Go Vegetarian - Save the World!

[Aramike]

Originally Posted by Ilpalazzo

What would you say if I called you a brutish fossil, symbolic of a decayed era, gratefully forgotten?

I don't know ... thanks?

[August]

Originally Posted by Aramike

I don't know ... thanks?

Well *I* like you!

[Task Force]

LOL I WANT ME STEAK!!!

But how does he thing that stuff gets harvested... Hey buddy its the 21st century, we dont go out in the feild and pick stuff by hand anymore. Does a tractor make polution, yes, does chemicals dirty up the water, yes, do vegtables need to be transported by truck, yes... This guy kind of reminds me of someone from PETA...

[August]

Originally Posted by Task Force

LOL I WANT ME STEAK!!!

But how does he thing that stuff gets harvested... Hey buddy its the 21st century, we dont go out in the feild and pick stuff by hand anymore. Does a tractor make polution, yes, does chemicals dirty up the water, yes, do vegtables need to be transported by truck, yes... This guy kind of reminds me of someone from PETA...

Actually I've been eating hand picked vegetables all summer long.

[Task Force]

Originally Posted by August

Actually I've been eating hand picked vegetables all summer long.

yea but is the rest of the populas gonna eat hand picked vegtables... no there gonna go to the store and get a bunch of commercial stuff, that a farmer was going to grow... and a farmer isnt going to hire abunch of people to pick and help grow vegtables... no hese gonna pull out a tractor and use that to do that...

and if its a bad season, and theres not enough to go around, then there will be a world food crisis... and the meat will be gone...

[totodog]

We need mass genocides to reduce the population.

[Task Force]

or abunch of bad carrots...

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by totodog

We need mass genocides to reduce the population.

Locally that already takes place, Ruanda being a prime example. I recently have read an interesting analysis in a book about the genocide in ruanda, and understood that it has had very different reasons then what usually was reported. It was about populationpressure in extremely densed social environment, explosive social pressure due to the social order collapsing down to family levels, and simply not sufficient farming grounds available for all.

We know from animals experiments, that if you put too many rats into a cage, they start to attack, bite and kill each other, not only when food is lacking, but the stress is too much and turns them into zombies. That is what has happened in Ruanda. Other examples could be given, too.

So far such events are locally only. But in case of Africa and SE Asia, they could turn into wildfires including the whole continent. It could also affect the megacities in the rest of the world, which includes Western metropoles becoming ungovernable. In parts and some sectors, many huge cities in the West already are that: ungovernable. Rioting, anarchy, civil war looming under the horizon. Burning suburbs in Paris, racial riots in LA, war-like street fighting in Rio, and the police in Berlin no longer daring to enter certain sectors of the city anymore, are just the prelude. You can have as much high tech as you want, sooner or later the police is fighting in a lost post.

Think of it as the Rat Opera.

[Shearwater]

Another example of how a reasonable premise can be ruined by a bad conclusion of what should be done about it. People don't take too well to being moralized, but because of his doing so many people will probably doubt his statistics in the first place.

[Ilpalazzo]

Originally Posted by Aramike

I don't know ... thanks?

Have you ever figured out that three seashells thing?

According to Stallone (apparently);

OK, this may be bordering on the grotesque, but the way it was explained to me by the writer is you hold two seashells like chopsticks, pull gently and scrape what’s left with the third. You asked for it…. Be careful what you ask for, sorry.

oh and hey I found a drawn image of the process. Would you like to see?