As part of its 44-page epic on how to survive global warming, Time magazine advocated vegetarianism and bashed burgers in the April 9 issue.
"If you switch to vegetarianism, you can shrink your carbon footprint," said the magazine.
Number 22 on the list of 51 things you can do to "make a difference" was "Skip the steak" asking this extreme question: "Which is responsible for more global warming, your BMW or your Big Mac?"
"It's your burger," Time answered.
Following the same train of thought, Time offered number 25 "Support your local farmer," because locally grown fruit and veggies rack up fewer "petroleum miles."
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RJ, you are dealing with &quo
April 3, 2007 - 20:39 ET by JABRJ, you are dealing with "hater" here. Please do not feed this idiot troll, it only degrades the site to feed off their idiotic rants.
...or to put it in a more PC manner; pease do not converse with the ones that attempt to disrupt threads for their own enjoyment.
"To bad Ignorance isn't painful..."
Hey, what happened to the thread?
April 3, 2007 - 20:46 ET by RJHey! What happened? Somebody dumped the entire string of posts!
RJ, adjust your "comment
April 3, 2007 - 21:05 ET by JABRJ, adjust your "comments" tab the thread is still there/here.
"To bad Ignorance isn't painful..."
No, JAB, my "comments" are fine, but a whole string was dumped
April 3, 2007 - 21:15 ET by RJNo, JAB , my "comments" are fine. There are at least 6-8 posts on a string that have been dumped.
No, something DID happen to t
April 3, 2007 - 22:31 ET by Indiana JoeNo, something DID happen to this thread. I was on earlier, and there was a reply to "Blonde," but no comment from her. I hit "refresh" and that reply disappeared. And notice that the first comment is NOT the oldest... the comment below by "blarsen" was the first comment on this thread earlier.
Strange days indeed....
"If you switch to vegetariani
April 3, 2007 - 17:02 ET by blarsen"If you switch to vegetarianism, you can shrink your carbon footprint"
You also considerably shrink the size of your turd.
As a charter member of NEI ch
April 3, 2007 - 17:07 ET by EdhenryAs a charter member of NEI chapter of pEta (people eating tasty animals), I object.
About four years ago I star
April 3, 2007 - 17:46 ET by 01-20-09About four years ago I started eating more and more salads. I now buy
six heads of lettuce and a variety of other vegetables from a local
farmer's market, every week. Besides being good for you, it's dirt
cheap.
I also started walking to work. In that time I lost: 40 pounds, high
blood pressure, and high cholesterol. My nickname now is "Hollywood."
Even if Al Gore is wrong I'm still better off.
We should pass a law that health insurance premiums would be the pound.
Why should I (or my employer) be paying for 300 pound Big Mac addicts.
The thing you exercised is ca
April 3, 2007 - 17:52 ET by UnsaneThe thing you exercised is called "freewill", which is what the 300 pound Big Mac addicts you so deride are also exercising.
Freewill is a wonderful thing. Let's NOT tamper with it.
"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)
But.... but........ I eat Bi
April 3, 2007 - 18:03 ET by MidAmericaBut.... but........
I eat Big Macs and junk and sweets and I'm average weight and normal blood pressure, and take no medications.
and I'm 57 years old.
There's a saying that if you want good health be sure to pick your parents carefully.
Mid...I have an Aunt that is
April 3, 2007 - 18:11 ET by Clear thinkerMid...
I have an Aunt that is 93 years old and going strong. She likes to make a lot of potroasts and other greasy meat dishes. When she is done with eating at the table, she gets a few peices of white bread and soaks up all the grease left in the pans and eats it. She has done this her whole life and has only been hospitalized when she ahd her children and once when she broke her hip at the tender age of 89.
The liberal MSM has become an enemy of the USA.
Yup.... sounds like the kind
April 3, 2007 - 18:36 ET by MidAmericaYup.... sounds like the kind of people I grew up with.
I was raised on lots of meat, whole milk, and white bread.
Most of my family has lived fairly healthily into their 90's.
As to that last sentence...is
April 3, 2007 - 18:54 ET by UnsaneAs to that last sentence...isn't that amazing how that works? I was told by a doctor, upon looking at my cholesterol level (and the fact that it was rock bottom for someone my age), "You either are eating an outstanding diet or have really good genes!" (Well, a mix of both, really...but the diet is definitely the weakest link of the two!)
"HAV3 TH3 BRIDG3S OF INSANITY B33N CROSS3D AND FOR3V3R R3TRACT3D???." - Meshuggah, "3ntrapm3nt", from Catch Thirty Thr33 (2005)
America is best described by
April 3, 2007 - 18:20 ET by USA4freedomAmerica is best described by one word, freedom... Dwight D. Eisenhower
Hey, the world does not owe y
April 3, 2007 - 18:30 ET by USA4freedomHey, the world does not owe you health insurance. Pay for it yourself.
America is best described by one word, freedom... Dwight D. Eisenhower
They will have to pry my gril
April 3, 2007 - 18:50 ET by Airforce_5_OThey will have to pry my grill from my cold dead hands and I hope it's right after I finsh my Porter House, medium, with a big ass baked tater.
Thanks from a 200 pound 44 year old male who still hits the gym.
Don't forget the butter and s
April 4, 2007 - 09:24 ET by taznarDon't forget the butter and sour cream for that "baked tater."
Don't use margarine though, those trans-fats will kill you!
You should be paying for 300
April 3, 2007 - 18:54 ET by TheBigBYou should be paying for 300 pound Big Mac addicts for the same reason that I have to pay for low income housing, food stamps, Medicaid, etc.for some 23 year old woman who doesn't want to work to flop on her back every 2 years and produce a child.
I have to pay for the poo
April 3, 2007 - 20:56 ET by 01-20-09I have to pay for the poor, too, but you don't hear me complaining. You and I would both be poor if we grew up in a third world country. I much rater be here with my good job and help the poor.
If a few lazy women actually have babies just for to get welfare, we should all encourage them to have abortions -- and get them into tech schools.. An unwanted child is tomorrow's felon.
My God you are an idiot. Do y
April 3, 2007 - 22:36 ET by Clear thinkerMy God you are an idiot. Do you really openly call for the murder of babies?
The liberal MSM has become an enemy of the USA.
It's just trolling, Clear
April 3, 2007 - 22:49 ET by RJIt's just Trolling, Clear. That's how it gets it's kicks.
Geesh Ct...I was hoping every
April 3, 2007 - 22:50 ET by bigtimerGeesh Ct...
I was hoping everyone would ignore that comment by the troll who wants and needs attention...that is all.
It made me furious too, but that is their job, thats what trolls do...
Derail the thread....among other things.
I saw it a long time ago.
He has to answer to God for even posting what he did in the end...that satisfies me.
90210, your name sake tells m
April 3, 2007 - 22:51 ET by JAB90210, your name sake tells me where your political stance is. Good luck on this site in furthering your education.
"To bad Ignorance isn't painful..."
You have been going about mea
April 3, 2007 - 22:51 ET by NL207You have been going about measuring the sizes of people's turds in order to verify this? Or is this just another of your asshole opinions?
Almost too easy...I thought
April 3, 2007 - 17:16 ET by MightyMouthAlmost too easy...
I thought You were our turd.
"There are two types of people in this country; those who provide freedom and those who enjoy it." MM says...
Well, as a life-long farmer
April 3, 2007 - 17:26 ET by kcmt1Well, as a life-long farmer, I would say I have more experience with turds of all types than anyone here; therefore, I need to tell you that the more vegetables a human consumes, the more turds he will produce, as opposed to meat. Also, in order to produce those vegetables, a certain minimum of animal turds will be required as fertilizer. (Unless you want to use commercial non- organic fertilizers.) So like everything else, it all balances out.
Is it ok with libs if we eat seafood ?
April 3, 2007 - 17:35 ET by SportPoliticsIs it ok with libs if we eat seafood ? Have the libs given up shrimp, caviar, lobster, tuna, cod, salmon, perch,and all the rest ?
Can we even fish anymore ? Didn't the libs go on a catch and release craze a few years back ?
I love to send the libs loose in the woods up here with their squash gourd flute so the male bambi could come by and maul them.
The libs had better hope an EMP doesn't take out our electric grid. After the libs were done looting the stores wasting half of everything, they would curl in a ball and try to die, as they cried the government abandoned them. If you told them to get off their crying blankie, grab the rifle and go get some supper, they would stare at you horrified and call you a murderer.
If those ding dang ol' common
April 3, 2007 - 17:49 ET by blarsenIf those ding dang ol' commonists take out the grid, all I gotta doo is to far up the bbq and throw on a slab of some freshly kilt and gutted tofu.
Well for me that just makes m
April 3, 2007 - 18:22 ET by USA4freedomWell for me that just makes me want to start up my F250 4x4 diesel. Then drive to Hardies. For two reasons, one because they are at least 10 extra miles then any other hamburger joint and two so I can eat the monster thick burger. I get really sick of people working their ass off to make us feel guilty. If you want to live in the world of 100 years ago move to Afghanistan. Tell AlGore to give up on the steak and the mining and his $30,000 annual utility bill. Tell John Travolta to give up his 5 airplane….s. Then there is Kennedy and uncle Walter that doesn’t want windmills off of their shore. Then there is Barbra Streisand, she once had a $22,000 water bill and has a 12,000 sq ft air condition barn (just to keep her memorabilia), we all know just how valuable that is. Then there is John (there’s two Americas) Edwards, who some how needs 28,200 sq feet of living area while he preaches to us. It’s like a crack whore walking up and saying: Just say NO. Tell environmental hypocrites to sick it, (where the sun or global warming doesn’t go.) I really don’t care how big your house is, or how much gas you use, just don’t preach to me!
America is best described by one word, freedom... Dwight D. Eisenhower
I still say Cow Farts are the
April 3, 2007 - 18:43 ET by Airforce_5_OI still say Cow Farts are the problem so there for we must eat more meat.
Save the planet, Eat a Cow.
Eco-friendly power shakes
April 3, 2007 - 19:28 ET by acumenEat nothing but veggies? I thought the left had instructed us to use all the vegies for alternative fuel? I guess for this Easter...oops....Spring celebration meal we will be serving eco-friendly power shakes. What a gas.
Idiot liberals - congressman obey(me)
Hey what happened to the trol
April 3, 2007 - 20:40 ET by USA4freedomHey what happened to the troll??
America is best described by one word, freedom... Dwight D. Eisenhower
Julia, when God takes away my
April 3, 2007 - 21:00 ET by JABJulia, when God takes away my K9's I will gladly give up meat, until then my dental x-ray does not resemble that of a cow, therefore I shall not eat only vegetables.
Ha, your post reminds me of when my wife had me go over to her friends house for supper, all they served was veggie's (yes they are lib's), I had to make the comment that "the veggie's were great and one would almost not even realize there was not meat in the dinner!"
You can imigane the scorned looks I received from everyone (approx. twelve), mainly the wife.
"To bad Ignorance isn't painful..."
I was invited over once, for
April 3, 2007 - 21:08 ET by USA4freedomI was invited over once, for Thanksgiving by a Vegan. He told me his wife was fixing a turkey out of tofu. He said it taste and looks just like a turkey. I started to laugh out loud. As much as I tried to stop I just could not stop laughing. Some how (thankfully) my invitation was misplaced.
America is best described by one word, freedom... Dwight D. Eisenhower
USA, good for you, I already
April 3, 2007 - 21:18 ET by JABUSA, good for you, I already know you did not miss anything. Wait till the wife serves you a "hamburger" made from tofu, and tries to pass it off as a real beef burger. What a let down it is and the argument for "your" health will soon ensue. Good luck, my friend.
BTW, Been there, done that :-)
"To bad Ignorance isn't painful..."
So this is what the conservat
April 3, 2007 - 21:21 ET by balboaSo this is what the conservative movement has been reduced to?! "Losing" Thanksgiving invitations to avoid tofurkey?! I'm shocked, dismayed, and outraged!!!! OUTRAGED!!!
Go to bed, balboa
April 3, 2007 - 21:29 ET by RJWhat? Because an individual doesn't want to eat tofuturkey you think that it represents the "conservative movement?" You should put down the drink or the bong or whatever mind-altering substance led you to that thought, balboa and go straight to bed. ;^>
Bal, grow the "F" u
April 3, 2007 - 22:39 ET by JABBal, grow the "F" up would you. Geez your immature rants get old, Fast!
"To bad Ignorance isn't painful..."
Could be and I say could ligh
April 3, 2007 - 22:44 ET by bigtimerCould be and I say could lightly that this is one of the times boa was just trying to be humourous...
He did put outrageous in emphasis....lol!
Wouldn't take any of it so seriously.
Btw JAB....I saw those comments that disappeared too..and one of mine were deleted awhile back too...what the heck happened?
I agree, BT, that he was just
April 3, 2007 - 22:54 ET by RJI agree, BT, that he was just funnin'. That's why I gave it back in kind.
Hi RJ..Sorry...I kinda figure
April 3, 2007 - 22:59 ET by bigtimerHi RJ..
Sorry...I kinda figured you were...I saw it earlier...I was speaking to JAB...and should of said so.
Sorry 'bout that.
BT, in answer to your questio
April 3, 2007 - 23:19 ET by JABBT, in answer to your question, I made a big Bo-Bo earlier in the evening in regard to the thread you question. It was my mistake and it shall not happen again (as long as the trolls play hind-go-seek and stay hidden) ;-P JAB
"To bad Ignorance isn't painful..."
BT & RJ, yep, I must have
April 3, 2007 - 23:06 ET by JABBT & RJ, yep, I must have been on the defense this evening, I shall now drop my sword.
All is good in the eye's of the bewildered ;-)
"To bad Ignorance isn't painful..."
Not ot worry 'bout it JAB...H
April 3, 2007 - 23:12 ET by bigtimerNot ot worry 'bout it JAB...
Happens to the best of us now and then.
Now what do you suppose happened to those comments?
I agree
April 4, 2007 - 09:43 ET by Julia A. SeymourI won't be giving up my sirloin any time soon!