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Wanna Fix Global Warming? Talk to the Giant Chicken in the Hummer

Written by PETA

Posted 09-28-2007

Yesterday, one of my colleagues dressed as a chicken and drove a Hummer round the State Department building, where the Meeting of Major Economies on Energy Security and Climate Change was taking place, to make the point that a meat-based diet is responsible for more greenhouse-gas emissions than driving a gas-guzzling SUV. And yes, in case you're wondering, sometimes it does take a giant chicken in a Hum-V to get certain people to pay attention. Here's a pic:

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vegetarian, global warming, taylor, john, lennon, farm, free to a good home, ocho cinco

Recent Comments

Mars commented:

Oct 12, 2007 6:34 PM

Land suitable for animal feed production is not always suitable for human plant production. There are different standards in the legal sense and agricultural sense.They are not interchangable.
Corndog commented:

Oct 12, 2007 6:16 PM

It's fantastic about the Nobel Prize! Good for PETA congratulating Gore immediately and asking him to add the 8th point. I hope the U.N. study will have its due influence. This is uplifting.
rojo commented:

Oct 12, 2007 8:33 AM

hi corndog no arguement on water used per pound etc but what how do you plan to utilise the water saved? rain falls on millions of acres unsuitable for growing crops so how will that waterfrom rain be used to feed humans? Most feedstock for animals is sourced from neighboring farms if not from the very farm on which the animals live. When it comes to transport to markets the nutrient dense meat is equivalent to a much heaviervolumous amount of vegetables ie more truckloads needed to supply the same amount of nutrition. Most fresh fruit and vegies are refrigerated in transport these days and last time I checked there was a frozen vege section in the supermarket. I don't know how many hormones US producers use if any on a poundpound production but it will little differ to the amount of pesticides and herbicides used on vegetables. You'll have to explain why anyone has to be hungry in this world because of animals corn has been very cheap for so long it being used to make fuel. High value crops like nuts have taken over farmland capable of producing large tonnages of grain aren't they to blame too? Corndog if people on this site furnished worthy facts there would be no problem from me. Meat is not the number one cause of global warming prove me wrong if you disagree. I too find providing information to be not enough. I would have thought you might prefer the truth. Apologies for appearing hostile I just give what i get.
commented:

Oct 11, 2007 9:53 PM

So who bought the hummer how does driving it around expending pollutants help anyone? Thanks cough for supporting cough the environment... was that a hybrid Hummer?
Fran Takacs commented:

Oct 11, 2007 6:41 PM

I wish they would do that around here. I live in metro Atlanta and hummers are all over. Yesterday I saw a pink hummer! People just think they are a status symbol "look what I have"! Bunch of inconsiderate idiots!
commented:

Oct 11, 2007 5:40 PM

Wow halo... thats sad
Sheri commented:

Oct 11, 2007 1:04 PM

On a more serious note I can't believe this topic is even under debate. Imagine Your doctor tells you that you have cancer. He advises that there are a number of things that you can do to increase your chances of survival such as stop smoking give up red meat drink green tea and reduce stress. Any one by itself will increase your chance by 25 whereas doing ALL of them will increase your chances by 90. Are you really going to quibble about which one is the higher percentage??? Of course not! If you want to live you will do everything in your power!! Why is this so different?? Our planet is riddled with "cancer" and we all need to do EVERYTHING we can to heal it. Who really cares if the percentage is 20 or 80? If it will help in any way it should be done and not just "justified away" because it will inconvenience us too much. Frankly I want to be able to look my son in the eye and tell him I did everything I could not just present him with a bunch of excuses as to why it made sense to me to I contribute to the destruction of his planet.
commented:

Oct 11, 2007 12:36 PM

Good God Halo how old are you 12???!!
Rock commented:

Oct 11, 2007 12:06 PM

Just wanted to say some Hummer owners get a bad rap. I have a Hummer but only use it on the weekends.
Corndog commented:

Oct 10, 2007 11:54 PM

Hi Mars. I hear what you are saying. We can't simply stop one and start the other. Shortage of land suitable for plant agriculture shouldn't be an issue. As far as I can determine we in the U.S. feed more than 70 percent of the grains and cereals we grow to farmed animals. Worldwide the number drops to a bit less than half. Even if my sources are inaccurate by half we feed more than 13 of all grain and cereal to meat animals. It seems reasonable to me that as the demand for meat decreases land that grew animal feed would free up to grow crops for people. I appreciate your polite response to my post.

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