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Climate Change Report Calls for Mandatory Meat Rationing

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The average person eats 21 meals a week. According to a new plan to combat climate change, 17 of those will be government-mandated as meat-free. Targets set by the plan would limit weekly consumption of beef would be limited to 1/4 pound. Chicken and ham would be similarly limited, with four modest servings of meat available throughout a week.

The report, sponsored by the University of Surrey, U.K., called for a return to old-fashioned cooking and shopping habits, such as walking to stores, buying only local produce, eating leftovers, and cooking in bulk, so that several meals can be prepared at once. More controversially, the report suggests people should "accept different notions of quality" in regards to food consumption, so that foods we now discard or use for animal feed can instead be directed to human consumption.

Drastic reductions in consumption of alcohol, dairy products, and sweets were also part of the plan.

The report's author, Tara Garnett, noted that voluntary campaigns were "doomed to fail" and strongly urged governments to mandate compliance through carbon trading and caps on greenhouse gas emissions. Ms. Garnett, who says "we cannot assume [the consumer] will necessarily make the right choice", advocates large-scale government intervention to ensure targets are met.

An investigation in the October edition of the Ecologist magazine advocated the developed world cut its meat consumption in half as a tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The head of the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Rajendra Pachauri, also recently suggested people go at least partially vegetarian.

The report found that a fifth of all emissions were the result of the food sector, a value larger than that from the combined transportation sector. The majority of those emissions were from meat production.

Ms. Garnett is a research fellow at the Center for Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey.

Eating the Cow is the Greatest Sin.

Submitted by K.J.SINGH on Fri, 10/03/2008 - 05:55.
Civilized Human Beings should Never Eat the Mother Cow. We need to tell the people the God’s honest Truth. The eating of cows meat means taking re-birth for every hair on the back of the cow….5000 Year old teachings from the Purana. Guru Nanak Dev Ji says in Sri Guru Grant Sahib Ji ..its all in the Puranas but the Pundits do not now. A Cow is like our mother, she supplies us an abundance of milk, our main source of protein, and sometimes when the mother of a new born dies, mother cow sustains the baby, Many preparations are made from her milk such as butter, and yogurt. There is no animal on planet earth to replace this most beautiful animal, according to Vedic scriptures such animals reside in the Spiritual world. This defenceless animal survives on grass given by God. Thankless human beings due to ignorance are the cruelest beast on the planet, having consumed her transformed blood in the form of milk, when she is no longer able to supply us; out of gratitude we cut her throat and eat her flesh just to satisfy the taste of our tongue. In western countries dogs and cats are considered pets, but in India cows are protected and are considered pets. India in spite of all of her economic financial and social problems is the most civilised nation on the planet, and western nations can be benefited from her teachings. Indians are the most intelligent people on the planet earth. Some Sikhs eat meat and often you hear some of them saying that’s its O.K. to eat meat and it does not matter if it’s BEEF. It is said that during war if there is nothing to eat it’s OK to consume Goat, but NEVER Beef, because of the Karmic reaction. (NOT A SINGLE GURU EVER CONSUMED FLESH) other wise they would have served it in the Gurudwara, as the worshippers of Goddess Kali who slaughter goats and offer the blood as a sacrifice to her. (There are 33 million demigods and at the lowest rung are Goddess Kali , they are on the level of scavengers. Take a look at what the teachings of the Ramkrishna Mission/ Vivekananda (the worshippers of Goddess Kali ) did to Calcutta. They encourage meat eating and animal sacrifice, as a result Punjabis being influenced by demigod worshipping along with some of their misguided Sikh friends eat meat and consume liquor. and we blame it all on our Muslim friends. But muslims and Christians have different karmas they do not believe in re-incarnation and Karma. Meat eating is very unhealthy and the western world is now begining to realise it. But its never to late.

One worries with the

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Submitted by manvir singh khalsa on Wed, 10/01/2008 - 17:41.
One worries with the pharmaceutical companies having such dictatorship through the world of medicine, whether influencing peoples rights to choose is endangered? People need to be informed about the best health options available, and one of these most importantly is that milk proteins are the most beneficial to health. "Be inspired, appreciate your life, and love others as you find divinity within them, Blessings."

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