Dogs twice as bad as SUV's for environment
 

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091220...inganimalsfood

Man's best friend could be one of the environment's worst enemies, according to a new study which says the carbon pawprint of a pet dog is more than double that of a gas-guzzling sports utility vehicle.

Big brother wants to control everything. Every single aspect of everyone's lives. I am sure we will add a pet tax to the very very long list of additional taxes coming soon.

nah they will have some system where all pet dogs must be infertile, only breeders will be allowed to have fertile dogs/cats . Then they will do the same thing with humans about 50 yrs later

Al Gore touches my dog I'll kick his ass.


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Or I'll have my dog bite his ankles.

Is it even possible these days to impart information without people thinking you're judging them negatively?

If it's a proven fact that pet owners have a larger carbon footprint, then just suck up the reality! Nobody is saying you shouldnt be permitted to own the damn thing and feed it the most expensive endangered meat from the most remote location. Just someone stating some data regarding such things.

That's okay. My dog keeps me from driving as much.

Stupid Germans already have it.

Maybe it´s a good idea to do it the other way round.

It's what actions will be taken due to the data that concerns me.

Well then when some action comes to some congress or governing body concerning pets, attend the meeting and vote it down.

It's just a book that some reporter decided would be a fine "human interest" story if they pretended it was a threat to pet owners. We should be more pissed at this type of bullshit "reporting" than anything in the story itself.

If you want a good eco-animal, get some egg laying hens. You get free eggs, fertilizer for your garden, and an occasional chicken dinner.

viva revolution

So maybe I should use my SUV to hit all those stupid dogs running the streets here :)

Eeep I have both. Oh well...I recycle a lot, should offset my foot print.

They're always coming up with some new bullshit to throw at us.

I know it takes 500 barrels of oil to put a carrot on my dinner table, and 2 billion tricarboflorons are released when I use a flashlight -- so now my dog is the problem?

I hear restaurants are already starting to adjust menus to give room for various dog breeds they will be serving.

Lets hope so. It is amazing we even allow people to have pets in this day and age. I know lots of people are lonely and it takes the place of friends etc but as a society maybe those people could grow up or something?

You probably have a pet rock on your desk right now.



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The problem is not that people have pets, it's what they feed them.

Pets used to live mainly on leftovers. They didn't mind it, it was cheap for the owners, and it had very little impact on the environment. A situation that didn't need fixing.

Along came the pet food industry, convincing people that their pets needed "special" gourmet foods. People bought the line and bought the food. Now, the pet food industry is worth over $11 billion annually in the US alone, and over a third of all pet dogs in the US are overweight.

And of course it has an environmental impact, too. The meat that is used in pet food comes from factory farms, which feed the livestock high-calorie food consisting of corn, wheat, soy, etc. Those crops take lots of land to grow, but even more importantly, lots of oil - oil for fertilizer, oil for transportation, oil to run farm equipment, etc.

The only ones who benefit from this all are the pet food companies and the farmers. Pet owners, pets and the environment all suffer.

Al Gore trys to touch my dog and that will be the last one he every touches.. with his hands at least.

Yeah but SUV owners are bigger assholes than dog owners. By a bit.

Here's my argument in favour of licensed breeding, both canine and human.

As a man of numbers, how many billion tricarboflorons are released when I use a fleshlight ?:Graucho

that's measured in jizzoflorons. So that number would be 2.34 million jizzoflorons.

Fuck global government
Fuck the global warming SCAM
Fuck Africa

I'm going to go rip the fucking cats off my BMW and run higher boost with 94 octane doing burnouts over hippie corpses

they should have shot the fat bitch and her dog

white trash fat bitch should have her rolls chewed on...see how she likes it...
6 months in jail...too light....two yrs, tubes tied so she cant bred children to teach her stupidity, if has kids, take them away so she doesnt teach them ignorance...

poor dog was put down because its own is a dumb fuck....

Dumbass.

this carbon footprint crap is becoming more and more dumb with every study