"PETA claims that according to U.N., animals raised as food stock create more greenhouse gas then all the vehicles combined."

Shouldn't we be killing and eating more of them then?

save the earth! eat a cow! ;)

I hate Peta.

I hate peta but they do bring up a good point. Aside from the green house stuff, the meat industry does pollute a lot. They are well known for dumping tons of liquid waste illegally. And the people that work around poultry are very likely to develop resperetory diseases when they are around the caged hens; which of course are crammed in together with poor ventilation. (imagine how the birds feel)

Al gore is such a hypocrit, they are simply wasting their time thinking that he will do anything to help the earth if it inconveniences him. (notice how no one brought up family farms)

::gets off of soapbox::

I think Al Gore's getting a bad rap by being labeled a hypocrite. The good he's doing FAR out weighs any imperfections that he has. To suggest that the only way his green message is valid is if he wasn't producing ANY negative effects whatsoever is simply naive and overly simplistic. If someone with those credentials did stand up, they'd simply be marginalised and written off as an extremist anyway.

I agree 100%.

Especially since one of the head PETA guys is diabetic and uses insulin which we developed by - OOPS! - animal testing. Talk about hypocrisy.

Cows are cute and all but PETA has never quite explained what will happen to them after we stop eating them. Basically, they would cease to exist, since there is no such thing as a "wild" cow, or chicken, or whatever. They have wild ancestors, but those are genetically distinct. Domestic animals have nowhere to go - ask Australians what happens when you let domestic goats run wild.

Also, PETA wants people not to have pets. They try to take away my dog or cats, they gonna get a shovel upside the head.

Without going through the PETA handbook, my guess is that they'd just grandfather them all out. I can't see them being pro-euthanasia, it's just a waste.

We could keep a few in zoos I guess. Just to amaze our ancestors that we used to actually *EAT* those things.

Man... I hate PETA and all (save for when they get nekkid) but that is just stupid logic. If not for us eating the cows (mmm.. steak and burgers and tacos...) there would be no need for us to farm them and keep them domesticated.

Just like there's no need for us to keep giraffes, rhinos and pandas.


...oh, hang on.

I agree, his message is valid. But it is hard to respect someone who crusades against a cause when they don't fallow through with the simplest things.

It's not hard to figure out what would happen, we stop breeding them (this would be terribly gradual) and they become wild. I know for a fact that chickens can survive wild in nature (ever crossed an agery rooster?) and there are cows that free roam all over the plains so it's not like they wont find a way to survive. The ones we have created through bad breeding and hormone injections wouldn't do well but the famil raised ones would fare pretty well.

The natural enviroment they run wild in on the other hand...

Peta tends to have an extremely loose grasp on how an ecosystem actually works. The wild is not the perfect dreamland they build it up to be, it's fierce competition: Loser dies.

That is precisely why it works.

I don't know about PETA. I think they're all crazy from what I hear. Al Gore's movie "Inconvenient Truth" is great. Some (Sean Hannity and Bill O'Reilly) call it propaganda. I thought it was really interesting.