Comments on: Meat http://veryflatcat.com/2007/08/26/meat/ This is the excreta from Dave's head Thu, 20 Nov 2008 19:45:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Will http://veryflatcat.com/2007/08/26/meat/#comment-46 Will Fri, 14 Mar 2008 08:36:55 +0000 http://veryflatcat.com/2007/08/26/meat/#comment-46 Dave, if we don't eat all of those cows then they will continue to pollute our atmosphere with greenhouse gasses! It is our duty as global citizens to stop this bovine madness before things get too far! Dave, if we don’t eat all of those cows then they will continue to pollute our atmosphere with greenhouse gasses! It is our duty as global citizens to stop this bovine madness before things get too far!

]]> By: Erwin McManus on Eating Meat on the Streets of Athens http://veryflatcat.com/2007/08/26/meat/#comment-43 Erwin McManus on Eating Meat on the Streets of Athens Fri, 08 Feb 2008 08:36:36 +0000 http://veryflatcat.com/2007/08/26/meat/#comment-43 [...] piece was included to gratuitously offend Bertus!, who is a vegetarian. (Dave, you’re more than welcome to be offended as well, if you [...] [...] piece was included to gratuitously offend Bertus!, who is a vegetarian. (Dave, you’re more than welcome to be offended as well, if you [...]

]]> By: Dave http://veryflatcat.com/2007/08/26/meat/#comment-29 Dave Sun, 26 Aug 2007 13:12:38 +0000 http://veryflatcat.com/2007/08/26/meat/#comment-29 Capitalism is only a solution to scarce resources in as much as you can account for the cost of the resource. Unfortunately, government is the only organisation that can enforce the accounting. Yes, it means government policy and associated taxes. The carbon cap and trade schemes are already implementing some of this. As for wiping out 95% of humanity, tempting as it its, I just do not crave meat enough to go to the effort. As for the road to vegetarianism: After quite a bit of thinking, i discovered that the best route to vegetarianism is to just stop eating meat :-) Capitalism is only a solution to scarce resources in as much as you can account for the cost of the resource. Unfortunately, government is the only organisation that can enforce the accounting. Yes, it means government policy and associated taxes. The carbon cap and trade schemes are already implementing some of this. As for wiping out 95% of humanity, tempting as it its, I just do not crave meat enough to go to the effort.

As for the road to vegetarianism: After quite a bit of thinking, i discovered that the best route to vegetarianism is to just stop eating meat :-)

]]> By: Hugo http://veryflatcat.com/2007/08/26/meat/#comment-28 Hugo Sun, 26 Aug 2007 10:08:18 +0000 http://veryflatcat.com/2007/08/26/meat/#comment-28 Of course, if we just kill off 95% of all humans, we'd be able to eat all the meat we want! Of course, if we just kill off 95% of all humans, we’d be able to eat all the meat we want!

]]> By: Hugo http://veryflatcat.com/2007/08/26/meat/#comment-27 Hugo Sun, 26 Aug 2007 07:53:47 +0000 http://veryflatcat.com/2007/08/26/meat/#comment-27 The way I understand capitalism and the free market, and it's solution to scarce resources, I think taking it to the extreme would require privatising the atmosphere, at least "owning" the atmosphere, where the owners would then sell you the right to produce CO2? ;-) (How else do you get people to pay for their ecological impact? Taxation, maybe, which is more along the lines of "government-owned atmosphere"?) I'm not a huge capitalist/free-market fanatic. Last time I filled in a political quiz, I found myself surprisingly far left. This is why I'm trying to figure out more about the "benefits" of capitalism, and the problems of communism - apparently one of the big problems was the wasting of resources...? On the meat front: I'm already inspired to be more appreciative of the meat that I eat. ;-) (My meat consumption isn't particularly high, but with this awareness, I might reduce it a little further.) When I have time again, I'll go do some reading about nutrition, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarian_nutrition The way I understand capitalism and the free market, and it’s solution to scarce resources, I think taking it to the extreme would require privatising the atmosphere, at least “owning” the atmosphere, where the owners would then sell you the right to produce CO2? ;-) (How else do you get people to pay for their ecological impact? Taxation, maybe, which is more along the lines of “government-owned atmosphere”?)

I’m not a huge capitalist/free-market fanatic. Last time I filled in a political quiz, I found myself surprisingly far left. This is why I’m trying to figure out more about the “benefits” of capitalism, and the problems of communism - apparently one of the big problems was the wasting of resources…?

On the meat front: I’m already inspired to be more appreciative of the meat that I eat. ;-) (My meat consumption isn’t particularly high, but with this awareness, I might reduce it a little further.) When I have time again, I’ll go do some reading about nutrition, e.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetarian_nutrition

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