Another Challenge for Ethical Eating – Plants Want to Live, Too in NY Times. I eat lots of beef and BBQ because I heard cows have a big carbon impact.
Another Challenge for Ethical Eating – Plants Want to Live, Too in NY Times. I eat lots of beef and BBQ because I heard cows have a big carbon impact.
I’m not a vegetarian because I love animals. I’m a vegetarian because I hate plants.
Absolutely! The Carnies can have the warm meat, I’ll fight the plants one bite at a time!
and tomatoes have feelings too!
they “scream” when cut according to:
http://www.life.com/image/76796742/in-gallery/25371/30-dumb-inventions
I just wrote an article about the impact livestock has on our planet. It simply is unsustainable because of (1) enormous carbon footprint (2) deforestation (3) consumption of food & water http://www.optimalfunctioning.com/featured/livestock-possibly-accounts-51-percent-climate-change-global-warming.html
In order develop and maintain credibility with those of us who know about raising livestock, it’s important to specify the livestock system(s) to which you are referring. Not all of us are trashing the planet. : – )
both studies/examinations of the data take livestock at large, which is already hard enough. Of course it is possible to raise for example cows without engaging in deforestation. At the same time you will still get all the methane from cows and you still need to provide them with water & food. I have read some preliminary studies that if you mix the cow food with garlic methane excretion is reduced by 30% and that would be something that can help immediately. At the same time I think those are not addressing the core issue. We can really do without them and according to these data we’d be better off without raising, keeping, and consuming them.
[humor buzzkill!]
The production of red meat is also a big problem for the environment: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2007/jul/19/climatechange.climatechange
It turns out that tomatoes are carnivorous.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/attack-of-the-killer-tomatoes-1834638.html
Perhaps this point could be better explained if it were put to music…enjoy!!! : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmK0bZl4ILM
Veggies are undercover zombies. Yes, they are. I’m serious! Look the way they walk…
I did read something about ‘fruitarianism’ – you only eat the bits of plants that you can harvest without killing the plant. Each to their own…
As a sci-fi geek, I’m eagerly awaiting eating vat grown protein and nutrients 😉
If you don’t want plants to suffer, then become a veggie! Why? The amount of plant foods that go into making a pound of beef or pork is astounding. Thus, as a veggie, you’ll eat LESS plant-based food than any meat-eater. Every *real* environmentalist is a vegetarian. That’s why Al Gore, etc., are such shysters.
I’ve been vegetarian for about 25 years, not because I care about the animals, but because eating meat makes me ill. I find it frustrating watching these climate conferences as the industrial and developing nations bash each other when the single biggest thing that would make a diifference is if people stopped eating meat and put an end to the (as Hans Rippel said in a previous comment) unsubstainable farming of livestock.
I think eating meat is as normal as eating in and of itself. Now, is there a better way to go about “farming” our meat? Perhaps.
On a lighter side, there is a possibility that my carbon and methane output can be worse for the environment than any cow’s! Is it possible that Gasex can save the planet for us?
The Vegans are eating animal food.. Love animals, stop eating their food 😛
If you have ever attempted to grow vegetables in the proximity of vegetable eating animals and insects, (there are no places to do that outside of a greenhouse, by the way) your perspective changes. I get why people adhere to vegetarian, vegan, and even organic food choices, but until you know what it really takes to get food from the ground to the table by doing it for yourself, you don’t know a thing about how food gets from the ground to the table.
I always hear Tom Waits singing:
“There’s always some killin’
You got to do around the farm”
when this subject comes up.
That was a neat article. One of my favorite topics in high school biology was plant hormones, which completely astounded me. Plants are pretty intricate little critters.
Consuming animals and animal products is an outdated way of eating. There’s just no way of feeding an ever growing human population by wasting a humongous percentage of arable land on growing corn and soybeans to feed stupid livestock. At the end of the day, we put far more protein and calories into those animals prior to slaughtering them than we subsequently get out of it by eating their meat. The sheer waste of food is just staggering.