BUT WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF EVERYBODY STOPPED EATING MEAT?
|| By FITSNEWS || You’d think the global warming crowd would be zipping it (again) this year … but no. In addition to finding validation of their view in every meteorological measurement (thus making them impossible to debate), they’re also continuing to find new reasons for the
The latest? Your diet. No seriously … according to a 571-page report issued by U.S. president Barack Obama‘s 2015 Dietary Guideline Advisory Committee (DGAC), what you eat is causing global warming.
“A diet higher in plant-based foods, such as vegetables, fruits, whole grains, legumes, nuts, and seeds, and lower in calories and animal based foods is more health promoting and is associated with less environmental impact than is the current U.S. diet,” the report concluded.
Wait … what?
“Current evidence shows that the average U.S. diet has a larger environmental impact in terms of increased greenhouse gas emissions, land use, water use, and energy use, compared to the above dietary patterns,” the report continued.
Really? You don’t say …
We wonder: Is this why Washington bureaucrats have supported raping the environment in early-voting Iowa? Oh wait, we forgot … that’s part of the government’s spectacularly failed ethanol experiment.
The good news? According to the report, “no food groups need to be eliminated completely to improve sustainability outcomes over the current status.”
Whew! That’s a relief!
So … exactly how full of crap is this latest enviro-Nazi nonsense? Well, according to Chip Knappenberger of The Cato Institute (who crunched the numbers), if every American became a vegetarian tomorrow, “it would reduce greenhouse gas emissions by about 300 mmtCO2 per year.”
And what impact would that have? Ummm … yeah. Not much.
“If (every American) were to stick to this vegetarian diet between now and the end of the 21st century, we’d collectively help to keep global temperatures two-hundredths of a degree below where they’d otherwise be,” Knappenberger concluded.
Two-hundredths of a degree?
“Seems like even if I were worried about future climate change and wanted to ‘do something’ about it, ridding my table of steak wouldn’t be high on the list,” Knappenberger concluded.
Lucky for him (and carnivores everywhere) the whole thing is a hoax.
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Everything causes Global Warming.
You are, of course, correct, to hear them tell it…But for FITS to admit who they are is the NEWS, here…
Thank God.
Bi-Polar FITS…one day he hates Republicans…the next he says something his normally best-friend liberals consider blasphemy…
PS: FITS..even though the modern liberal and the NAZIs have MUCH in common, historically and practically…the leftwing gets REAL mad when you call them what they are…
Consider who you appeal to, and publish for…it’s not a good idea to offend your most loyal fan-base…
Get away from the parties, Be a American.
PS: FITS..even though the modern liberal and the NAZIs have MUCH in common, historically and practically…the leftwing gets REAL mad when you call them what they are…
Meanwhile, Republicans in OK are rewriting AP History to overshadow our ugly past and make America seem more exceptional? That’s sounds more like Nazi Germany to me.
STFU you delusional idiot…You, and ISIS, claim your history of hatred didn’t happen, so why does it need re-written…???…Dumb@$$…
So, Republicans in OK aren’t putting three Reagan speeches into the books and omitting certain FACTS? You really are a damn fool.
You sound like a Delusional Kook-job, still P!$$#d that Reagan won……
And why do you ALWAYS want to deny that the Slave-owners were ALL DEMOCRATS and those men who freed them were REPUBLICANS???…And the South did not jettison segregation – and begin to move forward – until the GOP got a foothold in the South?
Dumb@$$…history denier…
Excuse me. The subject is re-writing history books and getting rid of Jefferson, them putting fucking Rush Limbaugh in there. You down with that that, feeb? Holy shit, you ain’t anywhere near right.
Mother Jones Much???
It is a FACT that they tried to do that. I don’t give a shit who first reported it. If is was Mother Jones, fine. If it had been American Spectator, that would have been fine as well. Truth is truth, idiot. And it is beyond fucked up to try to deprive students of information on one of the founding fathers who was also a POTUS.
Reagan was one of the greatest Presidents, for many reasons. He still did fucked up things. Almost all of them did.
LMAO…You criticizing Reagan…Now THAT’S Rich…
Truth is: You are F*#ked up…and I’m sure you were F*#ked Up in the 80s, too…
And like EVERY F*#ked Up Liberal…you have to find somebody else to blame because you have BIG F*#kin’ problems…believe me, It ain’t Reagan’s fault…LMAO…
Reading comprehension problems again? You completely missed the first sentence. You know, the one that says “Reagan was one of the greatest Presidents”.
“He still did fucked up things”
The nation in 2015 is F*#k#d up…
Reagan lead us to GOOD things, pulling us out of a Cater-based malaise that was as bad as the one we’re in now.
Only a F*#King idiot would make the assertion that Reagan F*#ked up anything…and only a F*#king Dolt lapdog (check out a mirror) would defend him…
I do not worship human beings.
First ISIS, now I’m pissed Reagan won? Dude, I wasn’t even old enough to vote…with all the young girls running around, politics was the last thing on my mind, Pops. I see you’re the old, white bullshit artist. Btw, some history for you: Dixiecrats aren’t around anymore and have been replaced by you Atwater loving white asshats.
You read way too much into this, and grossly misalculate who is pissed about what. But that’s only part of what you get wrong on a regular basis.
Squeal Pig, Squeal…LMAO….
Real funny since you’re the fool with a vise on his nuts.
Actually, it is perfectly normal not to be in total lockstep with any one ideology or political party, or special interest group. That’s why you are such a total freak.
He, like you, is diametrically opposed to himself on any give day…that’s F*#ked up…and it’s because you have core or commitment to a system of values…Whatever serves your selfishness is what you do…
I give wellover half of my time in service to others, and spend a good bit of my money on that as well. And I don’t give a damn if I am helping a Republican or a Democrat, a conservative or a liberal. Maybe that’s selfish in your book, but your book is full of shit.
I never voted for Obama, not even once. About 95 percent of all the pols I’ve supported over the past 10 years have been Republican.
You dislike me intensely because I don’t think EXACTLY like you, on every single issue. That is not normal. That is the realm of fanatics and dangerous zealots. People who simply do not care how corrupt politicians are, as long as they have the right letter after their name. And you insult our intelligence by claiming there is virtue and honor in that.
Brag much?
That’s just what you call it. Like with everything else, what you say about it has no connection to reality. What it really is is stating fact, to counter your idiotic spin.
You know who could use a diet? Curtis Loftis and his sidekick in the treasurers office. Those two have put on quite an excess of girth over the last year.
Curry and Tandoor bread will help that issue.
A diet will not help his soul. He sold his soul to the devil. Satan has spoken to him and he listened. Satan and the devil will meet LOFTIS . NO DOUBT ABOUT IT.
May God have mercy on your tortuered soul.
I prayed for you soul at church today Kev/Curtis. You will need all the prayers you can get because your sins are out of the closet. Transparency and Accountability are more than buzz words Curtis. They mean something.
A “man” that lies so easily is a man to pity. May God bless your soul.
Be quiet curtis. Go play with your “buddy”, Woody!
No worries, the soon to be unemployed will all rejoice.
Curtis GAVE his soul to Jesus and is the most honest person in state government. Just because he is successful in keeping our retirement money from being stolen he is castigated. People of SC let’s stand behind Curtis and support him. LOFTIS FOR GOVERNOR.
Amen RogueElephant…but I think you’ll find you are dealing w/ some of the most unholy and dirty brand of people…
It’s sad that we have a president – who they worship -who will not denounce parts of a hate-based religious sect that kicks babies to death and beheads adult Christians…
But the LOW LIFES of the Democrat Party will viciously assault Curtis Loftis because he dared stand up to their theft of our money and their abject corruption… like he promised he would….
Grand Tango,
These are obviously republicans that are connected to the SC Investment Commission. They are simply protecting their high salaries and unfettered access to $27 billion dollars of retiree money.
I don’t believe their jobs or salaries are in danger Curtis. Do you know something differently? What are these evil public servants doing to protect you from taking away their jobs? Nada bro, this is your tinfoil stuff.
Democrats HATE Loftis more than “insiders” milking the system…
Democrats are scared to death of Loftis…because if he ran for governor, he’d actually Slap em upside the head AGGRESSIVELY..Instead of passively, as Haley has done…waiting for fight to come to her…instead of being on the offensive, as Loftis would be…
And if Loftis ran for Gov…it means another 8 years w/ NO chance for a D in the Governor’s Mansion…
Not to mention: If it is Republicans, they belong in the Democrat Party. And Loftis OUTS them…They are the weak link for Republicans…and they open the GOP to legitimate criticism…I’d love to Loftis run them out of the party…instead of placate them, as Haley-Sanford does…
Curtis knows a thing or two about OUTing ;)
I’m a big fan of Curt Loftis, myself. We have cordial communication from time to time. He’s even publicly encouraged me on a couple of issues. Yet you always claim I only side with the Democrats. So, if only Democrats are out to get Loftis, what does that say about your logic? Not to mention your honesty?
Whoever is trying to destroy him at this time may be Dem or Repub. That only matters to people like you, who will not admit that there is very little difference between the parties in this state anyway — at least as far as corruption and violation of the public trust is concerned.
If the wind blows one way, or someone does not immediately discount your nut-ball conspiracy theories, you attach to them…It’s your bond w/ FITS, who can be almost as delusional as you, at times.
That said: all Loftis would have to do is slap your wrist because you get out of hand on him, and you’ll go bonkers on him, too.
You see: It’s not moral clarity or a set of core values that motivates you. And that’s my big problem with you, and those like you.
Most of you Liberal-Tarian types move for selfishness or envy. When you don’t act for what is right, but for personal gain and grandeur (see FITS) you cannot be relied upon.
Hope that clears it up.
You could not possibly clear up anything for me, fool, because your mind is obviously a murky, messy, sleazy, stanky snake pit. I’ve been fully in support of Loftis ever since he has been in office. You really know nothing at all about who and what I am. All you offer is projection. From an obviously broken projector.
Curtis can’t be governor though. His scandals are slowly but surely coming out. His closeted misdeeds are no longer rumors and are now confirmed. His wild spending of taxpayer dollars on his office makes him a hypocrite and RINO. His ‘issues’ with his former campaign manager (the real Kev) have come to light. His BNY issues are far from over as new information from 2013 – 2015 will be made public in the coming months. Whistleblowers have spoken to investigative entities. The chicken is coming home to roost. Stay tuned.
Oh ye, that bow to Satan with your lies. How you damn your soul and for so little.
My wife and I haven’t seen Curtis at church in years. Has he switched churches?
It looks to me like Loftis has a bunch of middle school kids after him. This tangled bullshit they keep posting is childlike gibberish.
Makes his enemies look like teenyboppers.
Facts are facts no matter how Curtis decides to twist them. The truth will come out swiftly and very soon.
Let us hope you are well paid for you villainous comments.
There’s a word you don’t hear everyday. Sounds like something you would pick up in a British parliament. Curtis was a page-boy there back in the day.
You could use a healthy diet of STFU.
Obama, like the SC General Assembly, is full of shit.
Woman arrested for maiming after man claims girlfriend tried to bite his penis off …. But women in South Carolina do not commit Criminal Domestic Violence, right? ( sound of crickets chirping inside the Statehouse ).
A night out drinking and an argument with his girlfriend nearly cost a Tulsa man his penis.
Officers responded to a Tulsa hospital early Thursday morning where a man claimed his girlfriend attacked him while he slept.
Amber Ellis was arrested for maiming and assault with a dangerous weapon.
According to the police report, the victim said he and his girlfriend were out drinking and began arguing while walking home “about how needy she had become.” The couple verbally fought in the apartment until the victim told police Ellis stormed off, slamming the bedroom door.
Police say the victim fell asleep on the couch only to wake up to find Ellis “biting his (penis) off.”
**** Is this what GrandTango did to one of his male lovers … tried to bite it off???
And the relevance….
The woman is a meat eater.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYFKcMa_Ek
Tulsa, South Carolina? Never heard of it.
If carnivores are the problem, I say polar bears are the first to go.
Did you see the out takes from Al Gores movie? His helicopter camera crew herded that polar bear into the ocean … Killed it.
Why is it you have to post inane shit every two minutes?
He’s just trying to stay on topic.
I like all foods, equally, and without prejudice, no matter how poorly cooked it may be. I have lived in the North and know how important this attitude is to survival.
I agree, life is important.
“failed ethanol experiment”
Corporate welfare for Archer Daniels Midland and ilk. Corporate welfare for big ag in the GOP “heartland.”
The whole ethanol thing IS pay back to Aurther Danials Midland, the largest single private contributor to the democrat party … yes, even bigger than the Koch Bros.
If the BATF regs. we’re changed to let farmers distill on their own farms, then farmers would have cheaper fuel, and Gruberment could leave the national fuel system alone.
Bob Dole (R-ADM, ret.)
Info source? This is interesting because ADM donates FAR more to Republican candidates than Democratic. If your statement has any foundation to it, it probably more about how much ADM donates IN TOTAL vs who they donate to.
ADM donates to both parties, especially in the bread basket/middle west. (ChicagoLand … http://finance.yahoo.com/news/fortune-magazine-ranks-adm-most-160000635.html )
ADM has several lobbyists inside the beltway and ADM does donate/payoff to whichever congress critter they need to when something they are interested comes up. ADM also has scores of PACs that they “donate”.
ADM is The Epitome Of The Belt Way Bandits. ADM is Totally involved in Gruberment and can hide their push-me-pull-you payola/bribes/vigorish payouts easily … They are “wired in”.
ADM is at the heart of the “progressive” elitist-Fascist movement(s) to milk and bilk the country.
ADM also plays the Commodities Markets like a violin … using “insider information” from the congress critters and their greedy staffers. ADM was the power behind getting Hillary’s cattle futures deal set up …
Hmmm. You are all over the place on that one. You say they are the heart of the progressive movement, and yet they donate heavily to both parties? Something does not parse there. But you are right as far as their support of the planet-killers Monsanto and Dow. Them, the FDA, the NAACP, and the UN.
“… they donate heavily to both parties? Something does not parse there. …”
Mmmmm … and you don’t see this from any other big name benefactors of the “progressives”? You don’t think ADM could possibly manage their resources in order to promote an agenda?
Come on, Buz, it happens all the time … consider Berkshire Hathaway in which Warren Buffett promotes and pays off for BummerCare (to enrich his insurance biz) and Charley Monger pays off the tea parties and most “conservatives” to get that railroad/ice cream/co-cola/credit card/energy/retailing businesses in good stead with stockholders/taxpayers.
Maybe so.
“Corporate Welfare” pales in comparison to what the Democrats nurture and pay for to the poverty pimps in this country. What you pay for is who is your friends, I had rather be financing more farmers than more poverty pimps.
Typical. Just make shit up, throw it out there, see what sticks.
If you would take time to check, you will see that it sticks. Different political groups finance different constituencies, and just run the numbers sometimes on what is spent on “corporate welfare” and what is thrown at the “poverty pimps” and their constituency in this country.
Tell med what programs are included when you talk about “poverty pimps” and we might be able to compare. Then, tell me which groups among the poor you are willing to cut off, I mean, let them eat cake. Children, the elderly, disabled? Let’s hear the specifics
Homeless and/or disabled vets? Most of these types have no love for them either. Truth be told.
Why don’t you you just cite the numbers instead of “running them”. I suspect they were “run” by someone like Heritage, Cato, or some other Lying Liars
Didn’t I see where Al Sharpton owes like $400,000 in back taxes. Looks like poverty pimping pays off. How many farmers make enough to owe that much in taxes ? And besides, a farmer actually works for what he makes.
You mean “works for his welfare”? Maybe, maybe not. They also get paid of not growing. A large percentage of people who receive means tested benefits work also, starting with the largest income transfer program, EITC. Hit the pause button on your dog whistle, will ya?
So he’s a rich shmoe trying to get out of paying his taxes. Asking for corporate welfare, I guess. There’s really no excuse for him, on several levels. Doesn’t mean everyone who gets assistance is a leech. Or that all rich people are “job creators” who deserve special treatment.
Like those corn whores in Iowa.
Two things: This whining and arm waving from the global worms is just a setup for more EPA stupid regulations and more taxsucking … And in this country, anyway, the biggest polluters are Gruberment, state and fed.
“Never in recorded history has increasing taxes changed the weather.”
Never in recorded history have there been people egomaniacal enough to think they can change the weather!!!
The stupid in SC seems to know no bounds. What do you do with people, who when shown indisputable facts just shut their eyes, stick their fingers in their ears and go “Deeeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrp!”?
We’re just trying to stay warm. ;-P
Just keep up the high rates of obesity, heart disease, STDs and diabetes. If you could just do something about teen pregnancy. You guys are replacing each other too rapidly..
You still SWEAR the Earth is Flat too…you ignorant F*#k…
You do KNOW the East Anglia (your mecca) Global Warming data was proven to be a hoax….based on contrived lies…designed to sell Global Warming the Bull-S#!t…
It’s one reason y’all switched to Climate Change…because reality showed to be so F*#king stupid…
Factory farms and processing plants do undeniable harm to the environment. That is what we are talking about. Great thing about facts, even if willfully ignorant shlubs like you still refuse to accept them, they are still true. Great thing about you is that nobody takes anything you say seriously. It looks like you are the resident ineffective troll here. Every one of these political blogs has one or two. They are always rabidly “conservative”, try to come off very angry and always cartoonishly wrong. Are you all the same person?
Wow…. do you feel all empowered now by calling people names? Did mommy pat you on the back for your use of words? Make sure she don’t forget to change your diaper before you go nite nite.
And this was published in what Journal? Nature perhaps? That would be where significant scientific proofs are published. So, what volume?
So now that we know the truth. How do we structure taxes to control what people eat?
Have you every been to a cattle, hog or chicken processing facility? Fuck paragon of cleanliness and environmental harmony. Eat up, piggies!
“according to Chip Knappenberger of The Cato Institute…” I stopped reading after that.
Chip Knappenburger? No, it’s too easy. I’ll pass.
It’s not your diet causing global warming.It’s your farts.
I’ve found you get a lot more farts from brussels sprouts than you do from beef.
Save the planet eat beef.
That’s so true.A black&blue rib eye is where I’m at,but I’m gonna have to put my Carolina dog in the car….https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPNxffQGpGo
In the case of environmental wackos, farts come out both ends.
It’s not that science wasn’t “allowed” to say proven, but rather that they couldn’t prove it to the world to make us “believe” that it really would be a crisis and 34 years of debate and no climate action proves it.
I eat a lot of pinto beans and boiled eggs. I think I’m the reason for global warming. Please don’t tell anybody.
What does Taylor think of that? Does that offend her or is the smelling of one another’s poots a mutual turn on?
Typical Twisted pogo comment.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/22/us/ties-to-corporate-cash-for-climate-change-researcher-Wei-Hock-Soon.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&module=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news
Sen. James Inhofe’s (of The Fellowship/The Family/C Street/National Prayer Breakfast cabal) favorite climate change ‘scientist’ outed as chronic bribe taker…and, he is an astrophysicist who knows nothing about climate science in ‘scientific’ papers he’s been producing for Southern Energy, Charles Koch and Donor’s Trust.
Are you going to cut back on meat, nitrat?
Since Koch/Cato says meat is fine, I guess my minimal consumption – I’m cheap, not vegetarian – is OK.
What global warming?
What FITS will NOT tell you….
When you VOTE for Liberal-Tarians…you help put the Nutjob environmental Gestapo in power…
And under Obama, we’ve seen that NOTHING is too absurd or ridiculous for them to FORCE on on us…from taking EVERY gun from Americans and redefining marriage for a small special interest group to bashing Israel and exalting ISIS and taxing us for breathing…Obama will do EVERY bit of it and more, if he can…
Obama cares not a bit what you want for our country…he wants to DICTATE leftwing Dogma and you MUST follow…or pay…
No amount of ignorance and Bull-S#!t can be put past Obama. And FITS is 100% w/ him if you vote Liberal-Tairan…
Just say no to PCP kids. It’ll give you all kinds of delusional thoughts.
Just say no to Democrat politicians…..they will F*#k up your country….and everything else they touch…
not one single person has lost one single gun..another proven lie from our own Gene Alday, Grandasshatwithnoblog Emily, the loser who doesnt know if he/she is a guy or a gal..our transgo.
“Obama will do EVERY bit of it and more, if he can”…
Literacy is like writing w/ you…certainly not one of your strong suits…is it???…LMAO..
There may be some things you should endeavor…but this is OBVIOUSLY not one of them…especially when you’re juxtaposed to me…Hahahaha..
hes had six years numbnuts//this will go in your Carter overthrew Iran and Obama was President in 2008 classics of stupidity. Good for you Emily you total failure of a human.
Facts matter.
FIRSTLY Why is it the Deniers are SO STUPID (Or think WE are) that they keep talking about the Bad Weather this Winter invalidating the Scientific Reality of Climate Change brought about by Global Warming?
What is it about ‘Record-Breaking’ and ‘Historic’ that is too difficult to comprehend?
The Climate has definitely Changed and for the Worse.
Secondly – I learned in College Classes during the 80s that MEAT is only for RICH Counties because it takes 10 times as many resources to produce a pound of Animal Protein as it does Vegetable Protein.
You could say that is Eating Meat’s ‘Carbon Footprint’
Unfortunately BEEF – Especially Feedlot Fattened Beef – has the additional burden of the METHANE that Ruminants (like cows) that can break down Cellulose into digestible components produce in their FIRST Stomach which then releases Methane out the Cows Mouth (not primarily as ‘Cow Farts’ ) Methane is 39 TIMES more Devastating to the Atmosphere than CO2 (which is why the Methane released by FRACKING is so Dangerous) and it is because of this that Meat Production is more damaging to the environment than even all the Cars and Trains and Airplanes on the Planet and 2nd only to Coal Power Plants.
Brilliant one4All, absolutely brilliant…after twenty plus years you’re still an IROC.
You should no longer be able to buy meat with EBT cards.
How many liberals would be for that?
No problems, we can all continue to eat free-range grass-fed buffalo burgers from the proposed Great Plains “Buffalo Commons” restored prairie. If restored, it will not be by some environmental do-gooders, but rather because the “environment protecting” farmers we hear all about now (after the DHEC-approved attempted Edisto-draining scheme) have overpumped the vast Ogallala aquifer and drained it nearly dry. No more massive irrigated agriculture there any more. Towns depopulating. But don’t worry, that can’t happen here in SC where major decisions about aquifers are made by politically connected big shots who don’t even know what an aquifer is, and where rivers can somehow be assumed to “safely” yield more than they actually flow because the Farm Bureau finds that convenient.
I’ve had buffalo, we’ll do just fine.
“97%” of Scientists were Wrong: Egg on their faces.
In this latest report are the footprints of past scientific failures.
When the first Federal dietary recommendations were made in 1977 and many years afterwards, we were told to cut our cloresterol consumption including eggs. What does the latest report say? Read for yourself.
“Cholesterol. Previously, the Dietary Guidelines for Americans recommended that cholesterol intake be limited to no more than 300 mg/day. The 2015 DGAC will not bring forward this recommendation because available evidence shows no appreciable relationship between consumption of dietary cholesterol and serum cholesterol, consistent with the conclusions of the AHA/ACC report.2, 35 Cholesterol is not a nutrient of concern for overconsumption.”