Earth Day is a week away, so brace yourself for cuddly, hug-the-planet blubbering from the presidential candidates. John McCain will tell you we must be the “caretakers of creation.” Hillary Clinton will talk of recycling and efficient light bulbs. Barack Obama will surely tell us we “cannot afford more of the same timid politics when the future of our planet is at stake.”

Ah, but what about hamburgers? When the candidates tell us to stay out of McDonald’s, then we will know their light bulbs are on. The end of timid politics is when they say that with the planet at stake, you must eat less steak.

With fatal food riots in poor nations, and with China rapidly approaching Western levels of consumption, we in these obese United States must redefine what constitutes, to borrow from McDonald’s, a “happy meal.” Scientists are concluding that along with more fuel-efficient cars and curbing industrial pollution, the simple act of eating less meat could help slow global warming.

Interesting, provocative – and doomed in the homeland of fast food.




  1. tallwookie says:

    I dont see what all the fuss is about

    Take biofuels for example – taking corn & making fuel out of it. this raises the price of corn, which causes starvation in mexicans. its a win-win situation.

    Fast food is another great example of this. Huge mega-corporations contract companies who supply them with basic essentials (like hamburger buns for example). The ingredients for those hamburger buns are primarily wheat and lots of preservatives. The wheat comes from huge mega-farms, primarily in 3rd world countries – where the populace starves because all the grain is exported to make hamburger buns. Yet another win-win situation.

    I find it extremely funny that the majority of the “save the planet” nutjobs are people who grew up in large cities & the only REAL forests that they’ve ever seen was on TV. They have no conception of what nature is or how it works, and so, they feel the need to burden the rest of us with their lack of knowledge.

    aka:
    Save the Trees, Logging is Evil
    or
    Animals have feelings

    Its a bunch of shit. Complete & utter shit. I grew up in a mountainous valley in the middle of pristine woodlands & I have seen the aftermath of clear-cut logging, massive forest fires that incinerate hundreds of thousands of acres, avalanches that destroy thousands of trees and ruin habitats for years….

    and you know what?

    NATURE FUCKING RECOVERS. AS IF IT HAD NEVER FUCKING HAPPENED.

    So you want to save the planet? have fun with that you retards, but the planet doesnt need you or anyone. Its not broken, it cant break.

  2. Jägermeister says:

    #29 – bobbo

    Thanks for the links. The video was very interesting. Pretty neat if your property has steep terrain.

  3. 888 says:

    that’s a one pretty bigmac on the picture… mmmmm…


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