Perhaps not outlaw, but raise the price to levels so high that only the wealthy and powerful will be able to afford it.
Meat should be taxed at the wholesale level to raise the price and deter consumption, says a new report from the UN’s International Research Panel (IRP). This will (supposedly) save the environment and prevent global warming.
The evidence is accumulating that meat, particularly red meat, is just a disaster for the environment,” agrees Rachel Premack, a columnist for The Washington Post’s Wongblog.
“Agriculture today accounts for for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions that promote global warming,” says Premack, “and half of those agriculture emissions come from livestock.”
“Agriculture consumes 80 percent of water in the US – most of that being for meat, says Premack. “… For a kilogram of red meat, you need considerably more water than for plant products.”
Who elected these people?
Oh, that’s right, nobody.
This claim and others like it sound to me like they are trying to set the groundwork for Khmer Rouge Part Deux – if they try it in the US, they are in for a surprise! (Unfortunately it will be a bloody, messy, nasty one).
For these vegan fanatics: You need water also to irrigate your precious vegetables and fruits, too, you wackjobs. I wish these vegan types would just stop eating and drinking water, saving precious resources. Once they are all dead, the world would be better off from these Commie fascists.
I don’t know why they don’t just cut to the chase and promote cannibalism. Wouldn’t that solve most of the world’s problems?
For a kilogram of red meat, you need considerably more water than for plant products.
So? Water is only the most plentiful resource on the planet. In most places, it literally falls out of the sky in economically useful quantities. In most places like the Ohio valley and the East coast of the USA, no irrigation is needed at all to grow crops to feed to cattle. It’s free! (except NJ where they tax rainfall).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ov5Jgw_Nwx4
Water is not “consumed”, it’s not lost — it’s used. Or in the case of beer, it’s rented. As part of the normal Water Cycle it’s used, processed and returned as part of the natural cycle in the Environment.
That reminds me, I have to change the litter boxes…
So, let me get this straight — beef cattle are fed water? That’s it? And they don’t exhale, sweat or pee? So, when we eat the water-logged meat, we retain the water? Is that why we are obese?
Oh, I get it. The water is used to grow corn and the corn is used to feed the “corn-fed” beef cattle. On the other hand, corn grown for ethanol is what? —- environmentally friendly? Well, frack me, who would have known?
I must google Amazon and see if I can find one of those greenhouse gas meters so I can check everything on the menu and every little choice I make. When my skin and bones go into the composting stage, does that count in the greenhouse gas emissions post-death cycle?
I read on good authority (the internet) that if you trap 9 years of your own farts that you will have the equivalent power of an atomic bomb. Shouldn’t we all be fitted with methane containment devices (mcd’s) in order to save the planet? What about bad breath? Shouldn’t people just stop talking or even stop exhaling? I am sure human halitosis has the butterfly effect on glaciers in New Zealand.
I must run around town and warn about the sky falling. Things are far worse than anyone ever imagined.
“…so only the rich and powerful will be able to afford it.” Like so many other “issues” like “global warming” in which only the rich and powerful will be able to afford the fuel to jet around the planet to accept their enviro consciousness awards.
” Water is only the most plentiful resource on the planet.”
It turns out not only are there food deserts but water deserts as well. The great lakes are the largest fresh water source in the world, but clean water is a problem for most of the world. We are actually exporting water from the US to CHINA & Saudi Arabia.
The CA aquafer would take a huge hit if people didn’t maintain the diverting of the Colorado river, The Texas aquifer has taken a large hit from selling water.
You can not safetlly drink most of the water in the world. BTW buy yourselves some lifestraw water filters before the SHTF
I’ve long said that the next civil war will not occur because of race relations, or firearms ownership, or even food supply. It will occur because of a dwindling safe water supply. Many parts of the nation have been afflicted with drought over the past decade, and in many of those areas the reaction would be almost comical if it weren’t sadly real. In the utopian republic of California, Central Valley farmers were hit with water restrictions (because, apparently, things like organic kale and tofu grow naturally on palm trees or something), while many urban residents who tried to conserve water by letting their lawns go brown were hit with citations by busybody bureaucrats who also apparently thought that the local water supply was endless. Others, who had no care about any size water bill, often used water in quantities comparable to the electricity used by climate charlatan Algore.
Much of America has been lulled into a sense of complacency by an abundant supply of clean and safe water over the last century. But that supply is no longer abundant and will be less safe in coming years. It may even turn out that what is now expensive bottled water from a tropical island sold in supermarkets will be cheap at twice the price. The urban planners who think lush green lawns are an essential part of living in an arid or semi-arid climate will need to rethink that should they want to continue eating and staying hydrated themselves.