Comments Katarina has made

  • Meat Eater and Environmentalist?

    I'm a vegetarian except for occasional fish; however, much depends on what you eat.  If you eat beef from over-grazing and polluting lot-fed big herds, I'd say you aren't much of an environmentalist, whereas, if you eat elk or deer, you are probably helping to save some ecosystems.

    If you eat the average US chicken rather than free-ranging humanely grown chickens, I'd say you aren't much of an environmentalist. It's a matter of scale, and what pollution and damage the industry causes.

    If you eat hogs, for crying out loud, be sure they aren't factory hogs, whose industry is a horrible polluter. (Besides pigs are intelligent animals on a par with dogs and cats.)

    "If a woman is socialized to believe in her own oppression, that would not meet the condition of freedom." Ayaan Hershi Ali

    On Animal-rights group makes the stupid claim that enviros must be vegetarians posted 2 years, 2 months ago 208 Responses

  • Meat Eater and Environmentalist?

    I'm a vegetarian except for occasional fish; however, much depends on what you eat.  If you eat beef from over-grazing and polluting lot-fed big herds, I'd say you aren't much of an environmentalist, whereas, if you eat elk or deer, you are probably helping to save some ecosystems.

    If you eat the average US chicken rather than free-ranging humanely grown chickens, I'd say you aren't much of an environmentalist. It's a matter of scale, and what pollution and damage the industry causes.

    If you eat hogs, for crying out loud, be sure they aren't factory hogs, whose industry is a horrible polluter. (Besides pigs are intelligent animals on a par with dogs and cats.)

    If you don't see any other movie this year, at least see An Inconvenient Truth.

    On Animal-rights group makes the stupid claim that enviros must be vegetarians posted 2 years, 2 months ago 208 Responses

  • Climate Change and the other environmental issues

    "...pollution, biodiversity loss, waste, resource use, and habitat protection used to be the focus for enviros, but they're less visible of late. Some argue that these challenges can all be addressed under the umbrella of climate change, as it's a huge topic that touches just about everything else."

    Commenting on the above, I think most of us understand we are in a web where, indeed, everything is connected. However, connecting climate change to over-population (both crucial environmental issues) probably doesn't begin to get us moving on funds for internal and international health and family planning funding. Connecting mountain top removal for coal to global climate change may not get us to write Congress to stop that practice.

    In spite of that, I believe everyone working on environmental issues should be aware of the whole picture, even while focusing on his/her own particular cause.

    Global climate change has gotten the attention of the country and the world as no other environmental issue has.  I doubt the insurance companies have been so aware in their entire history! So, let's continue on all fronts and keep the dots connected.On My My, Is It 2007 Already? posted 2 years, 3 months ago 2 Responses