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2004-08-17 International-UN-NGOs

We have to be veggies or we'll destroy the world and that will be bad

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Posted by Anonymoose 2004-08-17 12:00:00 AM|| || Front Page|| [1 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 The World Water Week in Stockholm will be told the growth in demand for meat and dairy products is unsustainable...

No problem. If this is indeed what's in store, we'll either make do, or find a solution. Don't like it? Tough.

Posted by Bomb-a-rama 2004-08-17 12:31:22 AM|| 2004-08-17 12:31:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#2 Mankind may exhaust many resources thoughout our existence, but water will not be one of them. I think the BBC is channelling PT Barnum.

Posted by Super Hose 2004-08-17 12:41:59 AM|| 2004-08-17 12:41:59 AM|| Front Page Top

#3 World water supplies will not be enough for our descendants to enjoy the sort of diet the West eats now, experts say.

On the other hand there will be enough water for the BBC staff's kids once they kill the rest of us with the enviro policies.

Posted by badanov 2004-08-17 1:49:32 AM|| [http://www.rkka.org] 2004-08-17 1:49:32 AM|| Front Page Top

#4 In 1974, the noted eco-quack Paul Ehrlich predicted that the world would run out of oil by 1980. He also predicted that there would be food rationing in the United States by the early 1990s. Today, with the 90s over, his sycophants and followers instead talk about an obesity crisis. These people are not just frauds, they are depraved, systematic, concious liars whose only goal is power through fear. As with terrorists and every other demonic force on the planet, they work in close cooperation with the institutional media.

Posted by Atomic Conspiracy 2004-08-17 1:49:53 AM|| 2004-08-17 1:49:53 AM|| Front Page Top

#5 Whats more you "export water" when you sell meat for export acording to these clowns. This is PETA crap. "Meat" is too expenseive to raise","grain is better" and other tripe follows. I read this yesterday and considered it a was of time. The BBC freaks are also against "blood sports" like any hunting or riding to hounds. The English and Euros have become such mental cripples that they eat this fecal matter up as fact with no real peer review. Yes clean water is scarce and we need to use it better but it's not a problem outside of the 3rd world. Find some gross poluter in the US some place and they are being protected by a Democratic party hack or are the actual government. It's not 1968 anymore.

Posted by Flamebait93268 2004-08-17 2:10:06 AM|| 2004-08-17 2:10:06 AM|| Front Page Top

#6 In 1974, the noted eco-quack Paul Ehrlich predicted that the world would run out of oil by 1980. He also predicted that there would be food rationing in the United States by the early 1990s.

Who was the economist who made a wager with him about commodity prices 20 years ago....?

Posted by Shipman 2004-08-17 7:52:31 AM|| 2004-08-17 7:52:31 AM|| Front Page Top

#7 The world will be destroyed. Women and the poor will be hardest hit.

Posted by John Simmins 2004-08-17 9:23:22 AM|| 2004-08-17 9:23:22 AM|| Front Page Top

#8 Cuz they're "more sensitive"?

Posted by .com 2004-08-17 9:26:51 AM|| 2004-08-17 9:26:51 AM|| Front Page Top

#9 I hear flambed Wahabbis taste good.
(and there's a plentiful supply)

Posted by Howard UK 2004-08-17 9:30:28 AM|| 2004-08-17 9:30:28 AM|| Front Page Top

#10 sorry Mucky, this makes me want a burger for lunch today

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-17 9:34:37 AM|| 2004-08-17 9:34:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#11 But ya hafta pick 'em out of the background debris of expatia - might be more work than the nutrition gained. But, heh, it's worth a try!

Posted by .com 2004-08-17 9:35:09 AM|| 2004-08-17 9:35:09 AM|| Front Page Top

#12 Not too worried about the water -- the trickle-down theory works. As for food, well, I'm sure these organically-raised vegans would taste great slathered in Gates BBQ sauce.

BTW: Have you guys ever shopped in a Wild Oats and noticed that the health-food people... don't really look very healthy?

Posted by BH 2004-08-17 9:57:25 AM|| 2004-08-17 9:57:25 AM|| Front Page Top

#13 BH - LOL! Yes!!!

Posted by .com 2004-08-17 10:02:19 AM|| 2004-08-17 10:02:19 AM|| Front Page Top

#14 We have an "organic pork products" company in the same building as mine. Not one "model for a healthy lifestyle" works there. In fact one of them is down smoking a butt in the parking lot as I type this.
I guess the Marlboro could be considered organic though.

Posted by Capsu78 2004-08-17 10:48:54 AM|| 2004-08-17 10:48:54 AM|| Front Page Top

#15 if they're into natural Capsu, that's probably an unfiltered Camel

Posted by Frank G 2004-08-17 10:51:29 AM|| 2004-08-17 10:51:29 AM|| Front Page Top

#16 Bush lied! Water dried!

Posted by Chris W. 2004-08-17 10:53:58 AM|| 2004-08-17 10:53:58 AM|| Front Page Top

#17 Animals need much more water than grain to produce the same amount of food, and ending malnutrition and feeding even more mouths will take still more water.

I've got it! Let's kill all the f*cking animals!

Posted by BH 2004-08-17 11:10:12 AM|| 2004-08-17 11:10:12 AM|| Front Page Top

#18 BH: soooooo true. You see these people shopping in Whole Foods and the like....and they look (and smell) awful. Sunken eyes, pasty skin, as they shuffle about looking for whatever soy product it is they feel is gonna keep em alive. With apologies to muck....that kinda livin' ain't natural and it's unhealthy and can lead to acute Bovine infestation.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-08-17 11:10:13 AM|| 2004-08-17 11:10:13 AM|| Front Page Top

#19 Hey Rex, what's a Bovine infestation? Is that like getting fucked by a bull?

Posted by Chris W. 2004-08-17 11:11:46 AM|| 2004-08-17 11:11:46 AM|| Front Page Top

#20 Chris W.: Well I gotta say I would have no basis of comparison so I can't help ya there. Regarding bovine infestation, the only way we can keep from being overrun by an out of control cattle population is to eat beef regularly....lots of it. Also helps to reduce that Bovine Flatulence thingy. Of course, there are no promises regarding Rex Flatus Horibilus

Posted by Rex Mundi 2004-08-17 11:44:24 AM|| 2004-08-17 11:44:24 AM|| Front Page Top

#21 Shipman: The economist you are thinking of was Julian Simon.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2004-08-17 11:46:41 AM|| 2004-08-17 11:46:41 AM|| Front Page Top

#22 There are three answers to this problem. (1) Force third world government to abandon idiotic protectionisms, socialist fantasies, and authoritarian governments that keep their nations poor. Richer nations have lower population growths. (2) Go to war. People die in war, with less people population growth problems are lessoned. (3) Force the rich nations, that without immigration would actually have zero or negative population growth to change their dietary habits and allow the third world to continue in their own version of hell.

To me the answer is simple. Use answer 1 as a targeting mechanism for answer 2 and totally ignore answer 3 as foolishness.

Posted by Yank 2004-08-17 11:48:37 AM|| [http://politicaljunky.blogspot.com] 2004-08-17 11:48:37 AM|| Front Page Top

#23 Who was the economist who made a wager with him about commodity prices 20 years ago....? That was Julian Simon.
See the link for more on the bet.

Posted by Biff Wellington 2004-08-17 11:52:16 AM|| 2004-08-17 11:52:16 AM|| Front Page Top

#24 Julian Simon = dearly departed genius.

Posted by Chris W. 2004-08-17 12:03:13 PM|| 2004-08-17 12:03:13 PM|| Front Page Top

#25 Actually Ehrlich was the "genius". He won a MacAurther Foundation genius grant--which is depressing. Simon was a genuinely good guy armed with facts, logic and common sense.

Posted by Classical_Liberal 2004-08-17 1:31:12 PM|| 2004-08-17 1:31:12 PM|| Front Page Top

#26 Wait a minute: isn't water vapour the worst of the greenhouse gasses, both as a percent of atmospheric volume and efficacy per unit volume?

In that case, don't we want to rapidly reduce the amount of air-borne H2O in order to reduce the threat of global warming?

Logically, therefore, we should all change to the Atkins diet as a personal sacrifice (O! my heart and arteries!) for the continuation of life on this planet...

Posted by trailing wife 2004-08-18 1:25:07 AM|| 2004-08-18 1:25:07 AM|| Front Page Top

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