...and then we'll be back to the more interesting Africa stories. Every once in a while, I just have to have a veggie rant. So, here goes.
I admit that I've never sat down and watched "The Inconvenient Truth" all the way through. This is mostly because after she saw it Molly told me that I already knew all that stuff and it would probably just make me depressed. So, Gilles just so happened to have rented it and was watching it today, and I sat through a couple of parts. And it just made me so, so angry. Not because of the mess we are in with our environment and climate change. Not because our leaders refused to believe scientists who knew what was going on years ago.
But because Al Gore is a pompous hypocrite. He goes around the world informing everyone about the dangers of global warming and how we HAVE TO DO SOMETHING NOW !!!! to change it. But, he refuses to take the biggest step to reducing his environmental impact by going vegetarian.
"A 2006 United Nations report summarized the devastation caused by the meat industry by calling it "one of the top two or three most significant contributors to the most serious environmental problems, at every scale from local to global." The report recommended that animal agriculture "be a major policy focus when dealing with problems of land degradation, climate change and air pollution, water shortage and water pollution, and loss of biodiversity."
I know this might not be the most popular opinion to my meat and Al Gore loving lovely friends out there, but, dude....you just have to practice what you preach. Especially when you're standing for the health of the planet.
Be brave. Be honest.
Live your values.
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While I agree with the presumption that our climate is changing I do not agree with the underlying causes. I believe man is capable of damaging the environment but I also believe that our study of the subject is incomplete and therefore our conclusions thus far are flawed. Remember the earth is 4.6 billion years old in that span of ages it has changed countlessly. Man only has climate data for the last 100 or so years. We see indications of climate change in the fossil record but the interpretation of those signs is still very subjective in nature. Remember all of this data is coming from "Scientists" and weren't those the guys that said hey lets rush into the nuclear age without first discovering how we would eliminate the waste from nuclear power plants? I think they were. And remember also that Steven Hawking just recently recanted his theory on black holes and (I believe him to be the smartest guy on the planet) if he can be wrong well..... And while I most whole heartedly support your choice of diet and agree that there is much need for improvement in the cattle industry I just cannot get my head around eating rabbit food for the rest of my life. I am glad our ancestors chose to consume protein rich diets because that research (almost all of it)attributes our change to intelligent creatures to that very important change in diet. One thing that you and I are in total agreement on, is that Al Gore is a twit. By the way you never even ranted about his refusal to drive green vehicles or fly commercial.
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