ALL YOU NEED IS... TOFU!
Sunday, November 29, 2009 at 01:27PM Sir Paul McCartney will this week throw his weight behind a growing campaign to address global warming by...... reducing the amount of meat we eat, lobbying EU politicians for their backing.
The former Beatle will interrupt a European tour to fly to Brussels on Thursday, where he will make his case at a special hearing of the European Parliament. Sir Paul said yesterday: "The message that I am taking to the European Parliament is – less meat equals less heat."
Look, I don't eat meat and after a few years don't miss it. I recommend a meat-free diet but clearly this is a decision for the individual and it has NOTHING to do with "global warming." I do understand the point McCartney is making but I think that this "less meat equals less heat" is spurious.
Paul McCartney, agw 
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it may be spurious but it would't do our waistlines and Body Mass Indices any harm
And it would also help with other issues - cutting down forest for grazing land, inefficient use of grain, the lifelong torture of animals in factory farms.
The exaggerations made by the alarmists is not not necessary to make one think that this is something worth considering.
and what are you going to do with all the unemployed farmers?
Besides not all land is worth cropping
He is interrupting a tour to FLY to Brussels. McCartney would do better if he stayed at his Mull of Kintyre farm growing turnips and stop touring and flying. Does this most irritating ex-beatle not know how ungreen flying is.
Or is he only trying to stop us, the great unwashed form flying????
look humans are omnivoures we eat everything, With all the crap we stuff ourselves with mans life expectancy has doubled in the last 300 years.
Eating healthy is always a better choice, but it really doesn't matter when it's your time to die you die. So sit down have a nice juicy steak a glass of beer and enjoy.
Besides the only warming or cooling of the earth is caused by it's rotation around the big yellow thing in the sky not by cow farts
"it would't do our waistlines and Body Mass Indices any harm"
Speak for yourself, Phantom.
Just because you want/like something (like socialized health care or a meatless diet) doesn't mean you should impose it on others). McCartney's use of his pop star "bully pulpit", and his aappeal to the UN "bully pulpit" is an imposition on others of his personal preference.
There is something 'not quit right' about this, - how is it that a guitar player, - considered by some to be talented in that department, but lacking by others, - gets to address a special hearing before the European Parliament on his pet hobby of the moment, while the rest of us 300,000,000 million souls, also part of pan Europeanna, can't even get a vote on even the most mundane of matters.
What is the starting price for such dispensation? - does one's net worth have to be a minimum of one billion, or perhaps even more before your opinion is worth listening to. Clearly only those with wealth are considered worthy of consideration by our masters of the EU.
First Bono, now McCartney, - why it might not be that long before they may consider listening to Blair!...
Meat eating requires far more farmland than crops. As the human population rockets from 3 billion in 1950 to 9 billion in 2050, more and more rainforest will have to be gleared to raise cattle to supply the growing demand.
So McCartney makes a good point, even if AGW turns out to be a crock.
Peter
More rain forest need not be cleared to raise cattle there is more than enough capacity in the western industrialized nations its actualy about cost not need
Switch to fish on Friday. You know it makes sense.
Patty
So long as there's no compulsion involved, I haven't the slightest problem with campaigns to eat less meat.
For the three reasons I stated, and more.
if everyone on earth ate as much meat as the beef gobbling Yanks and Brits, it would be completely unsustainable.
There's no harm in recognizing the obvious.
Patty
Whatever your opinions on what Paul McCartney is saying, how can you conclude he is imposing himself on anyone ? .