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Chad Johnson of Denver writes:

A significant amount of media attention recently has been devoted to the issue of climate change, thanks in part to celebrities like Al Gore and Leonardo DiCaprio. Many people profess a desire to make changes, whether significant or small, to help the cause of future generations. Yet what is possibly the greatest action that one can take to reverse climate change trends receives little attention from the media. The United Nations reported in 2006 that animal agriculture and the livestock sector has surpassed the transportation sector in greenhouse gas contributions. Rearing animals for food is responsible for a staggering 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions as measured in carbon dioxide equivalent, including 37 percent of human methane release and 65 percent of nitrous oxide, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization. Methane has 23 times and nitrous oxide an incredible 296 times the Global Warming Potential of CO2. Yet even knowing that switching to a plant-based diet is a greater contribution to reversing climate change trends than changing my standard vehicle in for a hybrid, it still is not the reason why I personally converted my diet. I did it as a way of keeping my ego in check- every day- through my perception of entitlement. I believe that it is healthy and humble for me to maintain a belief that I am not entitled to take a life or offspring-intended secretions from that life for my own perceived benefit(s).

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READER COMMENTS

This is not the first time this letter has been published. GoVeg.com provides this exact letter. As does an article by Dan Brook (http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3312)

Can't people even string a couple original thoughts together? I would be too embarrassed to publish someone else's thoughts as my own.

Yawn. Ho-hum, the same ol' same ol' from the wackos.

Good grief. He's keeping his ego in check? But he's self-righteous enough to try making others think they should follow his noble lead.

Dagnabit, I just picked up a bunch of ribs from the store...

...and forgot the BBQ sauce.

Just goes to prove that plagiarism is alive and well post-Churchill. Perhaps the letter "submitter" can apply for the vacant professorship in the CU Ethnic Studies department...

Trinity:

Thanks for the chuckle... "submitter" ehheheh

Well, the "Letter writer" only has one option..... He must take himself out of the food chain. We shall miss you, but the good thing is, you won't be farting up our atmosphere anymore. Thank you for your sacrifice.... I would suggest not using a gun... lead, ya know.

Now, where did I leave that cheeseburger.....

I once read that if you start with two rabbits and one calf, in a couple of years the bunnies will produce more meat. Here in Colorado we have wild bunnies everywhere.

Bunnyburger, bunny helper.

Just love these "form letters"....

See, this is what I hold classes about. Chad just proves that he's part of the cowardness wing of the wacked out party -- no, wait, that' my party, damn. Well he's part of the cowardness wing of some party since he won't an AK47 and shoot Sharon B's bunny rabbits for dinner. Only a US NonMeat Eating Hater member of the cowardness wing wouldn't shoot a clip or two for dinner. Proves I'm right on target, he proves my point. -- class dismissed!

4.6 billion years of relentless climate change and this lunatic wants wants to know who farted and why? And now we are learning that the exact same climate change that is happening on the planet Earth is also occurring on Mars and Venus. So who farted there?

What's it going to take to put this globalhoax to bed? Holy carbon credits, I still haven't recoverd from "the coming ice age" brought to us by the very same crowd only a few decades back.

Excuse me, chad, while I fire-up my B-B-Q! Ribs, ranch-style beans and lots of cold beer are on the menue for my guests and I this evening. Leonardo and Al will get to eat the organic bean sprouts and all-natural spinach. No preservatives or MSG.

Gosh, we are talking about eliminating all animals, domestic and wild from the earth. If you want to be a vegetarian, go for it but eliminating animals from this earth makes no sense.

GG

Sharon B

It appears you a "real man" ready, willing and able to keep food on your family's dinner table for you! lol

"unhinged On" 08:03 AM

Nice spoof on our friend who shall not be named>

What will happen if we don't eat all the livestock we currently have? Will they just become extinct? Or maybe we need to sterilize them so they don't reproduce? It seems to me if we don't eat them then more will exist which would casue more of the gas, no?

trinity, I have eaten a lot of Bumper Beef. That is what we called deer or elk that we got with the bumper of the pick up truck.

But tire bunny is usually too messy.

Sharon B

Imagine what you'd get if the "Unhinged One" nailed a bunny with his AK47, with a 40 round magazine!

Bumper beef is good. I've ended an unproductive deer hunt with that delicacy. Better than coming home empty handed with head hung in shame!

Trinity, and now city folks know why we have those heavy duty reinforced bumpers.

Surely a person who has the gall to state his belief in a vegetarian diet should be sentenced to die by being gored by a bull. The very idea of his coming up with views with which I disagree. But it does give those on the lower rung of humanity a chance to show off their lack of civility. I get the impression that they have been eating too much skunk meat.

Sharon B

I didn't have a country style reinforced bumper. That "pre-tenderized" venison (I'll now adopt the correct name of bumper beef) cost me a little over $1,100. Me thinks a heavy reinforced bumper would have been cheaper - but you know our city slicker mentality; it wasn't necessary, until it was necessary.

Trinity, my dad had a doe drop off a cliff onto his hood Gave it to a man in Eagle, Colorado.

Our most expensive one was when we cleaned it in the bathtub, and mom pulled all her ribs of one side and had to go to the doctor. Expensive free meat.

Just to remind folks of what is on the card:
From last week's edition of Science, the outlook from the more accurate DePreSys model.

"...climate will continue to warm, with at least half of the years after 2009 predicted to exceed the warmest year currently on record"

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/317/5839/796

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