Comments on: Carnivores and climate change… http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20070719/carnivores-and-climate-change/ Hints, tips and discussions on reducing your impact on the environment. Sun, 22 Aug 2010 07:40:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Ivan http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20070719/carnivores-and-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-442 Ivan Tue, 21 Aug 2007 06:10:07 +0000 http://www.low-impact.net/index.php/20070719/carnivores-and-climate-change/#comment-442 And if you want to read the other side of the story, the meat proponents have some web sites with their own version of the "facts". I found a good one at http://www.beeffrompasturetoplate.org/mythmeatproductioniswasteful.aspx. Go on, read it, I know it made me laugh. They have some good points but the rest seems to be wrapped up in some really confusing ways of presenting the statistics, like "the yield of wheat from irrigated land averages about 3 bushels per acre inch of water". Maybe that's just my metric imperialism colouring my viewpoint. And if you want to read the other side of the story, the meat proponents have some web sites with their own version of the “facts”. I found a good one at http://www.beeffrompasturetoplate.org/mythmeatproductioniswasteful.aspx.

Go on, read it, I know it made me laugh.

They have some good points but the rest seems to be wrapped up in some really confusing ways of presenting the statistics, like “the yield of wheat from irrigated land averages about 3 bushels per acre inch of water”. Maybe that’s just my metric imperialism colouring my viewpoint.

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