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October 22, 2009
Eco-Moonbats Want You to Eat Your Pets
Posted by Gregory of Yardale at October 22, 2009 9:26 AM
That outpost of far-left insanity known as the green movement wants you to know that cats and dogs are "unsustainable," and you should switch to edible pets instead.
“If you have a German shepherd or similar-sized dog, for example, its impact every year is exactly the same as driving a large car around,” Brenda Vale said.
In a study published in New Scientist, they calculated a medium dog eats 164 kilograms of meat and 95kg of cereals every year. It takes 43.3 square metres of land to produce 1kg of chicken a year. This means it takes 0.84 hectares to feed Fido.
They compared this with the footprint of a Toyota Land Cruiser, driven 10,000km a year, which uses 55.1 gigajoules (the energy used to build and fuel it). One hectare of land can produce 135 gigajoules a year, which means the vehicle’s eco-footprint is 0.41ha – less than half of the dog’s.
Their logical, "reality-based" conclusion is that cats and dogs should be eliminated, and that people should keep chickens, rabbits, and iguanas instead... so their owners can eat them. Which, sounds to me like what people in the third world do.
Hat Tip: Watts Up with That
Comments
(Note for Lao, the image in the post above is humorous because the cat's facial expression implies disdain for the opinion that his species is environmentally unsustainable. However, no one is asserting that the cat is actually expressing disdain for the position, which the cat has probably not heard.)
Posted by: V the K at October 22, 2009 9:44 AM
Having pets is a luxury by definition, we don't keep cattle as pets, we keep non-edible furry parasite who shower us with love. Silly moonbats.
Posted by: Jay B at October 22, 2009 9:51 AM
V,
The cat certainly heard the opinion. He just can't be bothered responding to it as he is currently planning on licking himself for the rest of the afternoon.
Posted by: Richard C. at October 22, 2009 9:54 AM
I diagree Richard. Cats are far too intellegent to repond to such an assinine opinion. :)
Posted by: Farmer Ted at October 22, 2009 9:58 AM
Where's Joseph McCarthy when you need him?
Posted by: Tony at October 22, 2009 10:00 AM
If they take away the cats, then who are all the middle aged female moonbats out there going to talk to?
Posted by: mega at October 22, 2009 10:07 AM
Note for V the K. I have a cat and I have no intention of eating her.
Cats regularly express disdain for the entire human species, unless we happen to be providing them with food or strokes.
The comparison to a Toyota Land Cruiser fails to take into account the manufacturing of the vehicle, the energy used, the mining and transport of raw materials etc. etc.
I have no problem with academic flakes being mocked. These two deserve it.
Posted by: Lao at October 22, 2009 10:11 AM
I'm currently teaching my dog to eat Moonbat. But it seems to be causing her intestinal upset.
Posted by: Jenn of the Jungle at October 22, 2009 10:26 AM
Since November 2008, every day is April Fool's Day...except nobody ever yells, "APRIL FOOLS!" to tell us they were just kidding.
Next, the GreenNazis will be recommending that we eat our young.
Posted by: Sylvia at October 22, 2009 10:35 AM
Go all the way. Dump the damn foreign SUV and get a horse for transportation. When it get's old, eat it.
Posted by: man of few words at October 22, 2009 11:07 AM
Who funded the study? The Soylent Corporation?
Posted by: Anonymous Countermoonbat at October 22, 2009 11:09 AM
If they take away the cats, then who are all the middle aged female moonbats out there going to talk to?
Posted by: mega at October 22, 2009 10:07 AM
They'll talk to the little toy they have that takes two or more D size batteries instead.
Posted by: Moonbat Skullcracker at October 22, 2009 11:18 AM
Easy mega I love my three cats and they definately don't speak moonbat. :)
Posted by: Farmer Ted at October 22, 2009 11:20 AM
HUNGRY OUT OF WORK? EAT A ECO-FREAK MOONBAT
Posted by: SPURWING PLOVER at October 22, 2009 11:35 AM
HUNGRY OUT OF WORK? EAT A ECO-FREAK MOONBAT
The only problem is that they're stringy and they taste bad. It's also almost impossible to get the smell out of your house after you cook them.
Posted by: ccs at October 22, 2009 12:09 PM
Can you imagine a one of these moonbats actually plucking and gutting a chicken?
Anyway, I thought eating chicken was considered a moonbat sin.
Also, who the Hell is going to eat a frickin' IGUANA?
Posted by: Duncan Idaho at October 22, 2009 12:17 PM
Anyway, I thought eating chicken was considered a moonbat sin.
No kidding. Does PETA know these asswipes are advocating eating poor innocent little animals?
/member of the other PETA
// People Eating Tasty Animals
Posted by: Naqamel at October 22, 2009 1:31 PM
I believe my cats are most likely more intelligent than the average Moonbat Liberal.
Perhaps, we should feed Liberals to our pets?
Posted by: John Galt at October 22, 2009 2:35 PM
So now there is a movement that says that ANIMALS are bad for the Earth.
YOU STUPID LIBERALS HAVE SET THE STAGE FOR THIS! YOU CAN'T BLAME THIS ON ANYONE BUT YOURSELVES!
Posted by: KHarn at October 22, 2009 3:16 PM
Ah, don't you just love the oxymoron of left on left sacred cow slugfests?
Biofuel planting vs rainforest preservation.
Homosexual agenda vs Islam.
And now PETA vs. pet eaters.
Posted by: BURNING HOT at October 22, 2009 9:06 PM
Wonder how much "carbon footprint" results from idiotic studies such as this one.
Touch my cat, YOU'RE going to be the one gets barbequed.
Too bad she only eats dry food...
Posted by: Yosemite Sam at October 22, 2009 9:07 PM
"I'm currently teaching my dog to eat Moonbat. But it seems to be causing her intestinal upset."
Bad move, man, don't you know moonbat is the same substance going in as it is going out?
They have to be cleaned, plucked and the deadly pathogens seared out of them first.
Posted by: Yosemite Sam at October 22, 2009 9:11 PM
A funny joke for HALLOWEEN A MONSTER WALKS INTO A PET SHOP AND SAYS IDE LIKE HALFA DOZEN GUINEA PIGS, THE PET SHOP OWNER SAYS WOULD YOU LIKE THEM INA BOX? NO NEED TO SAID THE MONSTER I,LL EAT THEM HERE SQUAWK SQUAWK SQUAWK HYUK,HYUK,HYUK
Posted by: Flu-Bird at October 22, 2009 9:31 PM
What a VILE people the liberals are, first it was kill their children (a wonder they don't eat them!) and now it's eat their pets. They expose themselves more every day...
Posted by: TED at October 22, 2009 10:36 PM
"HUNGRY OUT OF WORK? EAT A ECO-FREAK MOONBAT"
That would be worse than eating a opossum, remember they are both scavengers and their germ riddled mouths are worse than Komodo dragons!
Posted by: TED at October 22, 2009 10:43 PM
Enviromentalism is a new age mental disorder the syptoms including acting rediculous telling everybody to treat the earth with respect becuase its their mother riding a bicucle on a blizzardy wintery day and catching a cold and walking around a night without even a toarch becuase your afraid the fireflies will be offended and wanting the free all the animals at the zoo and getting eaten by the rare maneating BIRD OF PARADISE
Posted by: REPLENDENT QUETZAL at October 23, 2009 7:59 AM
I thought when I named my dog "Stew" it was a joke. Now I find I'm ahead of the curve.
Maybe all the animals that the peta "shelters" kill can be put into cans.
MMMmmmMMM.
Posted by: czuch at October 23, 2009 8:05 AM
Everything has a carbon footprint. Yes, that means you stupid Moonbats. More than a cat or a dog by far. So I guess that makes you free game to eat. Carbon is a necessary ingredient for our environment to be healthy but there is a balance. Humans are the ones who threw it off, so eat people not the animals. Touch my animals and I will throw over my fire pit.
Posted by: Samantha at October 25, 2009 12:27 PM
