Green New Deal

When you don't have a platform as a party, and some in your party win mid-terms after running on ridiculous ideas, I guess you just adopt those ideas as the platform. 

You couldn't make it up.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2019/02/06/trump-state-of-the-union-2019-reject-politics-of-revenge-sot-vpx.cnn

Just watch Pelosi in this clip......and let her deal with Ocrazio Chavez.  It takes a crazy person to deal with a nut job. LOL

We eat more meat than we ever have......but we also recycle now.  We also cut the plastic rings that cans sometimes come in.....so they don't get wrapped around a dolphin's nose, or something like that.  I know we save metric tons of bullchit from entering our home.

I've spent my life in the outdoors and I always do my part it leave it cleaner than I found it.....or at the very least, as clean.  Who deosn't want to enjoy and live in a clean place, free of litter and other pollution?  But it ends right there.  I am part of the largest and smartest species on the planet.....and I'll eat almost every other species in some form or another.....and I'll kill them to do it.  My species is also multiplying at a pace that the Earth cannot sustain....and when the tipping point comes, all of this talk will be just what it is.....a giant waste of time and energy.

Mankind is hard on the earth's environment......you won't even make a small dent in that fact in your lifetime, or your children's.

It's the Earth.....it doesn't care about you or your politics.  It takes care of itself.

Beef consumption ......"down 19% since 2005 for a reduction in 185 million metric tons in emissions (equivalent to 39 million cars/year)"

Source please? 

I'm not buying those numbers.

Ughhhh.....any of you folks ever been around a chicken operation?  Were those "emissions" added back in or are we just not as mad at chicklens as we are cows?

Still, I see that Pelosi applauds your efforts.

I'm going to tell you what it doesn't take......nearly 500,000 gallons of water. LMAOOOO

Originally posted by Left Brain We buy our beef straight ftom the farmer/rancher....I just want to see the breakdown of the supposed 360,000 gallons of water it takes to give us that 200 lbs. we buy at a time. .......he usually keeps about 300 head of cattle per year.....that 72,000,000 gallons per year is a lot of rain. LOL

actually LB, that isn't very much rain.  USDA recommends 1 acre of land per head of cattle, so lets say this guy has a 300 acre ranch.  The average age of slaughter for a cow is about 36 months.

72,000,000 gallons of water is 221 acre-feet, or 2652 acre-inches. Divide that by 300 acres, thats is 8.84 inches/cow.  Divide that by 3 years, and that is 2.94 inches of precipitation/year.

i had an intership at NRCS, about a decade ago, so a couple of those numbers might be off, but not by an order of magnitude.  Here in maryland we get an average of 30 inches of rain per year.  It is zero issue here.  Where it becomes an issue is places like California or other low-precipitation rangelands.  many ranchers also fatten cattle on feedlots and don't give them rangeland.

Let's say 20 inches of rain in a year on 100 acres.  That's estimated to be 54,000,000 gallons.  Let's use your 100 cattle on 100 acres....standard rule is 50 cow/calf pairs for every 2 acres. (of course that's considering good ground.....much land will support less, for sure)  Let's say 400 lbs. per head of cattle......you need 72,000,000 gallons.  We're 18,000,000 gallons short IF EVERY DROP WENT TO THE CATTLE for food and water.  And BTW - the avg. weight of a steer to slaughter is about 1100-1200 lbs....which yields about 500 lbs. of meat.

Uh, yeah......................No.  LOL

Statistics..........make 'em say whatever you want......just don't try to tell me it takes 720,000 gallons of water to raise 500 lbs of trimmed, boneless meat from a cow....that's complete and total bullchit....prolly made up by somebody who doesn't eat meat and saw a cow one time in a John Wayne movie while eating tofu popcorn, and believed by people who get their news from twitter.

The world is a better place when people just eat, and stop trying to figure out how their food is somehow bad for them and their environment.

That Party is done if this is their future.  LMAOOOOOO

divide by 3 lb, its total water, not water per year.

and go do some research i guess on how much water a cow consumes, and on how much water is needed to grow the food it consumes.