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  Would you become a Veggie to save the planet

  by eyeslice in

  1. watchtower
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  quite a debate has been going on in the media this week regarding carbon emissions and it has been suggested that we should either become vegetarians or at the very least drastically reduce our meat consumption.. lets face it .

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  eyeslice

  I read "Diet for a new America"

  I was thinking of reading this myself. John Robbins seems an interesting guy - the heir to the Baskin Robbins chain who has turned his back on big business.
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  Would you become a Veggie to save the planet

  by eyeslice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  quite a debate has been going on in the media this week regarding carbon emissions and it has been suggested that we should either become vegetarians or at the very least drastically reduce our meat consumption.. lets face it .

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  eyeslice

  leavingwt

  Nope.

  I suggest that you change your avatar then - Paul McCartney is perhaps the best know veggie on the planet. lol
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  Would you become a Veggie to save the planet

  by eyeslice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  quite a debate has been going on in the media this week regarding carbon emissions and it has been suggested that we should either become vegetarians or at the very least drastically reduce our meat consumption.. lets face it .

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  Finally Free

  The response was to consume lean meat

  I suggest that you read a book called the China Study. It argues that there are absolutely no health benefits to eating meat over eating a plant based diet. Of the so-called 'essential' elements of our diets, that is amino acids and protiens that we as humans cannot produce in our own bodies, only vitamin B12 is problematic and this can be obtained from dairy or yeast based products.
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  Would you become a Veggie to save the planet

  by eyeslice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  quite a debate has been going on in the media this week regarding carbon emissions and it has been suggested that we should either become vegetarians or at the very least drastically reduce our meat consumption.. lets face it .

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  eyeslice

  Rice production and composting both create methane too, as does hydroelectric power production.

  What is interesting with this though is that modern 'bio-digestors' can be configured to create natural gas that can be out straight into the gas supply. It is a bit trickier to do that with cows and sheep!

  But I do agree that over-population is a huge issue.
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  Would you become a Veggie to save the planet

  by eyeslice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  quite a debate has been going on in the media this week regarding carbon emissions and it has been suggested that we should either become vegetarians or at the very least drastically reduce our meat consumption.. lets face it .

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  eyeslice

  assumptions .... cessation of animal food consumption would "save the planet."

  I totally agree - the situation is far more complex than that. But with an ever growing world population and ever increasing carbon emmissions, we probably shouldn't be sitting back and doing nothing. Hence, I title the topic as a question not an instruction.
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  Would you become a Veggie to save the planet

  by eyeslice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  quite a debate has been going on in the media this week regarding carbon emissions and it has been suggested that we should either become vegetarians or at the very least drastically reduce our meat consumption.. lets face it .

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  Meat is Murder

  It is said that a pig has the IQ equivalent to a 3 year old human child. As Cameron Diaz said, "that's like eating my niece".
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  Would you become a Veggie to save the planet

  by eyeslice in

  1. watchtower
  2. beliefs

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  quite a debate has been going on in the media this week regarding carbon emissions and it has been suggested that we should either become vegetarians or at the very least drastically reduce our meat consumption.. lets face it .

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  eyeslice

  Quite a debate has been going on in the media this week regarding carbon emissions and it has been suggested that we should either become vegetarians or at the very least drastically reduce our meat consumption.

  Let’s face it

  1. Meat production produces far more carbon than obtaining the same amount of protein from plants.
  2. Meat production uses far more water.
  3. Animals such as cows and sheep produce large amounts of methane (in the case of cows not from their backsides as you might expect but from rumination), which is an even more dangerous greenhouse gas than CO2.
  4. Factory farming produces huge amount of faecal pollutants that find their way into our water supplies, water table, etc.
  5. Production of meat on the scale we consume it today is unbelievably cruel to the animals involved.(don't believe me check it out for yourself).
  6. Eating meat is not good for your health. Yes, I know people will argue we are carnivores but the truth is at best our ancestors were more like carrion animals, perhaps finding the odd animal killed by something else. There is no way that our early ancestors hunted down and killed mammoths as depicted in popular illustrations, they would have been far too big. Even as late as the 16th Century, North American Indians weren’t that good at hunting buffalo.

  So would you become veggie to save the planet?
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  What do we know about the True Faith Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by eyeslice in

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  2. friends

  sorry if this has been posted before but what do we know about the true faith jehovah's witnesses?

  are they only in romania?

  how do their numbers compare to actual jws?.

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  eyeslice

  due to persecution in Romania, lost all contact with the WTBTS some time in the late 50's or early 60's. They just re-studied the literature they had on hand, over and over and over again.

  I remember when I was in 'experiences' of isolated groups who just studied the Bible and then later found that their beliefs totally tallied with the JWs.

  Strange isn't it that this group did much the same thing and found it was the JWs who had drifted away.
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  What do we know about the True Faith Jehovah's Witnesses?

  by eyeslice in

  1. jw
  2. friends

  sorry if this has been posted before but what do we know about the true faith jehovah's witnesses?

  are they only in romania?

  how do their numbers compare to actual jws?.

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  oh ok did that then turn into the watchtower?

  I think we are going off topic here. The history of the JWs is well documented on this site. What I am not sure about is this break away group.
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  Who remembers the Circuit Orchestra's? How good was yours?

  by eyeslice in

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  2. friends

  in the days before 'simplification', the days of 3 day circuit assemblies (fri evening plus sat & sun), when we used have catering departments that cooked and served up hot meals, we also used to have circuit orchestras.. i must say ours was pretty poor though, only matched by the lacklustre singing.. eyeslice.

  (bee in his bonnet since mrs eyeslice went to singing practice at local kh on sunday evening).

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  eyeslice

  I'd love to hear a rendition of "We're Jehovah's Witnesses" on the kazoo.

  How about 'Lazarus Lay Sleeping' - that would be a hoot.