Save the Planet, Eat Your Dog 942
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timothy
from the children-too-stringy dept.
from the children-too-stringy dept.
R3d M3rcury writes "New Zealand's Dominion Post reports on a new book just released, Time to Eat the Dog: The real guide to sustainable living. In this book, they compare the environmental footprint of our housepets to other things that we own. Like that German Shepherd? It consumes more resources than two Toyota SUVs. Cats are a little less than a Volkswagen Golf. Two hamsters are about the same as a plasma TV. Their suggestions? Chickens, rabbits, and pigs. But only if you eat them."
Another solution (Score:5, Funny)
It sounds like the time for a modest proposal ;-)
OMG (Score:5, Funny)
My offspring and their offspring probably have the eco-footprint of a coal-fired electric plant.
What to do...
Re:Good grief.. (Score:3, Funny)
thank goodness I have an unlisted time period.
Re:OMG (Score:5, Funny)
My offspring and their offspring probably have the eco-footprint of a coal-fired electric plant.
What to do...
Well......
They say that it's a dog eat dog world.
Sounds like you have a lot of pets... (Score:5, Funny)
I think I know where I'm having dinner tonight! :)
-A Committed Environmentalist
I hear their next release is a cook book (Score:5, Funny)
"Two Hundred Interesting Ways to Wok Your Dog"
Re:Calm down guys (Score:5, Funny)
Pretty easy talk from a guy that has obviously had the government come and take away many of your vowels.
Re:Good grief.. (Score:4, Funny)
but I don't think anything realistic has been proposed here
So little imagination. The "proposal" is implied.
This gem of enviro-wennie research will rattle around among the cocktail parties of the jet-set ruling class until one of them becomes convinced they can make a big splash by regulating pet ownership in the name of the "environment." Expect this to appear first in San Francisco in the next few years in the form punitive pet taxes. Thereafter limits and outright bans will be created.
Except for horses. There won't be any meaningful limits on horse owners.
Re:Good grief.. (Score:5, Funny)
I've owned a dog and a Porsche.
With the amount of time I spent driving, fueling, polishing, and lovingly caressing that car... Yeah, I kind of did treat it like a pet.
Of course, the car was too big for my current apartment, so I had to buy a pair of motorcycles. I'm having a hard time training them to stay off the couch.
Re:Stupid comparisons (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Not my dog (Score:4, Funny)
My dog could land the Space Shuttle. My neighbors dog, however, is worthless. That's a dog who should be sacrificed for the environment.
If humans hadn't spent the last 1000 or so years breeding dogs to look goofy they might be running the show by now.
Re:Environmentalist nonsense (Score:5, Funny)
So do I. And our four cats combined have a smaller carbon footprint than one environmentalist. If we're really serious about reducing CO2 by getting rid of redundant organisms, I know what I'd be getting rid of...
Re:Not my dog (Score:3, Funny)
Re:OMG (Score:5, Funny)
Soylent green is Poodles!
Re:I'm writing a new book.. (Score:2, Funny)
Do you have idea what the carbon footprint of a human is?
Depends on the human ... if it's Al Gore, with his mansion [factcheck.org], or his private jet(s) [businessweek.com], I guess it would be a lot.
How about... (Score:3, Funny)
sounds like homeschooling (Score:3, Funny)
I think my daughter ought to accept where food comes from and not be bothered by it. There is also a disection opportunity here, helping her to learn about the organs found in a typical mammal.
The rabbit is also excellent eating. For bonus points, make a fur hat or some ear warmers.
Re:Good grief.. (Score:5, Funny)
As the owner of two dogs, sign me up. I demand environmental offset credits for the offal that my dogs prevent from going directly into landfills and being converted into methane. Additionally, I want additional credits for the conversion of said otherwise-useless offal and meat byproducts into environmentally useful high-grade fertilizer. And a program for harvesting this valuable resource - maybe funded by a tax on stupid university professors dumb ideas?
I also want another credit for the carbon offset from being able to turn the heat down at night - because happiness is a warm puppy. Dogs are just as good as an electric blanket. Actually, they're better - they continue to work during power failures.
Also, I should get an additional carbon credit for every kilometer I do with the dogs dragging me around on either roller blades (summer) or a sled (winter). And both investment credits and a subsidy for the purchase of a dog-drawn cart.
And for the bonus round, you can always grind up those professors who wrote this piece of trash as a quick way to make a buck; my wolf probably isn't too fussy about who he eats - he chews EVERYTHING, and I'm sure their carbon footprint is larger than his. And, since they're already producing shit, why not cut out the middle man ...
Re:Good grief.. (Score:5, Funny)
But if we're honest, only the jealous people say that.
Re:Good grief.. (Score:4, Funny)
Only if there's not enough dark matter to bring everything back together and start the whole process over in a few hundred billion years ...
I know ... a discussion that has dog poop at one extreme and other dark matter at the other extreme ... only on slashdot ...
Re:Good grief.. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Good grief.. (Score:3, Funny)
As the owner of two dogs, sign me up. I demand environmental offset credits for the offal that my dogs prevent from going directly into landfills and being converted into methane. Additionally, I want additional credits for the conversion of said otherwise-useless offal and meat byproducts into environmentally useful high-grade fertilizer. And a program for harvesting this valuable resource - maybe funded by a tax on stupid university professors dumb ideas?
Denied.The dog is a fine producer of methane and the landfill is a pretty poor one. Additionally, dog feces are a public health hazard and should not be used as manure.
I also want another credit for the carbon offset from being able to turn the heat down at night - because happiness is a warm puppy. Dogs are just as good as an electric blanket. Actually, they're better - they continue to work during power failures.
Denied. The dog never turns off and is wasting its heat, as well as being an inefficient heater. In addition, the dog is obviously a workaround for the mandatory rolling blackouts This is unacceptable
Also, I should get an additional carbon credit for every kilometer I do with the dogs dragging me around on either roller blades (summer) or a sled (winter). And both investment credits and a subsidy for the purchase of a dog-drawn cart.
And for the bonus round, you can always grind up those professors who wrote this piece of trash as a quick way to make a buck; my wolf probably isn't too fussy about who he eats - he chews EVERYTHING, and I'm sure their carbon footprint is larger than his. And, since they're already producing shit, why not cut out the middle man ...
Will be taken into consideration, in the meantime it is recommended you feed yourself to your pet.
Re:Good grief.. (Score:3, Funny)
Wait, isn't fertilizer one of the components that terrorists use to make bombs? So you're saying that your dog is a terrorist?
uh oh... Now I've just united the Right and Left in the goal of banning pets. The Left will do it to save the environment and the Right will do it to fight the terrorists!
Issue for a lot of people... (Score:3, Funny)
Dogs are not halal.
Save the environment! (Score:2, Funny)
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Re:Huge wastage (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Good grief.. (Score:3, Funny)
Well, poop and dark matter do in fact have something in common: Nibblonians.