Burping of the Lambs
Blows Roast off Menu
May
24, 2009
One wonders what all the Liberal Jews will do about
partaking of Passover Lamb.
“High Carbon Foods” Slated to be banned in this article
TO SAVE THE PLANET: Lamb, Pork, Chicken, Beef, Tomatoes, Potatoes, All Green
Vegetables, All Grains, All Fruits, Chocolate, Beer and Alcohol.
At some point this “Brain Trust” is going to realize all of life emits CO2 – as
All of life are “Carbon Based Life Forms” Will this “Brain
Trust” then call for the world wide extermination of all of life to reduce
carbon emmissions and thus save the planet???
GIVE up lamb roasts and save the planet. Government
advisers are developing menus to combat climate change by cutting out “high
carbon” food such as meat from sheep, whose burping poses a serious threat to
the environment.
Out
will go kebabs, greenhouse tomatoes and alcohol. Instead, diners will be
encouraged to consume more potatoes and seasonal vegetables, as well as pork
and chicken, which generate fewer carbon emissions.
“Changing
our lifestyles, including our diets, is going to be one of the crucial elements
in cutting carbon emissions,” said David Kennedy, chief executive of the
Committee on Climate Change.
Kennedy
has stopped eating his favourite doner kebabs because they contain lamb.
A government-sponsored study into greenhouse
gases found that producing 2.2lb of lamb released the equivalent of 37lb of
carbon dioxide.
The problem is because sheep burp so much
methane, a potent greenhouse gas. Cows are only slightly better behaved. The
production of 2.2lb of beef releases methane equivalent to 35lb of CO2
Tomatoes, most of which are grown in heated glasshouses, are the most
“carbon-intensive” vegetable, each 2.2lb generating more than 20lb of CO2
Potatoes, in contrast, release only about 1lb of CO2 for each 2.2lb of food.
The figures are similar for most other native fruit and vegetables.
“We
are not saying that everyone should become vegetarian or give up drinking but
moving towards less carbon intensive foods will reduce greenhouse gas emissions
and improve health,” said Kennedy.
The
climate committee is analysing emissions from farming and will suggest measures
to reduce them. However, it has concluded that people will have to change their
habits.
Alcoholic
drinks are another significant contributory factor, with the growing and
processing of crops such as hops and malt into beer and whisky helping to
generate 1.5% of the nation’s greenhouse gases.
The
Carbon Trust, a government-funded firm, is working with food and drink
companies to calculate the “carbon footprints” of products - sometimes with
surprising results.
Coca-Cola,
for example, generates only about half the greenhouse gas emissions of
Innocent’s “smoothies”. Cadbury’s chocolate generates about 4½lb for every
2.2lb eaten - less than half that from theof CO2 same weight of chicken.