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  • Posted by Herb7734 9 years, 3 months ago
    Chili. No! Not chili! I love chili. I love the hot kind, the mild kind, any kind. I love chili dogs. I love chili hamburgers. Kari, don't do this to me. I'll get chili lovers across the USA to rebel. I'll get a ten million person rebellion going. I was bred on beef. I lived through WW2 as a kid when beef was rationed and it was no picnic (pun intended.) I'm warning you, mama don't take my beef away!
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  • Posted by $ jlc 9 years, 3 months ago
    I agree with wiggys: the likely - and proper - response to this is to eat more beef. So, do your patriotic duty, Gulchers, and put the chili on to simmer.

    Jan
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  • Posted by $ Thoritsu 9 years, 3 months ago
    What a pile of nonsense, and no doubt this study was funded!

    Assuming CO2 really matters at all, how much CO2 is generated by cultivation and use of corn for ethanol in gasoline!

    Zealots and politicians are all the only voices heard.
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    • Posted by $ allosaur 9 years, 3 months ago
      Plants need CO2 to do the photosynthesis thing that to a plant produces oxygen as a waste emission.
      Oh, no! A waste emission! Down with oxygen! Concentrated, it explodes just like methane!
      Save the world! Down with--cough! ack! ack! gag!
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  • Posted by wiggys 9 years, 3 months ago
    as I see it the first thing the American consumer is going to do is send these guide lines to the Michele waste basket with the school lunches.

    making sure that future generations have food will be easy once the government gets out of the way. but do you think that will happen. it is said sometimes to get some hard headed individuals attention you must hit them upside the head with a 4x4. in the case of civil servants i.e. government employees or better said welfare recipients do that and you will only break the 4x4. these people who live with the misconception that they are our rulers will never change. on an ineptitude scale they will all register at the least 100 percent and in some cases they will go off the charts.
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  • Posted by jpellone 9 years, 3 months ago
    I read this hours ago and have been thinking of the right response.
    This may not be the right response but it is what I have!!!
    They want us to eat less meat so that means that there will be more cows farting to give us more gasses to promote climate change so does that mean that we need to kill all of the cows without eating them??? Anything larger than a squirrel must be exterminated!!! Including humans!!!
    They are idiots!!!
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    • Posted by $ jdg 9 years, 3 months ago
      If killing cattle for meat were banned, the vast majority of the cattle alive today simply would not exist. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if they soon became endangered.

      Look at African elephants. Most countries' laws "protect" them, and as a predictable result, the only populations doing well are in the few countries that have made them private property and allow them to be raised for slaughter. In the countries that "protect" them they get poached to death -- they're so valuable that it can't be stopped.
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    • Posted by 9 years, 3 months ago
      Less meat means less cows are needed, thus, less methane. But legumes would be a bigger culprit (hence my reference to my pot of chili).
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      • Posted by jpellone 9 years, 3 months ago
        LMAO!!! It didn't click till I read your reply. DUH!!!

        So does that mean they are going to outlaw beans too?

        I can see it now! They are going to come to my house and rip all my bean plants out of my garden. LOL
        Hell, I may as well be making moonshine!!!
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  • Posted by $ Radio_Randy 9 years, 3 months ago
    I don't see a problem...we should all be eating our way to prosperity with soy beans...just like the honorable Oriental cultures.

    Wait...where's Ma Chalmers when you need her?
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  • Posted by dansail 9 years, 3 months ago
    One of the scariest organization names in that article is the "Center for Science in the Public Interest". Right out the novel...

    So, what does it take to out these political organizations?
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    • Posted by plusaf 9 years, 3 months ago
      What might it take?
      Repeatedly interrupt them to ask how they MEASURE "public interest" or "public welfare" or whatever term they launch into the conversation.

      And then call them on it LOUDLY when they weasel-word away from actually defining the terms or their alleged 'measurements.'

      Nah, nobody's gonna do that...
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  • Posted by Lnxjenn 9 years, 3 months ago
    They base the concept of "more vegetable based diets"... well most vegetarians I know do not actually eat that many vegetables. A good friend of mine didn't eat onions, peppers, tomatoes, and I had to suffer through an olive pizza with her. I don't like a black with olives pizza! Most of the vegetarians I have known have been basically junk food junkies, with the occasional vegetables.

    I've seen this move from various agencies, pushing more vegetarian diets, and trying to "save the cow" or pig or whatever their animal of the week is! I think this is a more official push for it? Their stupid food pyramid shoves bread and grains down people's throats more than vegetables! Most people eat more grains than vegetables. Meat is good for you. Most people don't get enough healthy fats and protein. And Everybody is different and requires different types of diets. So pushing this is more of the whole agenda and move away from non-vegetarian diets. (at least that's my opinion).
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  • Posted by NealS 9 years, 3 months ago
    Does your Chili cause anyone to produce methane? If so it should it be banned or collected?

    I was wondering how difficult it might be to put up a gas barrier over herds of cattle to collect the rising methane and use it to fuel farm equipment, and provide energy for the farm. I can almost visualize large umbrellas in the fields where the cattle go to get out of the sun that collect the rising methane.
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  • Posted by amhunt 9 years, 3 months ago
    Ah yes, here goes the "Bozo Brigade" again. A bunch of fools that think they know more than they do. And they definitely think they know what is best for everyone.
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  • Posted by Ranter 9 years, 3 months ago
    Grasslands are a significant carbon sink. Grazing herds of cattle and/or bison help maintain and fertilize the grasslands. Grazing herd animals are essential to maintaining the environment. Eat more beef!
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