Save the planet, eat more meat.

[Woodznutz]

Plant more grasslands for grazing and hay, plow up less for vegetables.

 

[toobfreak]

Save the planet, eat more meat.​

The way I look at it, Woody, every steak I eat is just one less steer farting methane ruining the planet for Leftists.

 

[martybegan]

Plant more grasslands for grazing and hay, plow up less for vegetables.

Florida needs to figure out how to market Pythons.

Look what they did with lionfish in the Carribean.

Can We Control the Lionfish Population by Hunting and Eating It? - Hook, Line and Science

 

[task0778]

Save the planet, eat more meat.​

And no more farts.

 

[toobfreak]

Florida needs to figure out how to market Pythons.
Look what they did with lionfish in the Carribean.

I'm confident we will find solutions. There has to be a market for big, thick slabs of snake meat and as to the lionfish, is there a single preferred foodstuff or raw material mankind likes or needs that we have not hunted to extinction? Just look what we did to the Buffalo.

I'm confident we can eat our way out of pythons and lionfish.

 

[TNHarley]

Plant more grasslands for grazing and hay, plow up less for vegetables.

Carnivore for the win!
Carl in Michigan buttercup

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

The way I look at it, Woody, every steak I eat is just one less steer farting methane ruining the planet for Leftists.

So then you fart the methane while the energy that went into producing that one steak could have fed a dozen people on a vegetarian diet

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

Plant more grasslands for grazing and hay, plow up less for vegetables.

Thank you for that brilliant and thought provoking dissertation on saving the planet by eating meat. Clearly you have advanced degrees from the finest institutions of higher learning in the fields of ecology and the economic, political and scientific aspects of food production and sustainability of the earth. I’ll be waiting with baited breath for more pearls of wisdom from you beautiful mind , As always you rais the bar on the quality if discourse on the USMB

 

[buttercup]

Carnivore for the win!
Carl in Michigan buttercup

lolol... (I'm laughing because I rarely start these threads, but I get paged to them....which is pretty much the opposite of how a few folks on this site portray things.)

As for carnivorism....Nooope. I'll never go back to eating the decaying corpses of abused, terrified, tortured animals. Just the thought of it now is weird and gross to me.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

The way I look at it, Woody, every steak I eat is just one less steer farting methane ruining the planet for Leftists.

Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolu…

The book that started a revolution in the way Americans…

www.goodreads.com

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

Plant more grasslands for grazing and hay, plow up less for vegetables.

"Diet for a Small Planet," by Frances Moore Lappé, is a groundbreaking book advocating for a plant-based diet as a solution to global hunger and environmental problems. Published in 1971, it argues that the industrialized food system, particularly meat production, is wasteful, inefficient, and harmful to both human health and the planet. The book promotes the idea that a shift towards plant-centered eating, focusing on whole grains, vegetables, and legumes, can address food scarcity, reduce environmental impact, and promote social justice.

• Critique of the Meat-Heavy Diet:
  The book highlights the inefficiencies of meat production, showing how much land, water, and energy are required to raise livestock compared to growing crops for direct human consumption.
  
  
• Plant-Based Nutrition:
  Lappé demonstrates that a plant-based diet can provide all the necessary protein and nutrients for a healthy life, challenging the common belief that meat is essential
• 
  
• Environmental Impact:
  "Diet for a Small Planet" emphasizes the environmental consequences of industrial agriculture, including deforestation, water pollution from fertilizer runoff, and greenhouse gas emissions.

 

[MarathonMike]

The problem with Burmese python meat is they've found high levels of mercury in the meat. Not sure how big the sample size is, it probably merits a larger study.

 

[Woodznutz]

Save the planet, eat more meat.​

And no more farts.

True. Vegetables produce more gas than meat.

 

[Woodznutz]

I'm confident we will find solutions. There has to be a market for big, thick slabs of snake meat and as to the lionfish, is there a single preferred foodstuff or raw material mankind likes or needs that we have not hunted to extinction? Just look what we did to the Buffalo.

I'm confident we can eat our way out of pythons and lionfish.

Don't forget the Asian carp.

It does seem that we could feed the hungry of the world with these invasive species.

 

[Woodznutz]

So then you fart the methane while the energy that went into producing that one steak could have fed a dozen people on a vegetarian diet

Growing vegetables is destroying the planet.

 

[Woodznutz]

Thank you for that brilliant and thought provoking dissertation on saving the planet by eating meat. Clearly you have advanced degrees from the finest institutions of higher learning in the fields of ecology and the economic, political and scientific aspects of food production and sustainability of the earth. I’ll be waiting with baited breath for more pearls of wisdom from you beautiful mind , As always you rais the bar on the quality if discourse on the USMB

So, no rebuttal, just sarcasm?

 

[Woodznutz]

"Diet for a Small Planet," by Frances Moore Lappé, is a groundbreaking book advocating for a plant-based diet as a solution to global hunger and environmental problems. Published in 1971, it argues that the industrialized food system, particularly meat production, is wasteful, inefficient, and harmful to both human health and the planet. The book promotes the idea that a shift towards plant-centered eating, focusing on whole grains, vegetables, and legumes, can address food scarcity, reduce environmental impact, and promote social justice.

• Critique of the Meat-Heavy Diet:
  The book highlights the inefficiencies of meat production, showing how much land, water, and energy are required to raise livestock compared to growing crops for direct human consumption.
  
  
• Plant-Based Nutrition:
  Lappé demonstrates that a plant-based diet can provide all the necessary protein and nutrients for a healthy life, challenging the common belief that meat is essential
• 
  
• Environmental Impact:
  "Diet for a Small Planet" emphasizes the environmental consequences of industrial agriculture, including deforestation, water pollution from fertilizer runoff, and greenhouse gas emissions.

The problem is that people eat too much meat; over 200 pounds per person per year. I eat meat nearly every day but only consume about 50 pounds per year. Recalculate the problem using my consumption figure.

Based on obesity rates people eat way too much food, which of course means more food production, which means more abuse of the land by plowing, chemicals, water needs, etc.

There's a right way to do things, but people just haven't discovered it yet.

 

[Woodznutz]

Diet for a Small Planet: The Book That Started a Revolu…

The book that started a revolution in the way Americans…

www.goodreads.com

As a "revolution" the book is an abysmal failure. We are overeating and our health is declining.

 

[Woodznutz]

I did err in the thread title, which should have been,

"Save the planet, eat less food."

We could return half of our croplands to grasslands and forests if we ate less food. This would even improve the weather/climate.

 

[TheProgressivePatriot]

Growing vegetables is destroying the planet.

Really?? Please explain