Eating beef 'is less green than driving'

[WhollyHeretic]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/19/nbeef119.xml

Producing 2.2lb of beef generates as much greenhouse gas as driving a car non-stop for three hours, it was claimed yesterday.

Japanese scientists used a range of data to calculate the environmental impact of a single purchase of beef.

Taking into account all the processes involved, they said, four average sized steaks generated greenhouse gases with a warming potential equivalent to 80.25lb of carbon dioxide.

I no most of us have known this for years but it's nice to see it in regular media. It gets kind of frustrating that eating meat is so often neglected when speaking of the environment.

There is a discussion(sort of :eyes: ) already under way in GD

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1478482

[flvegan]

1. But who eats 2.2 lbs of beef or drives 3 hours

in one day????!!!!1!11 :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes: :eyes:

[Robeson]

2. Jeezus Christ, I'm good....

...I did a mental count of who the "meatheads" would be over there on your link before I looked. Clicked on it, and just as I visualized, there they were. The meat brigade never fails to disappoint...;-)

[LeftyMom]

3. It gets a little scary when you know what they're going to say in advance

Though not as scary as the idea that some of them believe what they're saying.

[Robeson]

4. Sad, isn't it....

...I think there's a whole lot of denial going on with some of those posters. But, it seems there always is with those type of threads.

[flvegan]

5. No, what's really, really sad...

is that if Michael Moore came forward and stipulated that going veg* was the best thing to do, or if Al Gore said that the biggest inconvenient truth was based in veg*ism, there would be...nah, nevermind.

I can't finish that statement without throwing up in my mouth a little bit.

[JudyM]

6. I've written to Gore and RFK jr about this - no mention during Live Earth that

meat consumption causes more global warming than does driving cars. Too controversial, I guess.