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Is Owning a Dog Worse Than Owning a Hummer?
- SwellJoe 17y agoUnlike cats, domestic dogs can live a healthy life on a vegetarian diet. My dog has been a vegetarian most of her life for health reasons (she has allergies to most kinds of animal protein which results in skin lesions when she eats pretty much any meat-based food). She's 11 years old and in great shape. Also, the "vegetarian driving a Hummer is better than a meat-eater driving a Prius" theory has been debunked. That's not to say vegetarians don't have a much smaller footprint than meat-eaters, they do, but that there's a lot of cranky and questionable science going on in this area, and one has to take most surprising claims with a grain of salt. Of course, the vegetarian that doesn't drive is unarguably a dramatically lower carbon emitter than a meat-eater that drives a Hummer every day; so maybe that should be the goal we're all shooting for.
- acgourley 17y agoThis sort of back and forth makes me believe we'll only be able to intelligently control carbon emissions by attaching a real monetary price to its emission. Not that it's simple, but it seems like a more realistic solution than trying to regulate it upstream, or charge sin taxes for it upstream.
- spooneybarger 17y agobecause afterall, god gave us the earth to do with as we pleased and the other living creatures are just possessions and nothing more. can we see the study what sort of car each child a person has is to while we are at it?
- HeyLaughingBoy 17y agoWonder how they'd feel about my family: three and a half people, two 80lb dogs, about six cats at last count, four horses, bunch of chickens, two ducks, two SUVs, a sports car, a big-ass diesel pickup truck, and miscellaneous small off-road vehicles. But my wife is thinking of becoming a vegetarian, so it's all good ;-)