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10-23-2009, 01:41 PM #1
Dogs use up more energy resources than a car
Dogs use up more energy resources than a car, authors claim
In their book Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living, New Zealand-based architects Robert and Brenda Vale say keeping a medium-sized dog has the same ecological impact as driving 10,000km a year in a 4.6 litre Land Cruiser.
Calculating that the modern Fido chows through about 164kg of meat and 95kg of cereals a year, the Vales estimated the ecological footprint of cats and dogs, based on the amount of land needed to grow common brands of pet food...
...Constructing and driving the jeep for a year requires 0.41 hectares of land, while growing and manufacturing a dog's food takes about 0.84 ha - or 1.1 ha in the case of a large dog such as a German shepherd.
Meat-eating swells the eco-footprint of canines, and felines are not that much better, the Vales found.
The average cat's eco-footprint, 0.15 ha, weighs in at slightly less than a Volkswagen Golf, but still 10 times a hamster's 0.014 ha - which is itself half the eco cost of running a plasma television.
OK "global warming" warriors, time to get rid of the dog.
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10-23-2009, 01:42 PM #2
I've got mine marinating right now at home in the fridge!!! Teriyaki Beagle, mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm he's gonna taste goood!!!
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10-23-2009, 02:01 PM #3
so.....I guess the Chinese are doing their part to combat Global Warming. One "Chicken" fried rice at a time.
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10-23-2009, 02:24 PM #4
Id like to put my eco-footprints all over some of these "Earthers".....GET A REAL JOB, otherwise you serve no purpose to the world and are only a Carbon Burden.
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10-25-2009, 05:57 AM #5Assistant General Manager
I think Mastiff burger sounds better. Give me your recipe:
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10-25-2009, 11:05 AM #6
I find it highly amusing how people like you and Mike feel the need to volunteer to be apologists for irresponsibility in the private sector. Ford and GM aren't going to give you any money for speaking on their behalf and saying it's peachy keen like a jelly bean for them to contaminate the environment to their crunchy black hearts' content, but I'm sure they're delighted you're doing it.
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10-25-2009, 11:36 AM #7
The only problem with the article is it calculates the manufacturing/use of a car for a year. Where do the materials to make the car come from? Are metals not excavated?
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10-25-2009, 02:36 PM #8
so Michael Vick was actually trying to save the Earth????
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10-25-2009, 03:06 PM #9
Heh heh...
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10-25-2009, 07:00 PM #10
As usual, you have paid 0.0000% attention to anything we have said on the topic and formed what you believe our opinions to be for us. The only problem is you do that all the time, yet you're very rarely correct in your assumptions. If I were you, I'd get tired of being wrong all the time...
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Originally Posted by JeRmZ 
