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you're not supposed to eat onions like an apple
 
birdman said:
Are you really trying to say that if I drove my car while eating a hamburger I'd be having less of an environmental negative effect than if I drove my car while eating a tofu sandwich?
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If you are driving a Prius and eating a burger versus being true Alabama and driving a pick-up and eating tofu you would. :)
 
RJKarl said:
If you are driving a Prius and eating a burger versus being true Alabama and driving a pick-up and eating tofu you would. :)
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Really good point RJ. For discussion sake let's assume all things are equal except the food item.
 
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I think it was about 15-20 years ago when New Zealand passed a methane tax that would have been implemented on sheep farmers. A few days later a number of sheep owners showed up with truckloads of sheep shit and dumped it on the steps of their Parliament. Surprisingly. the law was reversed.
 
I find that onions make almost everything better when cooking most of the dishes I make for dinner.
 
"i don't like [basic ingredient in western cooking]!"

"yeah, right. It's in literally every dish that you love"
 
06deacon said:
I find that onions make almost everything better when cooking most of the dishes I make for dinner.
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My youngest went through a few months when he refused to eat anything with onions in it. Taco meat, spaghetti sauce, stir fry. It was very annoying.
 
PhDeac said:
My youngest went through a few months when he refused to eat anything with onions in it. Taco meat, spaghetti sauce, stir fry. It was very annoying.
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My kid deconstructs pizza and sandwiches. He won't eat veggies on either. He eats them separately.
 
birdman said:
Are you really trying to say that if I drove my car while eating a hamburger I'd be having less of an environmental negative effect than if I drove my car while eating a tofu sandwich?
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Nope. Reading comprehension. Scolding others for eating meat while you still drive a car is nonsensically hypocritical. Their choice to eat meat has a much smaller climate impact than your choice to continue driving.
 
Louis Gossett Jr said:
So in both instances he eats vegetables with a side tortilla.
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Love the ph joke but that’s actually what our kids get a lot. Its like their ideal dessert for some reason so we can get them to finish their food with the promise of tortillas.
 
DistrictDeacon said:
Nope. Reading comprehension. Scolding others for eating meat while you still drive a car is nonsensically hypocritical. Their choice to eat meat has a much smaller climate impact than your choice to continue driving.
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I think you are the one with the reading comprehension problem. What exactly did the link you provided have to do with meat consumption and it’s environmental impacts? I’ll say it again, did you know that there are other environmental issues than just climate change? I don’t think I even said climate change until you brought up driving. Climate change is only the third biggest cause of the biodiversity extinction crisis, behind habitat destruction for agriculture. Meat production takes 10 times the land space as vegetable protein production. There is no hypocrisy with saying meat consumption is bad for the environment and people should cut back. I am not even suggesting you have to eliminate it entirely, just cut back to a more sustainable level. Every little bit helps. You can make excuses and change the subject if you want, but it won’t change the fact that an vegetable based diet has a much smaller environmental impact than a diet with meat.
 
Raw, red onions are the harpies of the food world-defilers of all that they touch. I tolerate cooked onions in some dishes. My rule on salsa is that hot peppers must be listed before onions on the ingredients.
 
birdman said:
I think you are the one with the reading comprehension problem. What exactly did the link you provided have to do with meat consumption and it’s environmental impacts? I’ll say it again, did you know that there are other environmental issues than just climate change? I don’t think I even said climate change until you brought up driving. Climate change is only the third biggest cause of the biodiversity extinction crisis, behind habitat destruction for agriculture. Meat production takes 10 times the land space as vegetable protein production. There is no hypocrisy with saying meat consumption is bad for the environment and people should cut back. I am not even suggesting you have to eliminate it entirely, just cut back to a more sustainable level. Every little bit helps. You can make excuses and change the subject if you want, but it won’t change the fact that an vegetable based diet has a much smaller environmental impact than a diet with meat.
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Shaming people for eating meat while you still drive is like blaming someone for not turning off the tap when brushing their teeth while you run the sprinklers in the rain.

Stopping driving would have a much bigger impact than going veggie.
 
DistrictDeacon said:
Shaming people for eating meat while you still drive is like blaming someone for not turning off the tap when brushing their teeth while you run the sprinklers in the rain.

Stopping driving would have a much bigger impact than going veggie.
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Meat consumption has more negative environmental impacts that just climate change. Read it slowly and perhaps more than once.
 
Oh shit District and I are on the same side of this one. So rare.

If you mother fuckers would just get on board with my trillion dollar train infrastructure plan we could eat all the meat we want (which I do anyway)
 
DistrictDeacon said:
Shaming people for eating meat while you still drive is like blaming someone for not turning off the tap when brushing their teeth while you run the sprinklers in the rain.

Stopping driving would have a much bigger impact than going veggie.
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He has given an alternate to meat. What is your alternate to driving?
 
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