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Vegetarian's Rebuttal to 'The Carnivore's Dilemma'


Green Lifestyle  (tags: vegetarian, lifestyle, eco-friendly, CO2emissions, conservation, environment, globalwarming, greenproducts, organic )

Simone
- 13 days ago - treehugger.com
Last week's NY Times featured an op-ed entitled "The Carnivore's Dilemma"--an ostensibly enlightened response to the chorus of voices promulgating a vegetarian diet as a way to significantly reduce one's emission of greenhouse gasses (not least amongst
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Julie Z. (241)
Sunday November 8, 2009, 9:30 am
this states the problem clearly. 90% of humans will not willing give up eating meat or become vegan or even vegetarian. the desire and lust for animal flesh is stronger than the compassion towards animals or health or our enviroment.

if we want animals to stop being used for food no matter what your reason for it, it is going to have to happen by making raising animals for food ilegal. it will have to be looked at the same way as human slavery.
 

Chaz Gaily Berlusconi (248)
Sunday November 8, 2009, 10:15 am
Thannxxxx sweetie.. this is not an easy choice for people whoo have been raised on red meat... like here in South Africa we have huge meat consumption... it is much like stopping smoking and allowing the body to adjust to the shock..this will take time and people need to be educated on this subject.. indepth
 

Daniel Barker (2)
Monday November 9, 2009, 7:36 pm
Hmm..ssk them if they worship the ground George W. Bush walks on. If they call him a (unprintable) because of the war in Iraq and oil, remind them that it takes forty times the fossil fuel to produce a pound of protein from feedlot beef as does soybeans.
 
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