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Meat and carbon emissions in the news Posted Dec 04, 2008, 01:41:51 PM

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NY Times articles

I found this interesting and towards the end even hilarious.  Some people want to slap a sin tax on beef and pork and that immediately raised warning bells in my brain for certain religious groups who might be for this.

Another quote that got me thinking was this line.  “Of course for the environment it’s better to eat beans than beef, but if you want to eat beef for New Year’s, you’ll know which beef is best to buy,”  I propose a serious governmental study on the impact on the enviornment if ever American stop eating their quota of beef and instead converted it to beans and how much emmissions would be released into the ozone and it's impact on global warming.

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Re: Meat and carbon emissions in the news Posted Dec 04, 2008, 02:16:55 PM

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Whatever you think the negative externality from beef is (emissions, health, animal cruelty) I'm not 100% against a pigovian tax on it.  Id love to see this study too.  Don't beans make you fart?  Heh.  Methane is a powerful greenhouse gas.  I'd love to see some government guys talk about farts on the senate floor.

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Re: Meat and carbon emissions in the news Posted Jan 04, 2009, 11:38:25 AM

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Not a big fan of taxes, especially on pleasures or vices, well generally on anything beyond which is fair or essential to run a government.  Essentially it is a slippery slope.  I prefer education and let people make up their mind, despite the fact they might ignore the information, good judgement or give I don't care attitude, that's what I love about this country.

Anyway, I read a new article in one of my foodie magazines that was devoted to eating green, either Bon Apetite or Gourmet.  Families can chip in to buy a cow from a farmer, and it yields about 200 lbs of meat after butchering, and it is about 4.50 lbs.  I don't know about you guys, but hambuger meat where I am at, 80% beef, 20% fat is 3.99 a lbs.  That 200 lbs probably yields filet mignons, porterhouses, sirloins, roasts, chuck.  All the goodies and then the weekday casual cuts.  Heck, I bet they don't even include the off cuts like ox tail or tongue which I would gladly buy up too.  Ox tail soup yummy,  taco lengua is probably not up everyone's alley but I can braise it in soy, and then slice it cold like salami.


I can see myself doing this in a few years when I got more than one mouth to feed.

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