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2018-10-11 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

World must slash meat consumption to save climate: study

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Posted by Besoeker 2018-10-11 06:58|| || Front Page|| [11130 views ] Top

#1 A study published Wednesday in the journal Nature

How have the mighty fallen!

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-10-11 07:38|| 2018-10-11 07:38|| Front Page Top

#2 And here I read sometime back where man's domestication of methane producing cattle has help stave off the next ice age.

...an anticipated 10 billion people by 2050.

Didn't read the study on the crashing sperm count did they?

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-10-11 07:49|| 2018-10-11 07:49|| Front Page Top

#3
"The world must drastically reduce its meat consumption in order to avoid devastating climate change, scientists said Wednesday in the most thorough study so far on how what we eat affects the environment."

Oh, good grief. FOAD, already...

Posted by Dave D. 2018-10-11 08:24|| 2018-10-11 08:24|| Front Page Top

#4 But if we slash meat consumption there will be millions more cows left alive and farting to destroy the climate. Eat a steak, save the world!

Posted by Glenmore 2018-10-11 09:34|| 2018-10-11 09:34|| Front Page Top

#5 They'll have to pry my rib-eye from my cold dead mouth.

Sorry a$$holes go sell your chicken little act else where............I hear Venus is nice.

Posted by AlanC 2018-10-11 09:51|| 2018-10-11 09:51|| Front Page Top

#6 I thought they'd be promoting cannibalism as the solution by now.

Posted by rjschwarz 2018-10-11 09:54|| 2018-10-11 09:54|| Front Page Top

#7 Tut-tut-TUT!! *Harrumpf!! How DARE those poor, ignorant Third-World Peons aspire to an extravagant First-World Lifestyle of eating meat! Uppity savages!
(/sarc, if it was needed...)

Posted by magpie 2018-10-11 10:42|| 2018-10-11 10:42|| Front Page Top

#8 Wasn't there a caveat about this article being sponsored by the soybean industry? Thought the planet was in a cool-down period for the last decade.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-10-11 11:21|| 2018-10-11 11:21|| Front Page Top

#9 They'll only be happy when we all stop eating altogether.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2018-10-11 11:44|| 2018-10-11 11:44|| Front Page Top

#10 I just had a burger for lunch. Hmm, good!

Posted by Spot 2018-10-11 12:56|| 2018-10-11 12:56|| Front Page Top

#11 Smoked pulled pork sandwich with Virginia BBQ sauce.

Posted by swksvolFF 2018-10-11 13:03|| 2018-10-11 13:03|| Front Page Top

#12 I thought they'd be promoting cannibalism as the solution by now.

Well, the Soylent Corporation wouldn't quite phrase it that way.

Posted by Procopius2k 2018-10-11 13:08|| 2018-10-11 13:08|| Front Page Top

#13 Given our population growth, yes. What bothers the hell out of me is that no one on either side is admitting that.

Posted by Woodrow 2018-10-11 14:23|| 2018-10-11 14:23|| Front Page Top

#14 AND pay a $250 tax per gallon of gas, don't forget that.