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I general I'd say I agree 98% with Grandy's post above.
HMMM THIS SOUNDS WELL-RESEARCHED I THINK I SHALL CHANGE MY ENTIRE LIFESTYLE!
I didn't realize that your appetite counted as a lifestyle.
Aye, but I don't think they'd raise one cow less if you stopped eating one cow.Whereas if you ate one cow, it would be one cow less for this polluted world.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan I missed you.
Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaan I missed that welcome.
I'm not worried about Swine flu, but that doesn't mean I'm not taking it seriously. It has the potential to be disastrous, but there's nothing I can do about it and we get these sorts of scares now and then. Unless the scientists tell us to change our lifestyles to avoid the virus, the best thing to do is forget about it and let them do their job. Oh, and make sure you go to the doctor if you get ill, since I guess there's a chance that catching it early will give you a better hope of curing it. That last bit's pretty uninformed, though, since I don't know much about swine flu yet...
And on the subject of vegetarianism, It's actually sensible to make the switch to veg and nuts and stuff. The amount of food it takes to feed a cow, for instance, just so that it can be turned into a few meals, means that meat is horrifically inefficient cnsidering the amount of people on earth. We're somehow coping now by allowing lots of people in other countries to starve, but if we really want to be able to feed everyone without enforcing reproduction limiting laws then we might have to become vegetarians sometime in the distant future.
Methinks they need to do a bit better of a job of keeping swine flu out of the US than asking Mexicans, "Have you felt sick lately?"
Did you know that a glass of red wine every day can improve your health?
IIRC mushrooms are like the only alternative nonanimal that has protein in it
Cow farts and burps are a massive contributor to greenhouse gases. No joke. I have considered becoming a vegetarian for this reason.