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February 16, 2009
Governmedia Sets Sights on Hamburgers
Enjoy hamburgers while you can. The media proclaims that they cause global warming — inevitably a prelude to legal restrictions.
Hamburgers are allegedly the "Hummers of food" largely because of the environmental menace of bovine flatulence. Authorities have decided that livestock accounts for 18% of the greenhouse gas emissions that have made for such a sweltering winter. We are told that eating meat more than once a week is an unnecessary luxury that damages the planet. Also, we should stop consuming dairy products.
When our current government's Cloward-Piven economic policies reduce us to a diet of mush, at least we'll know it's for the good of the polar bears.
On a tip from nancz.
Posted by Van Helsing at February 16, 2009 1:02 PM
Comments
Soylent green is the worlds most perfect food.
Posted by: Eric at February 16, 2009 1:17 PM
I prefer Soylent Yellow - Soylent Green smells too much like old peoples houses.
Soylent Red is ok but it needs alot of ketchup.
Posted by: William R. Simonson - BD Soylent at February 16, 2009 1:41 PM
And the race is on, between the moonbats and the Muslims, to see who's more successful in taking out of life everything that makes it worth living...
Posted by: Conservigilant at February 16, 2009 1:55 PM
(From a community radio program that was on to this claim. An old gardener is speaking:)
Well, you sees, it's that there methane. Now they gets all mealy mouthed about it. When they talks about methane emissions from a cow they akshully mean a fart. Like that. Oops sorry about that.
Its a fart.
Now a fart is CH4. One carbon atom 4 hydrogen. It's not carbon dioxide. This is just something to give you a little scare. A diamond is carbon, but you wont hear nobody talk about destroying diamonds because a diamond is not carbon dioxide. So this is what is technically known in the trade as horseshit.
And there's a fatal flaw in her argument. Y'see the reason that cows fart more than pigs is because a cow's diet is basically a salad. So this gal wants you to eat salads, instead of the cow eating a salad. And what will be the result? why instead of the cow doing it, you will do it. Now I ask you, in the name of decency and etiquette. Is it better that the cow lets one go in a field or that you do in the car?
This is what us gardeners call mock science. You will always get grants if you put the word carbon in your application. Carbon and the Napoleonic Wars, Carbon's influence in the Bible, Carbon Dioxide and the postcard industry. Carbon and carrots. Carbon and President Obama.
Posted by: Jim at February 16, 2009 2:00 PM
So when we stop eating beef, we'll have a lot of cattle roaming around, farting. What will they do then, put the cattle in front of the firing squads?
Posted by: KHarn at February 16, 2009 2:01 PM
JIM;
You posted while I was writing mine. That was PRICELESS!!
Posted by: KHarn at February 16, 2009 2:05 PM
Jim,
Zen and the Art of Carbon-Resistant LGBT-Friendly Motorcycle Maintenance.
Think it'll sell?
Posted by: Conservigilant at February 16, 2009 2:06 PM
This is an easy fix: Make burgers from polar bear meat.
Posted by: Montag (matt) at February 16, 2009 2:06 PM
Montag,
An inventive proposition, but palin' in comparison to another one I heard of.
Posted by: Conservigilant at February 16, 2009 2:11 PM
Naw, it's just they don't like cows, and it's not good enough to watch them get exterminated one at a time, they want the poor things to go extinct. That's just rood.
Posted by: Mr Evilwrench at February 16, 2009 2:16 PM
More moonbattery:
http://www.eatlowcarbon.org/
IS MY LUNCH CAUSING GLOBAL WARMING?
Was it at Taco Bell?
Posted by: suitepotato at February 16, 2009 2:38 PM
Matt
"This is an easy fix: Make burgers from polar bear meat."
Just don't eat the liver--it's so full of Vitamin A it could kill you.
http://animals.howstuffworks.com/mammals/eat-polar-bear-liver1.htm
Posted by: SnowSnake at February 16, 2009 2:40 PM
They can have my burger when they pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
Posted by: Jimbo at February 16, 2009 2:43 PM
You got that right, Jimbo.
Posted by: Karin at February 16, 2009 2:56 PM
Here in Florida, some of us have been eating bureaucrats for a long time. When FDLE investigators show up, we just say that the alligators must have got them. Hence Florida is a right to work state with no state income tax. Additional signs include the state's edge is populated by rich people, and they are surrounded by fresh seafood at reasonable prices. Farts are not common here, but are untaxed as well.
Posted by: Mockingbird at February 16, 2009 3:04 PM
Mockingbird: I find bureaucrats to be a bit gamey and fatty for my liking, although their intrinsic laziness does keep the meat nice and tender. They are only worth hunting for sport.
Posted by: CoderInCrisis at February 16, 2009 3:29 PM
"CoderInCrisis at February 16, 2009 3:29 PM"
Naah, they're too stupid and slow to be much sport, but I have to admit that their FAT WALLETS and THICK SKULLS will sometimes stop a bullet; that does even the odds a bit.
Posted by: KHarn at February 16, 2009 3:34 PM
arent the oceans running out of plankton yet?
even though i just ate, im going to do my part to destroy the environment, and have a nice rare burger..
Posted by: john aka schwein at February 16, 2009 4:01 PM
mcdonalds = obesity = diabetes and heart disease and cancer = high medical insurance premiums for everyone
Posted by: Anonymous at February 16, 2009 5:04 PM
Moonbats seem to forget that by conservative estimates, over 40 million buffalo thundered across the Great Plains before the Europeans arrived. No doubt farting all the way.
The buffalo farted, too.
Posted by: Smokey at February 16, 2009 5:15 PM
I guess a reasonable beef substitute will be all the people deemed unfit to receive health care in the USSA...
"Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth." 1 Timothy 4:1-3, King James Version
Posted by: Sage at February 16, 2009 5:38 PM
Ever seen Texas cattlemen really mad? Hang on.
Posted by: Laredo Dude at February 16, 2009 6:08 PM
If Obama tries to do something about this, he'll have stepped on the moonbats, the oil industry, conservatives, the auto industry, the bankers, and the cattlemen. Is there anyone he hasn't ticked off yet?
Posted by: Scaramouche at February 16, 2009 6:15 PM
Be careful people or you know what they say " you will become the thing you hate" ...in this case Far Out RW Moonbats.
I mean seriously... just look at what this blog is becoming... first you think Obama is personally going to come to your house and take your guns, now today your worried that your precious hamburgers are going to be taken away... you really really think that!? Sheesh!!
Can't you find something more serious to get all bent out of shape and spew forth your hate about ?
Posted by: Fez at February 16, 2009 6:18 PM
Soylent Green lets make it from all those granola munching vegans and especialy that carck-pot hindu doctors LETS PRECESS ALL THOSE LIBERAL MOONBATS INTO SOYLENT GREEN
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at February 16, 2009 6:41 PM
Hey listen, Pez, the proposed cow fart tax will cost the average cattle farmer $200,000, and they have already said they can't afford it. So no, the hamburgers won't be taken away, just the beef they're made from. That's just the beginning of the EPA's trouble.
Posted by: Sage at February 16, 2009 7:33 PM
first you think Obama is personally going to come to your house and take your guns
We don't believe that. Not at all.
Obama is President of the United States. He has brainwashed minions like you for that. If and when The One decides to take people's guns, you'll be here defending his every utterance on the subject.
Posted by: Evil Otto at February 16, 2009 7:57 PM
Posted by: BURNING HOT at February 16, 2009 8:06 PM
200 years ago,Lewis and Clark reported bison herds that blacked the plains from horizon to horizon. For all intents and purposes, a bison are cattle after an extensive body building program. Think of how much methane these beasts put into the air. Before that were herds of mammoth, basically elephants adapted to survive in cold weather. There have been megafauna putting CO2 and CH4 into the atmosphere since there was a North America
Posted by: James McEnanly at February 16, 2009 11:04 PM
Posted by: Jim at February 16, 2009 2:00 PM
Forget carbon. Dyhydrogen monoxide is the real threat!
Posted by: mandible claw at February 17, 2009 3:59 AM
^^ Check the comments on that vid as well.
Penn and Teller are apparently funded by Exxon -- who knew. I thought they made a living by doing magic shows in Vegas.
Posted by: mandible claw at February 17, 2009 4:11 AM
Jimbo @ 2:43, you took the words right out of my mouth!
Posted by: Adam at February 17, 2009 5:04 AM
Bastards will be after my horses next.
*checks ammo supplies...must buy more...*
Posted by: Brooke at February 17, 2009 6:09 AM
MMMMMmmmmmmm burger.
Ever have an In-n-Out?
I got fired for making a 10X10 on my lunch break.
10 meats, 10 cheeses.
hey, they take away cows they take away cheese!!!
maybe mothers milk cheese,like ben-n-jerrys peta icecream.
I gotta go outside and throw up again.
Posted by: czuch at February 17, 2009 7:34 AM
Darned to heck if im going to be some blasted vegetarian just to make those jerks at PETA happy and the same to the PCRM,CSPI,UNION of CONCERNED SCIENTISTS,or even stupidheads like MORGAN SPURLOCK or JEREMY RIFKIN or that silly mindless ol hen MARION NESTLY
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at February 17, 2009 8:17 AM

