Save Earth – Eat Your Pet
Posted by Jim Hoft on Thursday, October 22, 2009, 5:54 AM
Here kitty, kitty, kitty…
The left now wants us to eat our pets to save the planet.
Gross.
Watts Up With That posted this disgusting pet-hating study:
The eco-pawprint of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser driven 10,000 kilometres a year, researchers have found.
Victoria University professors Brenda and Robert Vale, architects who specialise in sustainable living, say pet owners should swap cats and dogs for creatures they can eat, such as chickens or rabbits, in their provocative new book Time to Eat the Dog: The real guide to sustainable living.
The couple have assessed the carbon emissions created by popular pets, taking into account the ingredients of pet food and the land needed to create them.
“If you have a German shepherd or similar-sized dog, for example, its impact every year is exactly the same as driving a large car around,” Brenda Vale said.
“A lot of people worry about having SUVs but they don’t worry about having Alsatians and what we are saying is, well, maybe you should be because the environmental impact … is comparable.”
In a study published in New Scientist, they calculated a medium dog eats 164 kilograms of meat and 95kg of cereals every year. It takes 43.3 square metres of land to produce 1kg of chicken a year. This means it takes 0.84 hectares to feed Fido.
They compared this with the footprint of a Toyota Land Cruiser, driven 10,000km a year, which uses 55.1 gigajoules (the energy used to build and fuel it). One hectare of land can produce 135 gigajoules a year, which means the vehicle’s eco-footprint is 0.41ha – less than half of the dog’s.
They found cats have an eco-footprint of 0.15ha – slightly less than a Volkswagen Golf. Hamsters have a footprint of 0.014ha – keeping two of them is equivalent to owning a plasma TV.
Tastes like chicken.
Related… Fewer Americans see solid proof of man-made global warming.
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blr2449 commented:
What the h*ll are these people smoking??? They make my blood boil. I’d love to come face to face with one of them.
Lorraine commented:
I knew the left was sick but this one takes the cake.
Just let them try and take my cats from me….they will meet the business end of one of my guns…..and that is a fact!!!!!!
Betsy Ross commented:
What a bunch of Grinches. They can’t stand it when others are happy and having fun and enjoying a simple pleasure like owning a pet. They need to mind their own miserable business and leave the rest of us alone.
ReNae commented:
A modest proposal at best!
Andreas K. commented:
What about the eco-footprint of humans?
I say we eat 50% of the human population. Solves all the problems.
No more overpopulation
No more hunger
No more “CO2 problems”
The ultimate solution!
joe buzz commented:
Dang, I have a Land Cruiser and a dog. I must admit, I would not want to eat the Cruiser. What if my dog retrieves birds that we both end up consuming? Is that OK?
John commented:
This is actually hilarious, because the study pits environmentalists against the PETA people (and gives the sarcastic “People Eating Tasty Animals” moniker an entirely new legitimacy on the environmentalist left).
GregZ commented:
These people are nuts.
myna commented:
When will these craziness ends? Will we be hearing any time soon from crazy professors to eat you own kid to reduce CO2?
quite googleable commented:
Let’s stop making art, music, books, movies, tv. No more sex. Sexual activities of humans and human pets should be stopped. Not just protected sex but no biological energy should be expended cause of your carbon penis-print.
jim m commented:
Gee. How much energy would be saved if all the environmentalists all just went and offed themselves? Maybe they could all do the rest of us a favor.
Next we’ll see Korea asking for carbon credits for all the dogs that get eaten there. Maybe there’s an opening for the Goracle to invest.
Stephana commented:
Can we grind up these leftists and use them for pet food? Or are they to full of gristle to make a tasty meal for fido.
BackwardsBoy commented:
The eco-nazis will use anything to guilt you into doing what they want you to do. They treat innocent, everyday activites as irreparable scars on a planet and point the finger of blame at us for, what, exactly, this time? Having a pet?
These people are seriously disturbed and need to seek out some professional help. They just can’t cope with Reality.
Trialdog commented:
I have 3 dogs, 9 cats, 4 horses, and a snake. I drive an F150; my wife drives an Avalanche 2500; my son, an Explorer. I offset all this by harvesting a nice buck last weekend. I’m good.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
I had a number of pets when I was a kid; a couple of chickens, a number of rabbits, pigeons, and some ducks. My parents, they being imports, ended up slaughtering and eating some of them, and I wouldn’t touch them after they had been cooked up.
These people can eat their pets if they want, but that’s something that I’m not going to do. Ever.
N. O'Brain commented:
“Hamsters have a footprint of 0.014ha – keeping two of them is equivalent to owning a plasma TV.”
But the picture’s not as good.
Magnum commented:
“I have 3 dogs, 9 cats, 4 horses, and a snake. I drive an F150; my wife drives an Avalanche 2500; my son, an Explorer. I offset all this by harvesting a nice buck last weekend. I’m good.”
QFT!
I personally don’t hunt. I don’t like killing animals. I don’t mind if someone else does it, because some non-domesticated animals taste pretty damned delish.
I wonder if these liberal hippy douches checked the carbon footprint of a
fuck-trophy*?*
Fuck-trophyis baby conceived under the notion that it’s such a cool thing to do. “Hey look everybody, wefucked!Now we can take our little bastard to Bonaroo and we can all play in the dirt and worship the lord god almighty Barack Obama!!”Geezus what’s the matter with the left.
Flounder commented:
I have six dogs, seven cats, and a rabbit. I drive an F350 4X4. My wife drives a Yukon, and we also own a 4×4 Bronco. Carbon footprint? We have a carbon crater!
lenny commented:
Looking at this another way, this “research” tells us that our vehicles have little impact.
anonymous commented:
These people are nuts.
Redwine commented:
The Left is getting loonier by the day. Or maybe with Maobama in the WH, they’re just letting it all hang out – at least until a Republican administration will hopefully end this nonsense and put these mouth-breathers back into their cages.
Jayne commented:
Eat your pets and have only one child. Sound familar? Worked so well in China.
IOpian commented:
H1N1 is getting all the press these days but I am far more concerned about this pandemic of idiocy that is infecting millions of these self-loathing carbon-sustained humans.
Linda commented:
Well since many of the liberals have replaced children with pets, I suspect this will not go over well. NOW they are stepping on the toes of the very people they claim to be protecting. This is the ultimate demise of all terrorist movements!
averagemelon commented:
Just another fine example of how effective it is to scare everyone into a general belief and then break it down into individual responsibility. Now, it’s our habit of owning and caring for pets. I’d like to know who gave these people money for this trash research.
Once we accepted the idea that carbon is a pollutant, everything under the sun now becomes suspect. I am certain environmentalists would like the entire human race to disappear so the precious earth can be “saved”. But then, who would care?
Dave commented:
I capture the CO@ that my dog exhales and farts. It is then pressurized to dry ice for storage and to keep our food preserved. Doing this for 4 billion years will yeild enough Co2 to put out a small brush fire and save California.
Do I still have to eat my dog?
Donna commented:
Domestic and wild cats kill millions of song birds each year.
We could do with fewer cats.
Stephen commented:
These morons never cease to amaze me. A true case of power, money and fame going to what minds they had. I remember when their UN ‘leader’ said we should slowly start cutting back on meat until we eat none. Then there was we need to pay for China’s emissions. Now it’s no pets. These people are self-loathing while power hungry.
Their emotions have clouded their minds to the point where the obvious is excluded at all costs. The long term history between CO2 levels and temperature (450,000,000 years ago…massive ice age, CO2 at 15 times the current level), the Little Ice Age, the 30 year solar cycle….all shoot the steel-reinforced concrete image of Man-Made Global Warming to a bullet-ridden sheet.
It’s the 30 year solar cycle stupid.
1850-1880–Warming
1880-1910–Cooling
1910-1940–Warming
1940-1970–Cooling (Ice Age Scare)
1970-2000–Warming (Warming idiot’s delight)
2000-2030–Cooling (Silence for the past few years)
Given the obvious pattern:
2030-2060–Warming
2060-2090–Cooling
2090-2120–Warming
Food for thought:
http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=010405M
“The only real constant about climate is change. It changes continually.”
Also:
http://www.klaus.cz/klaus2/asp/clanek.asp?id=73lC09VpjtyZ
“I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion.”
MUBulldog commented:
Next time I’m out on the local trail with my dog I think I’ll let him off the leash and let him one of these Birkenstock granola eating basterds and do my part for cause. Yes, I think that would make the dog and me feel pretty good!
Kevin commented:
I can just picture the lefties- “I’m up! I’m down!, I, I, I,…I’m sideways, uhhhh, global warming, No! uh eat your pets!, no wait, uhhh, PETA says ….uhhh, oh
shit, ummm SAVE THE WHALES!!! No! Green Jobs, saved or created!! oh, hell….I’m so confused”They are just throwing
shitagainst the wall and hoping something, anything sticks, then they will say that’s what they meant all along-Fuckingretards, the lot of ‘em!!!This comment was in the spam file because of vulgarity. I have to release these comments manually. Please respect the blog rules regarding vulgarity.
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chuck in st paul commented:
so…
Save the planet!
Eat a
pussy![ sorry, I couldn't resist that ]
TheScribbler commented:
Run Bo! Run!
Joanne commented:
Well, when I get my German Shepherd, I’d like them to come tell him that to his face.
These are probably the same people who believe it is better to not have children, but have a pet….so now the pet must be something we can eat. I thought these people were all vegetarians or something.
JP Ehrlich commented:
Time to call these atheistic buffoons out!
How many more interest groups will the left offend before there is a mass uprising by clear thinking conservatives..(and note: I did NOT say republicans…just look at the NY congressional race).
Kris commented:
How about we eat all the morons like these people? The world would be better off to have more dogs like my GIANT, carbon emitting Great Dane, than these people.
This may make us go out and replace our second dog that died last month with another GIANT Dane….
penny commented:
Sure, why not go all out Chinese and eat Fido. Hey, we have a history of mass starvation here, err, don’t we.
I wish these loons would do the right thing and sterilize themselves wiping any away possible little carbon booties from their guilty consciences. It needs to be suggested to them at every opportunity.
Highlander commented:
I’d like to see the likes of Brenda and Robert Vale do one final study on the eco-print of doing one of their self-serving, meaningless studies; come to the realization that they are harming the planet for no foreseeable gain and conclude that the only honorable thing to do is to sell everything they own, move to a commune, and live out their days in the primitive and squalid conditions they obviously envision for the rest of us – never to be heard from again.
djm1992 commented:
“Tastes like chicken.”
No, tastes more like
bullshitto me….Cargosquid commented:
Soylent green is Pets!
Actually, the “greens” should just commit suicide, collectively. I mean, if they really want to reduce the carbon foot print, they should fit their actions to their words…..
Soylent Green is …….Greens!
Cara commented:
I’d like to say something very profane here.
These people should just kill themselves and “save the planet”. Carbon footprint be damned,it’s their intellectual footprint that truly pollutes the nation.
olm commented:
OT/kind of…….if there is a place that is taking up the subject of the little 7yo girl in FL let me know.
In my area bussing was cut and hundreds of kids are now walking home from school. Hundreds. Parents are beging told it is not only due to budget but also for our own good because it is healthier, greener more sustainable. A litttle light needs to be shed here, imo.
tdiinva commented:
Olm:
I will shed some light on it. I grew up in Chicago and my parents chose to live right on the elementary district boundry line about a mile from school. Chicago did not and as far I know still does not bus students to local schools. So for rain, sleet, snow, hot, cold or any other weather condition I walked to school from kindergarten through 8th grade.
I was a couple of blocks from my high school though.
Rob Crawford commented:
What’s the eco-footprint of a Congressional staffer? Or someone living off the dole?
Guess Who commented:
A more intelligent response would be to use this to argue that driving a truck isn’t so bad. “Hey, it’s no worse for the environment than your dog.”
Sasja commented:
With all the hot air coming out of Washington and the environmentalist whackos, and if one wants to fall for the carbon footprint rubbish, then I agree. Those folks should off themselves and save the planet.
Robohobo commented:
When the SHTF, I plan on using Hippies and Greenies to feed my dogs. If it don’t kill them…..?
I read somewhere the line:
“Start a fire for Liberal and he’ll be warm for day, start a Liberal on fire and he’ll be warm for life.”
I liked that.
Ladue Pundit commented:
File in the “Do as I Say, Not as I Do” department.
These people are the kind who buy their meat butchered, and pay another butcher to abort their children.
They don’t have the guts to kill their own food, or save their own children.
They possess only the large mouths and egos with which to bully others.
Mike W commented:
O/T Change you can believe in.
Congress scrutinizes problems in home buyer credit
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091022/ap_on_go_co/us_homebuyers_tax_credit
J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, questioned the eligibility of some 100,000 claims out of the 1.5 million who have sought to take advantage of the $8,000 tax credit incorporated in the economic stimulus package enacted last February.
He said claimants include those who could possibly be illegal immigrants and that 580 people seeking $4 million from the first-time home buyer credit were under the age of 18. The youngest taxpayers receiving the credit were 4 years old, his office said.
mmm mmm mmm Chicago style fraud.
Nahanni commented:
I wonder what the “carbon footprint” of Brenda and Robert Vale is.
I bet it is bigger then my cat’s.
My cat actually serves a useful purpose as a “pest control device” (when she is awake that is). Brenda and Robert Vale serve no useful purpose either awake or asleep.
Thus the logical course of action would be for Brenda and Robert Vale to kill themselves in order to “save Gaia”.
flyoverland commented:
I hope the libs use this, because there are a lot more people who love dogs than love Obama.
naturalfake commented:
It’s fashionable!
HOW MUCH IS THAT DOGGIE IN THE WINE SAUCE?: A GREEN FRIENDLY RESTAURANT REVIEW
http://naturalfake.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/how-much-is-that-doggie-in-the-wine-sauce-a-green-friendly-restaurant-review
Russ, Just Russ commented:
To the Vales: eat me.
Betsy Ross commented:
To reduce carbon emissions we need to shut down the berkenstock sandal company as well as all those factories making anything with the footprint of the American chicken (aka peace sign) on them.
Solaratov commented:
So, I guess that saving the whales is out, now. After all, look at the size of those suckers! Their carbon footprint (flipper-print?) must be huge.
I guess it’s time to NUKE THE WHALES!!
backhoe commented:
My wife, the lovely Miss Emily, who grew up on a farm, with a farm service business, and who knows the difference between a pet, and livestock, were just mulling this over…
Let’s see…
On the one hand, we have our animals, who love us unconditionally, ask little, and would lay their own lives down in a heartbeat for us…
On the other, a gaggle of self-righteous busybodies who want to control our lives and meddle in every aspect of it…
Guess whose life is more valuable to us?
Touch my furry and feathered friends, and say hello to Mr. 12 gauge…
the struggler commented:
I’ll eat my cat when they start riding their chickens to work.
Don Rodrigo commented:
Let’s euthanize Brenda and Robert Vale and turn them into pet food.
Lucy commented:
Touch my dog and YOU will die!
Armando commented:
I am just waiting for them to tell us how much pollution comes from a baby, and then recommending we eat our own babies.
A_Nonny_Mouse commented:
Y’know … these guys are AGW believers…
I’ll bet their scientific rigor in proving pets have the same “eco-footprint” as automobiles is ALSO off by a few orders of magnitude…
rk commented:
It’s NOt themselves they LOATHE!
Tabbysmom commented:
I couldn’t believe this when I read it this morning!I was so MAD that I actually e-mailed PETA about it. I see that FOX is now carrying the story. I have a dog rescue,currently with 50 dogs. I couldn’t imagine eating ANY of them. I’m beginning to feel like we’re turning into China. This “green thing” propaganda is getting out of control and I fear that it’s not going to get any better under Oba-mao.Next, we’ll be turned into mandatory vegetarians.
joeswampy commented:
Eat our pets to save the polar bears.
Joey J. commented:
This just in: The newest cause of Global warming is “global warming hoaxes and hucksters”
Polly the Schnauzer commented:
Maybe we should gather the names of those who make suggestions such as this so that, when the ice age comes and no food can be grown, we can eat them.
Joe commented:
Why don’t we all just adopt a cockroach? How much carbon could one of those emit? It could be that a stimulus plan scientific study might be in order.
WTF commented:
What the hell are these people saying? Kiss my ass you stupid ass people. You make me sick. Animals have been around for thousands of years and the earth is still sustainable….do us all a favor and the earth as well…kill yourselves…you would doing the global community some good…we’ll give your family the carbon footprint credits for your death. Are people really this stupid? What the hell is our world coming to? GD idiots, I swear!!! Do some real scientific work and do a study on why statists and liberal ass people are all stupid…god these people piss me off!!
NortonPete commented:
I have carefully trained my three large breed rescued shelter dogs to carefully identify left wing wackos and to “offset” their carbon footprint by eliminating a wacko’s footprint.
Eric Seitz commented:
I say we kill 2 birds with 1 stone (sic) we kill and eat all the “green” people, They have always told us we should eat our greens.
Patrick Chester commented:
Hm. I really wish I had access to Youtube right now. Want to post the ending theme to the Excel Saga anime series. (Featuring Menchi the dog singing “So You’re Going to Eat Me” in a sad, sad voice. (Complete with someone translating it from Dog to Japanese!))
Mary commented:
On the list of contenders for the title of Public Enemy No. 1, Al Gore, with his Convenient–and very profitable–Lie, is close to the top. He’s made $300,000,000 from it since 2000. His LIE will be reaponsible for obama signing away America’s soverignty in Copenhagen this December, 2009
just weeks from now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMe5dOgbu40&feature=player_embedded
Driefromseattle commented:
Okay so if a dog expels that much CO2 (which feeds the plants that feed the prey animals that feed the carnivores and us) then I wonder if they’ve calculated the emissions from an Elephant? Does this mean we can now hunt Elephants and other big game with a clear conscience? What about those polar bears? I bet they give out a ton of CO2! Are you kidding me?
Newbie commented:
I can bet money on it that this will not get past the moderators but here it goes.
I understand the sentiments, I have two cats and I’m an environmentalist. I agree with a lot of comments here, and yes this one is over the top. If there is a global warming we don’t need to go to that extent to curb it.
All we need to do is to get to 350 ppm and everyone will be happy, and it is not as hard as you think. And even if there isn’t a global warming the planet will stay pollution free and as beautiful as ever. We will be very happy to have accomplished something, even if it is a placebo effect. If you know what I mean.
The Right Side commented:
This is just hilarious ! So typical of the lunacy of the academic leftist moronic libs.
I say we EAT THE LIBERALS ! I would suggest you grill them first with loads of marinade on a rottiserie. Then this imbecilic nonsense will cease…maybe.
The Right Side commented:
Does this come as any surprise from the revolting mouth of a LIB ? This is the same group that LOVES TO KILL BABIES…. Only follows that they would favor the eating of Fluffy and Fido !
Damned shame their parents didn’t eat them at birth… Darn it !
moron commented:
No problem!! Simply revert back to the insanity of the 70′s —-global cooling!! Get another pet and Land cruiser to help save the planet.
Odysseus commented:
I had to check twice to make sure I wasn’t reading The Onion. If these people want to save a planet, perhaps they should return to the one they came from in the galaxy of Loon.
Mike commented:
Just for fun, google “termites,co2″ They produce more co2 than all mankind
Laura commented:
I’m so glad this study came out! Now I have reason to ignore all similar information and dismiss it as stupid. I have a pug, a pom and a poodle, a canary, a mustache parakeet, four Nigerian Dwarf goats, and about a dozen chickens. I have adopted rescue animals and pick up strays and I regularly donate money to animal shelters, especially the no-kill shelters. I don’t CARE what an animals carbon footprint is! That’s stupid. Human and animal lives are more important than this Enviro-extremism.
James Gottlieb commented:
I guess that environmentalists must have a pretty big environmental impact. Maybe if we got rid of a whole lot of them it’d be a good thing for the planet? Just a thought.
Or, we could all try to live together politely and respect one another’s sensibilities and dignity enough to not publish tripe like:
“Stop driving your car, only use the trains and buses when absolutely necessary, try not to have any kids, die about the time you reach 75, give up toilet paper, only use x gallons of water a day, and please, if you don’t mind, kill your pets for Gaia. It’s the only way to save our planet.
Meanwhile I’ll continue to protest nuclear power and breed ponies near my ‘green’ mansion on the slopes of a pristine mountain protected from you by your own tax dollars (that I often go skiing on when I’m not jetting around in my Gulfstream 5 to take pictures of whales and dolphins) and it’s okay because I buy carbon credits that claim to plant some crappy trees somewhere else.”
Whichever.
sarh commented:
whats next cannabalism let them try to take my dog or my cat and watch what happens are they going to reach over my fence and start making my cats disappear one by one this is disgusting
nigel commented:
What is the carbon footprint of an eco-warrior? Maybe we could rid of a few of them instead…especially blogging eco-idiots!y
John Hayes commented:
I’m buying two more Labrador Retriever’s, another SUV, and because I live in the People’s dumass Republic of California I’m buying two more big screen tv’s. I hope my carbon assprint is gigantic.
Ilpalazzo commented:
I guess their argument isn’t really over global warming, but rather that hectacre of land is going to belong to China soon! I doubt either of these two fools doing the study has had a ‘pet’ rabbit or chicken. I grew up on a farm.. they aren’t pets! Besides, both of those animals poop in abundance.. wouldn’t THAT create bad eco-footprints? This whole eco-footprint nonsense is getting out of hand. The only way to keep the planet in the pristine condition they want is to wipe out the humans.. but oh.. wait.. who’s to say our major symbiotic contribution wouldn’t also be lost and have an impact on the rest of the animals? Sheesh. These people live in bubbles.
Steve commented:
Don’t know whether to laugh or cry. The Global Warming nuts are insane!
COMMON CENTS
http://www.commoncts.blogspot.com
Emilie commented:
I guess one might consider me a liberal since I am a registered Democrat although I would beg to differ with them….however, this craziness about eating ones pets is just that…total craziness! I have 4 pet cats & just might go out & adopt 2 or 3 more. I drive a van & hubby drives a pick-up truck. To heck with what the crazy people say about eating pets.
Tully commented:
Well, many parts ARE edible!
jd commented:
What is it they say?
Oh, yes….
There are NO LIMITS to Stupidity!
jd
Sreya commented:
Hmm, I wonder what the carbon-footprint is for conducting all that research and publishing their book.