TCH News

Issue date: 11/5/07 Section: News

The vegetarian lifestyle is no longer just beneficial to fighting animal cruelty, but it can also save the environment, according to a current report issued by People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals.

Supporting PETA's claims, a United Nations report noted that livestock is responsible for 18 percent of the world's greenhouse gases. This adds up to more than all the world's automobile emissions put together. Auto emissions account for only six percent of the global greenhouse gases.

A recent letter from PETA to Al Gore, a noted global warming guru and winner of half of this year's Nobel Peace Prize, encouraged him to begin a vegan lifestyle and set the example of the most efficient way to minimize our meat footprint and thereby reduce the amount of methane gas released into the atmosphere.

"I guess Al Gore can keep flying around in his jet as long as he's not eating meat," said commentator Michael Ranazzisi after discovering that a carbon footprint is not as vital as a meat footprint.

PETA also claimed that recent studies in California showed that pregnant women near farms where methane gasses were emitted were more likely to experience a miscarriage than other pregnant mothers breathing fresher air.

Some manufacturers are competing to produce a product that will reduce the methane gas expelled by such livestock by up to 90 percent. Companies like Bean-O and Gas-X are looking to seal the deal and land a multi-billion dollar contract.

Even companies like Glade are looking to add a supplement to cover the smell of the gases that will still be emitted.

"I've been a dairy farmer my entire life, and haven't noticed anything weird about cow [flatulence] except they smell," said Michigan farmer Keith Smit. "Global warming is just another political ploy to get people alarmed and willing to give their money away," Smit continued. "The earth works in cycles, and we just happen to be in a warm one right now."

Margaret Hicks, a former General Motors employee, echoed Smit's sentiment when she said the problem is with "politics and money; they [politicians] can't even tell me if its going to rain this afternoon, but they know the weather patterns for the next 1500 years-- please."

Either way, most Americans are not ready to give up their big cars or big steaks, leaving most global warming activists shaking their heads and waiting for a 20-foot sea level apocalypse to take place.

Page 1 of 1

Article Tools