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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 7:50 pm Post subject: Veggie For A Day - 8th September 2008 |
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A leading UN expert has said people should eat less red meat if they want to help combat the effects of climate change.
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I made myself a Vegetable Curry tonight. All the Veg was from the Supermarket and not organic!!! ( Oh Janey Lee Grace wont be pleased )
So will I be pasty in the morning, or look even healthy if I continue to eat just Veg once a week? Or could I S*** through the eye of a needle in the morning?
Being sensible, I think it is a good idea to cut out Meat once a week? |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3609 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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It's very easy to spend days not eating meat - as I've discovered from having 2 vegetarian girlfriends in a row! |
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SantaFefan
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 11258 Location: top of the cliffs in Norfolk
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Posted: Mon Sep 08, 2008 8:57 pm Post subject: |
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... I'm sure there's a joke there somewhere Ian..
I noticed Jeremy questioning whether people would actually eat meat 6 days a week.. that made me think, I probably do..
Is this nomal? _________________ Johnnie Walker read out my message on Pirate Radio! 13/8/07
I have heard how radio should be. |
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Lord Evan Elpuss
Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 3417 Location: Cloud Cuckoo Land
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 8:36 am Post subject: |
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Aren't cows vegetarian, spending their days cropping the grass? Wasn't there some concern recently about how much methane they emit? Perhaps veggies should eat meat once a week to save the planet!! _________________ Lord Evan Elpuss, Your ideal job is a Lumberjack. |
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iwarburton
Joined: 08 Dec 2006 Posts: 2133 Location: Northumberland
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 9:04 am Post subject: |
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I'm still omnivore but my mother was latterly a vegan and remained in first-class health until shortly before her death at 82.
Ian. |
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Ian Robinson Site Admin
Joined: 11 Dec 2006 Posts: 3609 Location: Chorley, Lancashire
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:03 am Post subject: |
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Lord Evan Elpuss wrote: | Aren't cows vegetarian, spending their days cropping the grass? Wasn't there some concern recently about how much methane they emit? Perhaps veggies should eat meat once a week to save the planet!! |
On the other hand, if meat-eaters went vegetarian the cows wouldn't be reared and the planet would be saved (more fields for crops and trees too, which will help the environment and bring down food prices). |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:29 am Post subject: |
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There is a farmer in Devon- who is feeding cows with a special diet that makes them emit less than half the gasses of other cows- surely that's a much better way of reducing the impact of the gasses without reducing the food supply.
The answer to global warming is very simple - replace the rainforests. Everyone talks of more carbon in the atmosphere but there is no more carbon than there ever was or will be - it's just there is less oxygen in the atmosphere - so the carbon content looks higher as a percentage. The reduced areas of rain forest are also the reason why it's raining more here - rain forests are called that because they ( through transpiration) make it rain. Take away the rain forest- no transpiration - no rain - hence more water vapour left in the high atmophere which ends up raining on us..... If I were in charge - I'd plant 1000s of square miles of rainforest in the Austrialian outback - plant trees, it will rain, and make lots of oxygen ... yummy - we stay alive. We eat meat everyday - it's important to have a balanced diet. |
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RockitRon
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646
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Posted: Tue Sep 09, 2008 11:48 am Post subject: Re: Veggie For A Day - 8th September 2008 |
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mark occomore wrote: | A leading UN expert has said people should eat less red meat if they want to help combat the effects of climate change.
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And guess what - he's a vegetarian
I'm not sure about planting rainforest in the Australian outback, because it will take some years to "produce" the rain conditions, and they'll have died long before through the drought and lack of water anywhere near to sustain them - Australia has a severe water shortage, even round the coastal rim. But it does need to be replanted back where it belongs, in the Amazon and other tropical areas which have been cleared, and even here; I have been amazed to find that in areas which suffered forest fires in drier summers, no attempt has been made to replant. _________________ Ron |
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Rachel Guest
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 8:54 am Post subject: |
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I had a real moment of clarity last night- all about how to save the world ... but I was half asleep and now I can't remember what it was .. .. 'll try to recapture the thoughts and post them later... |
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mark occomore
Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK
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Posted: Wed Sep 10, 2008 6:03 pm Post subject: |
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Ian Robinson wrote: | It's very easy to spend days not eating meat - as I've discovered from having 2 vegetarian girlfriends in a row! |
Were they meaty or Green? |
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nod
Joined: 24 Dec 2006 Posts: 3558
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Posted: Sat Sep 27, 2008 9:00 am Post subject: Re: Veggie For A Day - 8th September 2008 |
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RockitRon wrote: |
I'm not sure about planting rainforest in the Australian outback, .......But it does need to be replanted back where it belongs.... |
Interestingly when we were there a few years ago they had a problem that where the trees had been felled in the past it had allowed the water table to rise (presumably the trees used the water and kept it lower) which had brought salt to the surface so before long they won't be able to grow anything unless it's salt tolerant |
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