Eat Your Pets
On Thu, 1 Jun 2006 18:46:29 -0400, "Edward M. Kennedy"
> wrote:
>Pets waste natural resources and precious food while children
>in Africa starve. It takes 7 pounds of grain, 40 gallons of
>water, and two gallons of gasoline to deliver a pound of Alpo
>to Fido. Can you say global warming? Not only that, but pets
>produce CO2 just by breathing, and indirectly produce it via
>visits to the vet. Toss in all the pet accessories and you
>have even more wasted natural resources, plus they put fecal
>coliform bacteria in the watershed.
>
>Hello? What more do you need to eat your pet? Global warming,
>clean, available water, and starving children aren't enough?
>For every pound of Fido you eat, that's one less pound of cow
>and that much less gasoline turning into CO2. And pets tend
>to be a lot leaner than cows.
>
>So don't be selfish, do the right thing: Eat your pets. Asians
>have been doing it for eons -- do your part.
>
>--Tedward
>
For that matter - do yourself and trim the gene pool.
jim
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