Eat a Dog, Save the Earth - Truckers' Trucking Forum

Baack · **^ Top** #1 4 Weeks Ago

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SUVs owners are often castigated by treehuggers for their Earth-unfriendly lifestyle. A new book argues that pets are just as bad.
New Zealand authors Robert and Brenda Vale's book, "Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living" is an exhaustive analysis of the environmental impact of common pets such as cats and dogs. The authors studied the carbon emissions created by pets, including the ingredients in their food and the land required to grow it. And the results don't bode well for Fido, who compares poorly to that SUV.
The Values noted that a medium dog consumes 90 grams of meat and 156 grams of cereals daily in its recommended 300-gram portion of dried dog food. They then determined that Fido wolfs down about 164 kilograms of meat and 95 kilograms of cereals per year.
It takes 43.3 square meters of land to generate 1 kilogram of chicken per year — far more for beef and lamb — and 13.4 square meters to generate a kilogram of cereals. So that gives him a footprint of 0.84 hectares. For a big dog such as a German shepherd, the figure is 1.1 hectares.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,...:b28459635:z10

kickin chicken · **^ Top** #2 4 Weeks Ago

Ummm......Aren't We a Bit Late To This Dinner Table???

Now, I am really worried about eating from the local Chinese Restaurant

LOL

rookietrucker · **^ Top** #3 4 Weeks Ago

Mmmmmm, bbq chi-woww-wa

I'm j/k, I don't cook or eat dogs. When I go over to a friends house they have a barking chihuahua. I remind that dog there is a grill outside big enough for them.

Baack · **^ Top** #4 4 Weeks Ago

Spacer · **^ Top** #5 4 Weeks Ago

I'll paraphrase another movement...

They can come for Lucy and Twizzler, and they'll get 'em. Teeth first.

(Who am I kidding... they don't call their silenced MP-5s "hush puppies" for nothing)

woofless · **^ Top** #6 2 Weeks Ago

Oh fer cryin' out loud, it amazes me what people can write about and it actually sells....lol....does anybody actually take this stuff seriously?

My friend's uber-obnoxious and ill-mannered children surely consume more resources than my dogs do....so I assume we can eat them after all the dogs have been made into tasty sammitches? Mmmm....soylent green anyone?

I don't know about carbon emissions, but my dogs' methane emissions sometimes make the house smell like a toxic waste hazard....maybe I should write a book?

dairyman · **^ Top** #7 1 Week Ago

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Originally Posted by woofless

Oh fer cryin' out loud, it amazes me what people can write about and it actually sells....lol....does anybody actually take this stuff seriously?

My friend's uber-obnoxious and ill-mannered children surely consume more resources than my dogs do....so I assume we can eat them after all the dogs have been made into tasty sammitches? Mmmm....soylent green anyone?

I don't know about carbon emissions, but my dogs' methane emissions sometimes make the house smell like a toxic waste hazard....maybe I should write a book?

please write the book! i'll buy it! ditto on the whole thing,people will actually write and sell this stuff!!!! geezzz!

dairyman · **^ Top** #8 1 Week Ago

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Originally Posted by Baack

got to show this to the wife's dad,he has beagles.funny!! thanks for poster!

Biscuit75 · **^ Top** #9 1 Week Ago

I know Jake is trying to deplete the ozone layer around the Columbus area. That dog can fart!!!

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