JAPUNDIT Open Thread - 038

Here is the open thread for the week.

Feel free to sound off about anything you like.

6 Responses to “JAPUNDIT Open Thread - 038”

Edward Chmura Said:

Can you believe this??

Meat must be rationed to four portions a week, says report on climate change

People will have to be rationed to four modest portions of meat and one litre of milk a week if the world is to avoid run-away climate change, a major new report warns.

The report, by the Food Climate Research Network, based at the University of Surrey, also says total food consumption should be reduced, especially “low nutritional value” treats such as alcohol, sweets and chocolates.

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Tara Garnett, the report’s author, warned that campaigns encouraging people to change their habits voluntarily were doomed to fail and urged the government to use caps on greenhouse gas emissions and carbon pricing to ensure changes were made. “Food is important to us in a great many cultural and symbolic ways, and our food choices are affected by cost, time, habit and other influences,” the report says. “Study upon study has shown that awareness-raising campaigns alone are unlikely to work, particularly when it comes to more difficult changes.”

I can see it all now. . . Dinnertime SWAT raids. . . Meat black markets. . . Milk mobs. . .

remora Said:

I’ll tell you a little story Edward..my Mother who will probably read this tomorrow is 89 (hale and hearty) she cooked-baked-grilled-fried-meat for over 40 years (for us) despite being a closet vegetarian..this fact only came out after my father died.

Now Tsutomu (Stomby) my youngest seems to be displaying the same genetic predilection for what goes in his gob..

[so d'fferent strokes fer different folks a'suppose..]

remora

Edward Chmura Said:

Well, rem. . . My disbelief concerning the above report has nothing to do with meat or vegetables.

remora Said:

when I saw the footage of those children begging for food on the China /NKorea border..something inside of my snapped.

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=ITBqRSMBWaM&feature=related

remora

Arden Said:

no children should be like that I think.

ghoti Said:

I’m surprised the Food Climate Research Network hasn’t come out singing the praises of North Korea. I bet their per capita carbon production is way below the wasteful US. And not a single SUV in sight!

Although, I guess for a person with no shoes, global warming sounds pretty good.

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