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  Yes, no mention of cycling as an option - or tips on how to advocate for better infrastructure to support alternate modes - is disappointing.On How to green your commute posted 1 year, 5 months ago 20 Responses

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  STOP EATING!!!

  You know, come to think of it -- even organic produce has an impact on the earth.  I don't think one can be considered an environmentalist unless they give up agriculturally produced foods altogether.

  Foraging is not an answer - thanks to overpopulation - that would be too destructive to demand of 'everyone.'  

  I think by logic the only way one could be a true environmentalist is to simply stop existing.

  I don't agree that "the whole point was to make us look at where our food comes from..." is a viable response to our rants in this thread.

  This is the chior, we know.  Right?On Driving Us to Vegetarianism posted 2 years, 2 months ago 14 Responses

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  It's hardly the same...

  There are ways to reduce the impact of 'meat'.  I'm not sure why I put that in quotations... Anyway, buy local, organic - heck visit the farm, go fishing and get to know your slab of meat then kill it and prep it yourself.  

  I don't want to get into the whole "Are Human's meant to eat meat?"  But I will say we must have incisors for a reason...

  ANYWAY - That's my food them folks is messing with.  Not my only food, but some of it and danged if I'm going to eat 5lbs of peanuts every day so I have enough stamina and protein to commute 16 miles on my bicycle.

  Preposterous, and I agree with the comments that statements like "You just cannot be a meat-eating environmentalist" are more harmful than not.

  That's it - If I can't have a fishing license and eat my own trout, have an omelette on Sunday, broil a chicken breast on Thursday nights and indulge in the occaisonal New York then I don't want to be an environmentalist.  Carry on without me.  However, I'm still going to recycle, compost, live car free, and let my pesticide/herbicide free yard 'die' in the summer.

  Take home message:  Don't mess with my food or I quit.  Tofu sucks.On Driving Us to Vegetarianism posted 2 years, 2 months ago 14 Responses