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If God didn't want us to eat animals he wouldn't have made them out of meat.

Feed corn grows a hella lot easier and produces a lot more than Silver Queen. It also tastes like crap. But if you want efficiency, it's what you should eat.

But I have cut down my meat consumption, but only because spinach, broccoli, carrots, onions, radishes, and (separately) Vegemite on a rye cracker are sooo good (and filling too).

Where do these nannies find the time to dig up these statistics? Do they have pocket protector wearing nerds following a pig around making note of every move it makes or every time it passes gas?...

Sadie, are you sure that wasn't 1,500.3 miles?

Neo - 9.7. Udaman.

If you do get fat from eating too much meat here is the perfect exercise video to buy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izpU4YJ0ZAA

Reading this has brought on an urge for a ham biscuit. Railroad Cafe, here I come!

Vegetables and fruits are expensive to produce and transport too. That's because we insist on being able to eat whatever vegetable we want whether it is in season or not.

That's why the Brazilian rainforest keeps getting chopped down--some for ranchland, some to produce crops out of season for the US market.

For the LTE writer's argument to work, we also have to be willing to restrict ourselves to local produce grown in season.

Her real goal is to push a vegetarian, PETA friendly agenda.

I hate vegetables, and PETA is a collection of nuts who undercut what little credibility they have every time they act out in public.

So, I plan to keep eating meat.

Feed the homeless to the hungry, kill two birds with one stone.

Now, everyone get serious about this, no more mean-spirited clowning around.

Sadie : "Did you know that the average American contributes more to global warming through his or her food habits than though transportation?'

Well, I've been trying to get people to stop eating for years, but they just won't listen.

Maybe we could have the guvmint give everybody a house closer to the food.

Looking at the responses, I think Sadie better start thinking up a more efficient way to get our meat to us.

Shmeat.

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2008/04/invitro_meat

http://www.google.com/search?q=shmeat

So named as a combination of the words 'shit' and meat. I'll let Sadie try it first.

As for locally grown produce...I've never purchased corn, lima beans, or green beans from a grocery store. We probably freeze 250 pints of corn, 150 pints of limas, and can a bazillion quarts of green beans each year. I have trouble stomaching the store-bought.

The writer one briefly touched on one majorly important point, the point he should have made the main argument in her piece. Meat, especially cow meat, is extremely inefficient, in an environmental sense to make. You have to grow 16lbs of grain product to get 1lb of cow meat. And not only do you have to clear cut land for the crops, you also have to clear away land for the cows also. For pork, the conversation ratio is 8lbs to 1lb (i think) and for poultry it is 3 to 4lbs to 1lb. What this means is that this animals have varying degrees of efficiency in which they take in energy from the plant and convert it to body mass that is edible. Eating meat is extremely bad for the environment, but the transportation cost is not the most significant factor of that, and in fact there are ways to get around it, make the pollution minimum, by transporting the products by rail, for example. It is how inefficient it is in a way of getting calories that makes it bad, and the damaging effects it has on the environment through land use.

Darn this crap makes me hungry, off for a hamburger.
This letter has been in a dozen papers.
Save the planet out law newspapers, needless waste of trees.
Just kidding! Just tax the hell out of them.

The purpose of this LTE is to sell the writers book.

I think I'll grill me up a big old juicy steak tonight. Sadie can do us all a favor and eat more fiber. Starting with her book.

Of course we know this. We've known it for some time now. The rpoblem is that the global warming zealots hate fossil fuels. Fossil fuels have been made the enemy of the "we must save the planet" lunatics.

The lunatic left can't destroy Capitalism, and the standard of living that it, with the use of fossil fuels, has given us, by picking on hamburgers and sausage. People would laugh at this argument, but buy into the fossil fuels lies! Thank you government schools, and O'Bummer voters!