Since it's Earth Day, I need get out the message that should be the #1 item on any list of things you can do to help the earth, and that is eat less meat. It's funny that people aren't quite ready to accept this as truth; not even Al Gore has acknowledged his own hypocrisy by continuing to eat meat while preaching how we all must make significant changes to stop global warming.
I'm the first to admit this isn't a binary issue. I didn't say "stop eating meat". I just want people to acknowledge that there is a significant environmental impact (water, air, land...) from raising livestock for food. Just like no one is going to stop driving altogether because car emissions cause air pollution, similarly I don't expect people to stop eating meat altogether. But awareness and admission is step one, and I don't even think we're there yet as a society. Maybe when Gen Y takes over; they are coming.
I'm the first to admit this isn't a binary issue. I didn't say "stop eating meat". I just want people to acknowledge that there is a significant environmental impact (water, air, land...) from raising livestock for food. Just like no one is going to stop driving altogether because car emissions cause air pollution, similarly I don't expect people to stop eating meat altogether. But awareness and admission is step one, and I don't even think we're there yet as a society. Maybe when Gen Y takes over; they are coming.
It is total hypocrisy by Gore et al. about the meat. It's like every has forgotten the great bovine flatulence scare of '92.
Private jet travel is another blind-spot. I saw on some list that Leo DiCaprio is about the only green-celeb that flies commercial rather than private.
On a related note, I find this carbon-offset program a total sell-out. Either you are polluting or you aren't.
I do get a kick of of the Google ad on this page: "Buy Buffalo Meat Direct"... At least it's organic meat.
Posted by: chrisf | April 24, 2008 at 05:22 PM