| Archive for Active No-Carber Forums A veggie-free zone |
| Robert |
Diet vows to thin carbon footprinthttp://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20070611-104522-5864r.htmAttention chubby do-gooders, and maybe Al Gore. The global warming diet is here. Food choice affects climate change, says San Francisco chef Laura Stec, who has penned -- yes -- "The Global Warming Diet" with Eugene Cordero, a professor of meteorology at San Jose State University. The 250-page book is full of vegetarian fare, guides for relevant "discussion" parties, a few inconvenient truths and a cowcatcher full of scientific claims from the Union of Concerned Scientists, the United Nations and other sources. "One of the most positive effects you can have on the environment begins on your dinner plate," said Miss Stec, who calls her diet "global cooling cuisine." |
||
| Avalon |
Yay! I'm in, who's with me?  What?
|
||
| Avalon |
Yay! I'm in, who's with me? What?
|
||
| unintelligible |
What's really, really sad about this, is that a move towards a more "veggie" diet may be more "sustainable" in the short-term, however it is senseless for long-term sustainability. The higher population capacity that such a diet allows inevitably leads to greater population growth, where sustainability problems would quickly resurface.
I think the mere notion of making food choices based upon a notion like "carbon footprint" is utterly absurd. Such a notion implies that could be circumstances where "environmental sustainability" could take precedence over nutrition if the "healthier" foods if the "healthier" diet makes for a greater "carbon footprint". Of course, my diet consists almost ENTIRELY of factory farmed beef (I wish I was able to afford local pastured beef!), which leaves a high "carbon footprint" but trading in my health for leaving less "carbon footprint" is just an absurd notion.[/i] |
||
| EricaB |
Actually, I'm all for doing anything to minimize the impact of global warming. I just don't agree that we should all have to go vegan or vegetarian.
I find myself rather perplexed by (some) Vegan's hostility toward meat eaters; quite frankly, we're really on the same side in one thing: none of us want tainted, factory farmed meats with all sorts of hormones, mercury in the fish, etc, etc, ...And I'm all for treating animals raised for food in as humane a way as possible. No-one has ever answered this question for me, either; assuming the Vegans and Vegetarians get what they want-- all meat eating stopped tomorrow-- uhmm.... what then? Do we just kill off all the food animals? Free them and let them roam? Just my thoughts... |
||
| brklx |
The vegans and the vegetarians are munching their carrots on board Titanic. And so are we with our steaks.
No amount of eating correctly, recycling, bicycling or contributing to Green Peace will produce an iota of change. The present civilization is unsustainable no matter what. Even with Al Gore as president. The consolation is that as soon as the Earth gets rid of us it will take her relatively short time to recover and be beautiful and healthy again. Read World Without Us for technicalities. |
||
| cicley |
Earth can try. |
||
| Scout Finch |
I think this pretty much says it all. We are past the point of no return, and things are just going to get worse. The sustainability thing about diet works both ways, though. Too many vegans/vegetarians means too much population increase, but too many meat-eaters is unsustainable as well. The entire world can't go no-carb and survive as a species. Even if we cut oil consumption and use to zero, we are stuck with the effects of global warming, which will simply continue on its path of worsening climate change and environmental problems. Might as well pick the diet you want to follow. It's not going to make much difference to the ecological "foot-print." But at least you'll be a happier healthier person while you're here. 
|
||
| Avalon |
Said it before and I'll say it again-
Soylent Green
|
||