3000lbs of CO2 Please, Medium Well

Do you care to reduce your environmental footprint? Really? How much do you care? Enough to reduce your consumption of meant?  Yeah, I didn't think so. You wouldn't want to actually work at saving the planet, like everything else in this paradise of easy living you figure that any goal worth having should be as easy as driving through the local fast food joint and picking up a greasy half pound of cowburger. Might as well widen your ass while you engage in two of the most CO2 intensive activities known to Americans, driving and meat consumption.

an official with the UK’s Environment Agency has acknowledged that
humans can significantly help stop global warming by adopting a
vegetarian diet.





Of course, the science could not be more clear. When U.N. scientists
looked at all the evidence, they declared in a 408-page report titled Livestock’s Long Shadow
that raising animals for food is responsible for more greenhouse gases
than all vehicles in the world combined. And scientists at the
University of Chicago showed that a typical American meat-eater is
responsible for nearly 1.5 tons more carbon dioxide a year than a vegan.

But you wouldn't want to have to actually change what you are doing. No, it is your birthright to do what is easy, to do what you have always done, to waste without thought to the cost to the environment and the future and to expect Somebody Else to come up with a solution that lets you continue to do these things. And you expect that solution to be cheaper too.

Indeed, study after study has shown that animal agriculture contributes
to global warming and environmental destruction, yet instead of urging
people to go vegetarian, most U.S. politicians and environmental
spokespeople just continue to hype hybrid cars, recycling, and
fluorescent light bulbs as solutions to our spiraling environmental
problems.



This is just not good enough. Vegetarians in Hummers do more for the
planet than do meat-eaters who cruise around in hybrids or collect
recyclable soda cans.

Well, you know what? It's not going to happen. Without you changing your lifestyle, getting rid of the car, eating and buying locally, cutting the animal products out of your life and turning off the lights, TV and clothing dryer, it just isn't going to happen.

Is your life really so good that it is worth it to piss on the future?



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