Eating Less Meat May Slow Global Warming, Study Finds

Cat Herder · Understander of unimportant things

Eating Less Meat May Slow Global Warming, Study Finds

arbilad · Head Chef

Yeah, it's in the Doctrine and Covenants. I can't remember exactly where.
I'm constantly shocked at the claims made by the global warming crowd. The basic mentality is that mankind is a plague on the Earth, instead of the stewards of the Earth.
I'm perfectly happy to be a wise steward. But I don't consider myself a plague.
BTW, if meat is murder, so is salad. A plant is a living creature, after all. They've even proven that plants feel pain. They've shown that plants have elevated reactions when someone enters the room who had previously destroyed a plant in their presence. Plants are living things too! We should stop eating plants!

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

That's why we can only eat fruit. The tree doesn't have to die. It's just the seed part we're eating. Milk and honey is okay, too.

Yay for fruitarians!

arbilad · Head Chef

You have to be careful, though, Coco; the fruit has to fall off the tree on its own before you can eat it. Otherwise you're harming the tree.
Excuse me while I go off and think up some combination of scriptures and faulty reasoning to demonstrate that if you're mormon you must be a fruitarian or you're not really living the Word of Wisdom.

rayb · Hot Air Balloon

It's also a sign of the last days... would be interesting if this were to get a lot of traction and government got involved in banning meat production... and as for the scripture, go to scriptures.lds.org and do a websearch for "Shakers"... that's how I remember where that scripture is... The Shakers were a religion that believed that the Messiah had already returned in the form of a woman, and they had peculiar practices including celibacy as more virtuous than marriage(first scripture openly extolling that marriage is ordained for man) and the veg-head thing...

--Ray (who's currently reading the D&C in his personal scripture study... (guess who just go the old testament on 49 CDs?! ;) ) )

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

Yea, here we go killing the earth again. I should buy some carbon credits. That'll fix things.

Cocobeem · Keeper of the Holy Grail

See, the WoW is just a "preparatory" law, sort of like the law of tithing leads to the law of consecration. We won't be fruitarians until the Millenium really, so no need to panic just yet.

salesortonscom · Wise and Revered Master

Protien Replicators. You can have your steak without hacking up Bessie!

PollyAnna · Senior Bucketkeeper

arbilad wrote:
But I don't consider myself a plague.

Today... I was definitely a plague... weirdface