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India tells West to quit eating beef for the sake of our planet!

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India has urged the West to give up eating beef to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming.

The environment minister, Jairam Ramesh, said if the world abandoned beef consumption, emissions would be dramatically reduced and global warming would slow down.

"The solution to cut emissions is to stop eating beef. It leads to emission of methane which is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide," he said.

"The best thing for us, India, is we are not a beef-eating nation.

The United States, the world's largest emitter along with China, is also the world's greatest beef-eating nation and consumes 25 per cent more than Europe.

His comments follow a call last month by Lord Stern, the author of a British Government study on climate change, for people to give up eating meay to reduce emissions. "Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases," said Lord Stern. "It puts enormous pressure on the world's resources. A vegetarian diet is better."

Hindus are forbidden to eat beef and India has more vegetarians than any other country in the world. More than 30 per cent of its 1.1 billion people do not eat meat at all.

According to the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, livestock is responsible for 18 per cent of the the Earth's greenhouse gas emissions. Cows produce harmful methane gas and environmentalists argue beef production causes greater damage than any other farming because it requires far more land and water than for any other form of animal husbandry.
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6 comments // India tells West to quit eating beef for the sake of our planet!

  • tallmansam
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    • Of course the cows are sacred to the Brahmins in India. You won't find anyone
      singing the song of "old McDonald's farm" Corporation in the country where Buddhism began. It's a shame though that they had to appeal to others' sense of survival by means of others' selfishness to get their point across. Like them, I'm a Buddhist too, and thus also a vegetarian. Oh, I won't lie to you and tell you that like all other human meat eaters, I've suddenly. " magically " lost my taste for blood. My aunt & uncle had cows on their farm they'd have slaughtered, and we were invited to eat beef as we were all fed the specious propaganda that "meat makes you strong". But despite the alluring aroma, I associate eating beef with what it really is: A guaranteed way to get heart disease, heart attacks, paralyzing strokes, atherosclerosis, and burst blood vessels, with premature death from uncontrollable internal bleeding. If you've ever tasted Indian cuisine, you know that it appeals to all the tastes the human tongue has, it's very healthy, and it makes you feel like a human being, and not like a an animal that weighs a ton. It has to be a drag to feel tired after eating. I've since learned to associate how I feel after eating vegan food
      with the blessing it truly is. The Earth doesn't need saving. It will go on quite well
      without any stupid human monkeys around to pollute it, and fuck it up. What the Indians were trying to tell you is called Karma. What goes around, comes around.
      So if humans finaly smarten up enough to realize that Corporations will feed you to their foreign war for profit meat grinder as long as you will have cows fed to your meat grinder, then Jesus' Golden Rule is understood to apply to all warm blooded
      creatures too. Even if you don't believe they're your reincarnated relatives, making you cannibals. Bovines are beautiful creatures, and more than deserving of human
      compassion. I don't know about you, but I'd rather eat real ice cream than beef anyday. I bet Sudhartha would agree.

    • 3 years ago
  • maasanova
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    • I'm confused, wouldn't it be good to kill the cows then? Indians just keep the cows alive, which produces ghg's. Maybe we just need to start only eating veal?

    • 3 years ago
  • Mr_Blue_
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