Veg Out!
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Keeping on Linda's memory!
Longtime vegetarian and veg advocate Paul McCartney, wants you to go vegetarian to help fight global warming. Really!
"I would urge everyone to think about taking this simple step to help our precious environment and save it for the children of the future," says the legendary Beatle.
According to a 2006 United Nations report, cattle-rearing generated more greenhouse gases than transportation.
Who knew?!
Macca's surprised that a call for vegetarianism hasn't been actively promoted by friends of the earth. "It's very surprising that most major environmental organizations are leaving the option of going vegetarian off their lists of top ways to curtail global warming," he says.
That's one option. Another is to raise cattle in a more eco-friendly way.
Let's work on that!
[Image via Mavrix Online.]
Perez - what do you mean, "Who knew?!"
Everyone knows!!!
Burping, farting cows release more carbon into the atmosphere (as methane) than transportation fumes worldwide because that's just how cows digest grass. There isn't really a more environmentally friendly way to raise cattle to stop this - they just fart and burp like that cuz that's what they eat and how it gets digested!
I thought there was a big furore about this last year when a load of people hassled Al Gore about not giving up meat…?
Hey - maybe you could set an example for us all and turn vegetarian? It'd help towards your summer health goals too…??
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OMG. HE'S WEARING A VON DUTCH TSHIRT? how over is that???
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I'm an animal lover and a vegetarian!! GO VEG! It's the ethical choice that is better for your health and the environment!
Re: LR – No, we don't have to get rid of all cows to solve the problem, we just have to stop breeding millions and millions of cows to be killed and eaten. If the only cows on the planet were the ones born naturally (ie: not created in factory farms) the methane they created would not be a significant problem.
Take a minute to reason out (or, gasp, research) your thought before posting, genius.
Re: meme – "If god didn't want us to eat meat he wouldn't have made it so tasty" yeah, and since he made sex feel so good, we should all be pedophiles, adulterers, and rapists. The question is not about whether we SHOULD eat meat or not, its that IT HURTS THE EARTH!!!!
Re: Betty – Um, God made you out of meet too, Betty. Does he want us to eat humans too? Should we eat all these extra babies you talk about?Re: Betty –
As Lizzy #7 said, it is NOT POSSIBLE to raise cattle in an eco-friendly way. Too many cows=too much methane being emitted into our atmosphere and too much fecal matter leaked into our water supply. How do you raise cattle in an eco-friendly manner???? You don't. The only way around it is to not consume cattle, or at the very least reduce the amount of meat/dairy you consume. It's not that hard people.
The main problem with green house gas emissions from cows is their farting. I'd love to see how you suggest we make greener cows to fix that.
Re: Slut Muffin – Actually, India has the highest concentration of vegetarians in the world, because of religious dietary restrictions. Just something to keep in mind.
Also, it absolutely would make a difference if only the US went vegetarian - we are a huge and highly populous nation with a lot of sway on the world scene. A defeatist attitude help no one.
Let's not. Go veg!
No matter how eco-friendly you raise cattle, the fact is that it will *always* take far more grain, water and energy to create a pound of beef than it does to produce ten pounds of grain. The way to end world hunger is to end the production and eating of meat. If the planet went vegetarian, there would be a surplus of food, even with the diversion of corn and other products to biofuel, global warming could be circumvented, and there would be far less pollution of water and air. Save the planet, go veg!
Re: loco – Yes, loco, animals exist for a reason. Too bad you don't.
How is being a vegetarian can save global warming? It's so stupid.
We don't even have enough food on the planet. Vegetables and rice are getting expensive in some Asian countries because there's not enough for everybody. If we all boycott meat, we are going to a lot of money for some lousy vegetables. Vegetables just don't keep you full and satisfied, they don't give you enough energy, you will have to eat a lot of them to get full.
Perez, the entire meat industry (including dairy, eggs and seafood) is raping the earth and exploiting labor, especially immigrant and poor labor. Human Rights Watch wrote a report on abuses in the US meat industry! It truly is evil.
Meat is a giant scam - it creates all that evil AND it's bad for your health. If you're not buying organic, you're eating all these pesticides, hormones and other chemicals. Even if you are buying organic, there's the fat, cholesterol, etc.
You are great on being anti-fur; take the next step, man! Go veg!
Re: PETA my ass – If we all boycott meat then those starving people will be able to eat the grains we feed to the animals instead. Plus we can used the land for grains and veggies, which would make it cheaper because there would be an abundance for everyone.
dont forget the farts all those cows and pigs produce…. seriously….the meat industry is horrible, they have no respect for the animals and they are kept in dirty, small, dark cages. fur is also horrible! animals dont deserve to be tortured!
This is one of the reasons grain prices are so high; more people are eating beef and pork, especially in Asia, where the economy is so good (the cattle and pigs eat HUGE amounts of grain). If everybody in the first world cut their meat consumption by half, we could easily feed the world on the grain that wasn't eaten by cattle. We could also use the airable land to grow other vegetables instead. People's health would also be better. Also, we would reduce chances of a bird flu, and animals that were used for food would lead much more comfortable lives.
I gave up beef, pork, lamb, chicken, turkey… all meat, back in Feb. '08 and it's been fine for me and I'm happy knowing that I'm not supporting this disgusting industry. Sure there is a small craving, especially for chicken or turkey but I can live without it.
each head of cattle produces massive amounts of methane gas during their lifetime which results in global warming. less cattle= less methane,=less global warming
I am so sick of Vegans trying to shove vegetarianism down people's throats!! Maybe if you didn't talk so much and didn't commit CRIMES (like breaking into farms and freeing animals) the rest of us might actually listen to what you have to say instead of just saying shut up!
raise cattle in a more eco friendly way?
How exactly do you think we can accomplish this?
God forbid you have to sacrifice cow flesh for a healthier alternative anyways.
LOL @ YOU: "Another is to raise cattle in a more eco-friendly way."
Newsflash: Impossible!
Re: s – Actually alot of those grains are going towards ethanol to power SUVs. And no, we shouldn't eat humans and extra babies, but we are at the top of the food chain. Humans HAVE big brains because we ate meat as we evolved. All that protein made us the intelligent beings that we are. So please stop forcing your vegan ideas down my throat!!!!!
well that explains his poor judgment when he married heather mills - the dude has malnourished brain! go eat some steak so you don't end up getting hitched by another gold digger again.
Re: meme – idiot!! Vegan's farts aren't as pollution as cows because there is no methane in it!
Beside, I've been vegetarian for 5 years, just turn vegan and I never felt better!!
As for the Jesus freak : read the fuckin Bible. God told us to be vegan!! For true!
I don't like to eat suffrances
GO VEGAN!!!
HELP OUR PLANET!!!!
oh boy - an other sign of malnourished vegetarian brain is that fkn von dutch t-shirt. do people still wear that…srsly - eat some steak
There is no "eco-friendly way" of raising cattle. Cows poop and their poop contains methane, a greenhouse gas that holds more heat than carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. The only solution would be to raise a hell of a lot fewer cattle, but that means meat-eaters eating less meat.
Everyone should at the very least eat less meat - it's better for your health.
"Another is to raise cattle in a more eco-friendly way"
How exactly?? Meat production has the single greatest impact on the enviroment, out of any other industry and is completely inefficient!
- A given quantity of grain eaten directly will feed 5 times as many people as it will if it is first fed to livestock and then is eaten indirectly by humans in the form of livestock products
- 1 kilo of feedlot beef takes about 50 times the water to produce as a kilo of soya beans or rice.
- The average meat eater is responsible for 1.5 more tons of global warming gases per year than a vegetarian.
- Animal farming generates more greenhouse gas than transport.
- Changing your diet will make more difference than changing from a standard sedan to a hybrid car.
- Animal farming is responsible for 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions
- Methane cycles out of the air in just eight years, so that lower methane emissions quickly translate to cooling of the earth.
- 70% of rainforests in the Amazon have been cleared for grazing.
- Meat and dairy production uses huge amounts of water, causes air and water pollution, uses fuel, causes soil erosion.
- Livestock use 30% of the earth's entire land surface.
- 33% of the global arable land is used to produce feed for livestock.
Sources: Report by United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO);
Noam Mohr, report for EarthSave International.
Agreed Lizzy. There really is no way to raise cattle in an eco-friendly way. Cattle need lots of water, produce a lot of shit and need to eat!! They are major energy guzzlers. Most other farmed animals use substantial amounts of energy too but cattle are by FAR the worst. Plus, red meat is bad for you. So why eat it?
i love paul, im veggie - going on 4 years
you can raise cattle in a more a eco-friendly way. And farmers are starting to experiment with digesters which take the manure and ride it of it the methane which can then be converted to an energy source for the farms. In this manner a farm can actually be off the grid, using its own waste for power.
VEGETARIANS ARE STUPID
FUCK YOU
as a vegetarian myself…this is a lost cause…too many fat ass people in this country who loooove their mcdonalds everyday
Even the most eco-friendly way of raising cattle doesn't compare with how little it takes to grow crops.
Re: diehipsterfucks – Not to mention the gallons of water needed to keep cows alive.
just for the record - the methane cows produce comes out their mouths. 4 stomachs, regurgitate, swallow it again, bacteria in their stomachs breaking it down and methane comes out their mouths.
perez - you are a moron
you cant raise cattle in a more "eco friendly way" - cows produce methane gas through their shit ect… another gas (as opposed to carbon) which contributes to increased pressure in our atmosphere which leads to global warming… physics 101
"I love the earth but I'm not giving up my steak." When I see this and similar comments posted I want to puke my vegetarian, bean and soy eating guts all over you. Stop thinking of meat eating as a necessity. Animals weren't put on this earth for you to eat. We're all put on the earth to co-habitat, and all humans are trying to do is dominate. I thought cooperation and sharing are something we're all taught in kindergarten but I guess I'm mistaken.
yeah stopping eating all cattle would only kill what, a billion people from starvation?
OR you can buy locally reared free range produce that hasn't been transported.
Don't dictate to us Macca. It's all about finding balance. Not extremes.
If you eat meat and claim to care for the environment you are a hypocrite - period. No amount of recycling or Prius-driving will absolve you of this. The reason all you overweight men have man boobs or 'moobs' is because of all the oestrogen and female hormones they pump into cattle to fatten them up quicker. These same hormones have been proven to promote male infertility. Think BSE and foot and mouth disease - someone is telling you something, and that something is to start questioning what you put in your mouth, now!
Um, there is no "other way," cows make farts full of methane, in addition to massive amounts of poop, which ruins watersays and turns to GHG. Reduce your meat/dairy intake, its the best thing you can do for the environment!
I'm not usually like this but this has to be said because perez's comments are so wrong. there is NO WAY to raise cattle economically, the green house gases come from their farts, which they have to do, its a fact of life. Chicken, fish, and other animals are fine, but jesus americans and canadians, PUT DOWN THE BURGER AND EAT A CARROT. your colons are being filled with left over shit that can attribute to early death. going vegetarian or vegan will help the world in so many ways, and really if cannibalism is so wrong why are we killing living, breathing things to eat them when there are so many alternatives to meat products.
Just my opinion i need to say.
To make the cow-industry eco-friendly you would have to prevent them from crapping and farting. Not an easy thing to do. I stopped eating meat about ten years ago and it is the easiest decision I have ever made. Milk and eggs are harder, I have always fallen back to them (but I choose the free-range and ecoligical stuff and I drink soymilk at home). You can do it to Perez, come on amigo!!
Hey Paul, couldn't give a crap about you wanting peeps to become vegetarians but wearing crap Von Dutch gear is sooooooo lame !!!!!
After I went veggie, I feel more healthy both physically and mentally, than when I ate meat. And I help fighting global warming, and I save many poor animals from a horrible death each year!
So face it!!! Go veg is the best way to stop global warming among with other things that makes the world a much worse place to live.
To everyone who loves this earth: Go vegetarian! And even better: Go vegan!
THERE IS NO ECO FRIENDLY WAY TO RAISE CATTLE-THEY FART AND SHIT, END OF STORY. GOD FORBID YOU FAT AMERICAN BASTARDS SHOULD HAVE A MEAL THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE HALF A SLAUGHTERED ANIMAL AT LEAST. LAND OF THE 14oz STEAKS ETC. YOU PEOPLE ARE GARGANTUAN, VILE, GREEDY, OBESE, UGLY MORONS. I HOPE YOU DO POLLUTE YOURSELVES OUT OF EXISTANCE. UNFORTUNATELY YOU'LL BE TAKING THE REST OF US WITH YOU.
THERE IS NO ECO FRIENDLY WAY TO RAISE CATTLE-THEY FART AND SHIT, END OF STORY. GOD FORBID YOU FAT AMERICAN BASTARDS SHOULD HAVE A MEAL THAT DOESN'T INVOLVE HALF A SLAUGHTERED ANIMAL AT LEAST. LAND OF THE 14oz STEAKS ETC. YOU PEOPLE ARE GARGANTUAN, VILE, GREEDY, OBESE, UGLY MORONS. I HOPE YOU DO POLLUTE YOURSELVES OUT OF EXISTANCE. UNFORTUNATELY YOU'LL BE TAKING THE REST OF US WITH YOU.
Re: Lizzy –
While it sounds terrible, if everyone in the world was healthy and well fed hardly anyone would die and sad to say it people need to die…It sounds horrible but it's the truth if world hunger stopped then population would boom then we'd all be fudged.
I know this will sound like some right wing crap speech, but truly there is no such thing as global warming in the sence of what Al Gore spoke about.
The world is still officialy classed as in an ice age so it has to warm up, I'm not saying humans aren't helping smash up the planet because we are but the main big problems for 'global warming' is just the Earth naturally warming up.
The Earth is also not dying, we are….The Earth won't die until the sun expands.
Perez, mayB U should read more? like, more REAL new/information/knowledge!
PPL: EATIN LESS MEAT IS A BIG! STEP TOO! dont have 2 become hardcore eco 2 make a difference…a human being doesnt NEED 2 eat animal proteins 3times a day, 7days a week!!!
Once-2x a week is more than enough…
Shut up ta freakin' hippy and just stick to making music and money.
Eh… WHO didn't know that?
The greenhouse gases are generated in the cattle's stomachs. They either fart or burb them out. There is no way to do this in a more eco-friendly way.
global warming is a myth. eat meat, eat meat eat meat eat meat
Re: perez –
I agree.
Im a vegetarian and its the best thing I ever did, go veggie everyone!
This thing about cows methane aswel, if we didnt raise so many to kill and eat there wouldnt be as much methane produced
And an eco-friendly way of raising cattle? Dont be so ridiculous
People fail to realize that we don't need or have to eat meat. It's a very bad habit. 1 acres of land can feed 1 vegetarian for a year. It takes 22 acres to feed a meat-eater for a year. Our world population is exploding. Einstein was a vegetarian. Meat-eating can cause health problems plus there is the risk of e-coli, ingesting steroids, hormones, & antibiotics. Vegetarians live about 7 years longer.
After 1 year of NOT eating meat; you are repelled by the awful smell of meat. It really smells bad.
Re: susan –
What happens if people like eating meat?
It was real nice the way he honored her memory by marrying that whore.
Good for Sir Paul.
He's a dick, but he's right on here.
Global warming is a lie. All the facts support the earth is getting colder. Also when an ice age ends the earth usually warms up a bit. So go enjoy the sun while you can people. Who knows when the next ice age will begin.
How about never appearing in concert again? That will save electricity and transport costs.
anyone tries to take my meat away they can just go fuck themselves!
It's not about the actual rearing of the cattle. It's all the methane gas (farts) that they produce that eat away at the ozone layer. So the only way to cut down on that is for people to cut down on beef so we don't have to raise a million cattle to feed them!
go veg…you poop much easier
Wow, you ARE an ignoramus!!! "Who knew"??? Oh, lots of people knew -people who genuinely care about the world they live in and who don't need celebrities to tell them it's trendy to be "green". If you weren't so busy painting cum and hearts all over John Mayer's picture, you would have already known about this.
Raise cows in an eco-friendly way? You are a retard Perez…there is no such thing!!!…sometimes I am happy you shed light on important issues, but this time, know your shit before flapping your fatty lips! You NEED to learn more about the environment and our future, it is your major gap in knowledge…do it for Earth day Perez!! (and where is our happy earth day sign?? You are pissing me off today dude!!!!!)
Re: Misty – Awesome comment…
Re: Lynne – Ignorant and intellectually-challenged people like you are the problem. This has NOTHING to do with "changing the weather". We are guests on this planet and we have been disrespecting our hostess for far too long. Would you visit a friend's home and eat everything in the kitchen, trample mud all over their floors, run their taps dry and kill their pets and plants? Well, maybe YOU would but most reasonable people would not act with such carelessness. This is about curtailing our out-of-control consumption and limiting the damage we do with our thoughtlessness. And even if the earth will shake us off like the parasites we've become, why hasten that process?
there is no way to raise cattle in a more eco-friendly way!
instead of using massive amounts of grain for farm animals. people can eat it just think by saving the earth, you would also be helping to feed poverty-stricken countries!
_Proud Vegan
Re: Stephanie – Go straight to hell, Steph. Do not pass Go. Do not collect 200.00. The crimes we commit against animals with our barbaric treatment and cruelty is far more serious than the crimes some activists commit to free them. If your child or best friend was about to die a horrible death or was being used to test battery acid on flesh, wouldn't you feel justified in freeing them? But you sound like one of those hopelessly foolish morons who thinks humans are better than animals and that we should be free to maim and torture them as we see fit. You probably don't have enough depth in your soul to comprehend this concept.
That dirty son-of-a-bitch and his hypocritical animal rights scam doesn't fool me, he loves the elephants and polar bears so goddamn much but he's willing to let his little daughter go to bed hungry every night so he can fly first class around the world with his new girlfriend (who I hear is a pole dancer from Enid Oklahoma but God help her anyways) acting like Mr Big Shit, but lemme tell you he can't get away with that shit ’cause as soon as my attorneys get his ass in court he'll have to pay the fuckin' piper and I'll never get over the terrible way he treated me but that don't matter, it's what he's doin' to poor Beatrice that tears me up inside and we'll just see what the judge has to say!
Why is it that vegans all look like something that was pulled out of a lime pit by a wire around the ankle at Auschwitz?
I'll take vegetarian dinners any time, just as long as they serve it with some meat.
Vegetarians Rule!!!
As long as the cows are vegetarian, then I'm ok with eating tasty meat.
Like are you kidding? Raise cows in a more eco-friendly way?Cruelty and Friendly do not belong the the same sentence. No. Raising animals so you can eat them is cruel no matter how it's done; and it hurts the environment no matter how it's done.
What's a more eco friendly way for raising cattle? stick a bag on their ass for their farts? Keep them in a warehouse where their farts can be captured and used as green fuel after deactivating the methane gas?
No way to stop millions of cows from shitting and releasing all that methane gas. Not necessary to mass produce animals for our over populated earth. Let's go back old school, only eat what you can hunt yourself!
I have a hard time with the "pick-and-choose" way Paul McCartney decides to educate the public about environmental and animal causes. He and his ex came to Canada and BASHED all East coast families that make their living, like the generations before them, from sealing. A part of Canada's fishery industry. Apart from the highly publicized pictures of a snowy white baby seal (ploy) being hit over the head…more seals are dying from Environmental causes than the seal hunt will ever. I wish he would just be more clear in his attempts to educate. In this case he has only perpetuated propaganda on Larry King when at the end of the day he didnt know that P.E.I and Newfoundland are two different places. It's very difficult to tell a group of people that what is good and right for me is good and right for you - Just a reminder there is always another side to every story.
Raise cattle in a more eco-friendly way? It's literally their shit that is causing the greenhouse gases. So as long as you flesh eating monsters keep consuming animals you're going to continue to contribute to global warming. I'm sure once we're all flooded or homeless because of hurricanes you might then rethink your selfish meat eating ways. And for the stupid comment about God making animals so tasty, doesn't it say in the Bible that we are supposed to protect animals? Do you really base your beliefs and opinions off of some book written by fanatics thousands of years ago (the Bible) anyhow? That's just too funny, and a little bit scary actually.
I hear what you're saying Macca, but I would have a hard time giving up my occasional burger!
Cattle farming produces so many greenhouse gasses because of the methane that the shit emits.
Okay Okay people. It is true (most people who care enough to find out ) know that the extreme amounts of meat being produced is affecting our earth in some very bad ways. We've thrown nature all out of whack with our mass production of.. just about any and everything. How about this as a comprimise.. think about how much meat you throw out .. daily weekly monthly and cut down by twice that much. you'll be saving animals, the earth and you will probably lose a few pounds when you cut down on fatty meat!
I love the taste of meat, and dislike the taste of many vegtables, so I'm not changeing.
This is stupid. Vegetarians are nothing but self rightous hippies thinking that they are saving the animals and the world through not eating meat. However the only thing that will stop green house gases from coming out of cows asses is to exterminate all of them. What do you think those hippie PETA bitches would say about that?
okay who. since that's SOOOOOOOO logical. vegans aren't talking about killing the cows to stop the methan emissions; we're talking about stopping BREEDING THEM FOR SLAUGHTER. the cow population is so large becasue they're bred to die. it was NOT always that way. get a clue. or use google. and most vegans/vegetarians do NOT support PETA. Peta has people who wear fur (like Dita VonTeese) as spokespeople. that's hypocrisy at it's finest. read The China Diet then attempt an informed discussion.
Um, there's no way to raise cattle in an eco-friendly way, sorry to say.
I used to be a MAJOR MEAT EATER — like twice a day — and decided to quit for environmental reasons. It was MUCH EASIER than I anticipated, and my body feels A MILLION TIMES BETTER. Seriously. I used to love meat and not understand why anyone would want to give it up, but now that I've been veggie for 4 1/2 months now, I can't imagine living any other way. Now meat seems inhumane and barbaric, WHICH IT IS. Everyone should at least give vegetarianism a try!
Re: PETA my ass –
You're really unintelligent. The UN put out a report that this is scientific fact.
Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet. ~Albert Einstein
Animals are not on this planet for our consumption any longer. They are here to live out their existence as we are, in natural harmony - not the monstrous way we have exploited them and created unnatural harmony upon this earth.
There are A LOT of things you don´t have the slightest clue about, Perez!!!!!!!!
Re: Seamus –
You are so right!
I am really glad about the reasonable amount of intelligent reactions here.
"As long as there are slaughterhouses, there will be battlefields."
Leo Tolstoy author
"Non-violence leads to the highest ethics, which is the goal of all evolution. Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages."
Thomas Edison, inventor
"For as long as men massacre animals, they will kill each other. Indeed, he who sows the seed of murder and pain cannot reap joy and love."
Pythagoras, mathematician
"To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For with the latter it is at least admitted that suffering is evil and that the man who causes it is a criminal. But thousands of animals are uselessly butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. If any man were to refer to it, he would be thought ridiculous. And that is the unpardonable crime."
Romain Rolland, author, Nobel Prize 1915
"If a group of beings from another planet were to land on Earth — beings who considered themselves as superior to you as you feel yourself to be to other animals — would you concede them the rights over you that you assume over other animals?"
George Bernard Shaw, playwright, Nobel Prize 1925
"In their behavior toward creatures, all men are Nazis. Human beings see oppression vividly when they're the victims. Otherwise they victimize blindly and without a thought."
Isaac Bashevis Singer, author, Nobel Prize 1978
"Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty."
"Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances of survival for life on earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet."
Albert Einstein, physicist, Nobel Prize 1921
Re: lilly – BAD KARMA YOUR ASS!!!!!!! SHUT UP BITCH!!!!!!!!!
WHO DOESN'T FUCKING LOVE TO EAT MEAT???????????? MEAT HUUUUUUUUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM MEAT!!!!!!!!!!! I LOVE EATING MEAT!!!!!!!!!! MEAT HUUUUUUUUUUUUMMMM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GIVE ME MORE FUCKING MEAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
GO MIXED GRILL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MEAT EATERS RULES!!!!!!!!!!!!! WHO CARES ABOUT THE GLOBAL WARMING? FUCK PAUL!!!!!!!!!!
There is one way…possibly. And don't say these things can't be created, because they can. If you could capture the methane gas that cows produce and use it in a more environmentally friendly way. I know they are looking into capturing methane gas to develop fuels. It's not exactly 'eco-friendly,' as it obviously still will release emissions into the atmosphere, however, if these methane emissions could be used as fuels instead of fossil fuels, then it might reduce the overall effect on the earth. I don't think it's necessary to get rid of cows altogether either way. Cows are a product of nature too, there is a reason why they are hear. Probably reducing their numbers couldn't hurt though.
Oh, for goodness sakes. Global warming is a hoax and a fraud.
GO VEG! More important than global warming, everyone should go vegetarian because we are smart enough to know how to survive (and be healthy!) without killing innocent animals. If you don't want to listen to me, please search Google to see how animals are mistreated and slaughtered before you start defending your meat-eating lifestyles.