Message Number: |
625 |
From: |
Daniel Reeves <dreeves Æ umich.edu> |
Date: |
Fri, 26 Jan 2007 15:10:12 -0500 (EST) |
Subject: |
Re: more reasons to be vegetarian |
I definitely agree that that's an upper bound!
Can we tighten it a bit?
For example, no fair counting medical costs -- you'll pay for those
yourself later.
(That website really doesn't deserve to be looked at. 55 square feet of
rainforest lost per hamburger? Puh-leez.)
New proposal: set aside for an environmental charity an amount equal to
what you spend on environmentally unfriendly products, including
factory-farmed animal products.
Who's in on that one?
--- \/ FROM Erica O'Connor AT 07.01.26 11:10 (Today) \/ ---
> (very) aproximately 100 yootles per hamburger
> http://www.spirulinasource.com/earthfoodch7a.html
> -Erica
>
>> I have a proposal: let's estimate the long term
>> environmental cost of
>> eating a hamburger (ideas on how solicited -- don't
>> say it's impossible,
>> we can at least put an upper bound on it) and pledge
>> to set aside that
>> much money for an environmental charity per
>> hamburger (etc) we eat.
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