#1 2009-10-22 08:25:05
The eco-pawprint of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser driven 10,000 kilometres a year, researchers have found.
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#2 2009-10-22 13:18:35
Hamsters have a footprint of 0.014ha – keeping two of them is equivalent to owning a plasma TV.
Bullshit. I crunched the numbers. They’re cheating. The authors are architects and booksellers.
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#3 2009-10-22 14:06:28
Personally, I would rather keep the dog and save the world like this instead.
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#4 2009-10-22 14:17:50
In a study published in New Scientist, they calculated a medium dog eats 164 kilograms of meat and 95kg of cereals every year.
They obviously buy much higher quality dog food than I buy. Purina is about 85% vegetable and the remainder is usually a waste product of human meat consumption like ground up bones and fat from deflensing the skins during leather production, plus chicken skin and bones. If it doesn't go into dog food, it would probably go into an incinerator or landfill.
But that's still no reason not to eat your pets. I personally like chickens and goats, but a well muscled dog wouldn't be bad.
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#5 2009-10-22 15:50:03
We all know dogs are not the problem, untermenschen are. The Latin American Catholics, Muslims, Hindus and Africans are popping out ridiculous numbers of sprogs who are turning the earth into an unlivable toilet.
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#6 2009-10-22 16:00:26
GooberMcNutly wrote:
But that's still no reason not to eat your pets. I personally like chickens and goats, but a well muscled dog wouldn't be bad.
Carnivores as a rule just aren't as tasty as herbivores; besides you want your dog young, before he reaches full growth.
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#7 2009-10-22 16:04:19
Emmeran wrote:
GooberMcNutly wrote:
But that's still no reason not to eat your pets. I personally like chickens and goats, but a well muscled dog wouldn't be bad.
Carnivores as a rule just aren't as tasty as herbivores; besides you want your dog young, before he reaches full growth.
I remind you that the humble pig is an omnivore, and is incredibly delicious. Feed a dog up on slops on a dog farm and I bet you'd get a damned fine meat out of 'em.
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#8 2009-10-23 07:34:44
Plus, dog food is about 90% corn, rice and other grains.
And the best pigs are fed on nuts, acorns specifically. I doubt that pigs in commercial feed are fed any animal products except for possibly clean rendered fat for bulking up, but it's still cheaper to feed them vegetable oils.
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