San Francisco, a city long known for its fruits and nuts, has declared every Monday as Vegetarian Day.
PublicCEO.com has the meat of the story:
A resolution was passed in San Francisco declaring every Monday as “Vegetarian Day” to urge restaurants, grocery stores, and schools to offer plant based options for residents.
The 2009 report from World Bank environmental advisers, Goodland and Anhang, called “Livestock and Climate Change,” reveals that farmed animals and their byproducts are responsible for at least 32.6 billion tons of carbon dioxide per year, or 51 percent of annual worldwide greenhouse gas emissions.
Goodland and Anhang stated that replacing animal products with soy-based and other alternatives would be the best strategy for reversing climate change.
We checked with StraightDope.com, an authority that seemed appropriate in a story about San Francisco. It said, “The problem is the body’s inability to fully digest the complex carbohydrates so abundant in the vegetarian diet and the consequent excessive production of gases such as hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and methane.”
In other words, eat like a cow, fart like a cow.
Therefore, San Francisco’s theory that it can reduce greenhouse gasses by putting humans on a vegetarian diet to reduce the number of cows in the world is self-defeating. They’ll merely replace farting cows with farting humans.
And in the future, San Francisco’s politicians will be full of hot air and its citizens will be full of gas.
Source: PublicCEO.com, StraightDope.com
