Why beef is the new SUV - by John Sutter for CNN. He, we assume, is a writer. He was clear in how much he loves the beef at Snow's BBQ but reading got tiresome after that as it was obvious he was going to hammer a simple point and I didn't want to waste any more time on it.
It takes more energy to eat native beef than to grow soy and turn it into something which seems beef-like. If we eat soy products (e.g. tofu, etc) then the world will smile and we will start singing that Coke song.
Blow that simple point into a whole article and you, too, can work at CNN. Presumably Sutter only just learned of it. Hoo-rah.
My knowledge on the subject comes initially from some Ecology courses in university and later reading. That was in '73 or '74. So how is it people are only just coming to learn of this stuff now. Why weren't they taught.
We will sing that Coke song if we don't, once again, ignore the problem of population control. You can change menus, food products, or any damn thing else you like but you can't feed your people when you have too many of them. It's why the GOP doesn't care if the poor starve; they will just get more.
The premise in general is people are wasteful and consuming beef products is part of that. The first part is true but the latter has little relationship. When the population is more or less in-balance, it won't make much difference if some prefer beef ... well ... except for the cow.
This may yet be the most cynical approach yet to climate control as the general thinking is 'screw everything else wrong with climate management and we fix it by becoming vegetarians.' The only creatures made happy by that are cows ... and some vegetarians ... but I repeat myself.
There's so much knee-jerking going on in reaction to anything that news has progressively less value for much of any real purpose beyond entertainment. In the same edition today, CNN featured an article on their 'front page' about 'Undressing Kim Kardashian.' So, 'Stop Eating Beef' wasn't such a good article but 'Undressing Kim Kardashian' couldn't have been anything but tabloid crap. She has not, to my knowledge, ever done anything.
(Ed: eat her?)
Come on, Mister Ed. Even a horse should have better taste than that.
It takes more energy to eat native beef than to grow soy and turn it into something which seems beef-like. If we eat soy products (e.g. tofu, etc) then the world will smile and we will start singing that Coke song.
Blow that simple point into a whole article and you, too, can work at CNN. Presumably Sutter only just learned of it. Hoo-rah.
My knowledge on the subject comes initially from some Ecology courses in university and later reading. That was in '73 or '74. So how is it people are only just coming to learn of this stuff now. Why weren't they taught.
We will sing that Coke song if we don't, once again, ignore the problem of population control. You can change menus, food products, or any damn thing else you like but you can't feed your people when you have too many of them. It's why the GOP doesn't care if the poor starve; they will just get more.
The premise in general is people are wasteful and consuming beef products is part of that. The first part is true but the latter has little relationship. When the population is more or less in-balance, it won't make much difference if some prefer beef ... well ... except for the cow.
This may yet be the most cynical approach yet to climate control as the general thinking is 'screw everything else wrong with climate management and we fix it by becoming vegetarians.' The only creatures made happy by that are cows ... and some vegetarians ... but I repeat myself.
There's so much knee-jerking going on in reaction to anything that news has progressively less value for much of any real purpose beyond entertainment. In the same edition today, CNN featured an article on their 'front page' about 'Undressing Kim Kardashian.' So, 'Stop Eating Beef' wasn't such a good article but 'Undressing Kim Kardashian' couldn't have been anything but tabloid crap. She has not, to my knowledge, ever done anything.
(Ed: eat her?)
Come on, Mister Ed. Even a horse should have better taste than that.
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