On Mon, 26 Oct 2009 23:01:11 -0400, Tom Francis - SWSports
wrote:

"People will need to consider turning vegetarian if the world is to
conquer climate change, according to a leading authority on global
warming."

"He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat eating
became unacceptable. “I think it’s important that people think about
what they are doing and that includes what they are eating,” he said.
“I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed
radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is
responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of
their food.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/new...cle6891362.ece

What next - taxes on farts?

The resource required to grow a pound of beef is a bad investment. The
beef industry is responsible for helping to deplete a large water
reserve under the central US, is responsible for generating huge
amounts of methane (which efficient farmers are now using to create
power).

Commonly known facts:

"To make a single pound of meat requires 16 pounds of grain and 2,500
gallons of water. The animal agriculture industry consumes 80% of all
plant life grown on this planet for consumption. Oftentimes they are
staple crops like corn, soy and grains, which provides double the
environmental strain (or 16 times the environmental strain,
statistically, than choosing the vegetarian option). 16 times the
chemical fertilizers and pesticides, and all the pollution associated
with transport of those grains and then transport of the meat as
well."


It's inefficient in a big way.

Do you have an argument with this?