Go(re) Vegan?

While pop-culture interest in "Global Warming" has skyrocketed in the months following Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth. Everyone is talking about in some way or another, whether to "debunk" the science (we're betting these people also spend a good deal of time "debunking" evolution) or preaching "go green" by doing things like.... drive a Prius.

Gore & space cadet Richard Branson have both ponied up $25m to the "first person to develop a technology that will efficiently remove carbon from the atmosphere". (I sent them a couple douglas fir saplings, but I am still waiting for my check). Which alludes to perhaps the biggest inconvient truth of the whole Global Warming crisis : we already know how to drastically reduce greenhouse gasses : GO VEGAN.

"Researchers at the University of Chicago have determined that switching to a vegan diet is more effective in countering global warming than switching from a standard American car to a Toyota Prius."

To highlite the issue, PETA has demanded that the LIVE EARTH concert for Global Warming eliminate meat from the menu. They say, and I agree, that a concert for the environment selling meat is hypocritical. (Not to mention all the cars that will be driving to the event, etc. etc.)

In the words of Yvonne Taylor, "There's no such thing as a meat eating environmentalist."

The original article is here:
Wembley Urged To Take Meat Off Live Earth Menu

Floods are judgment on society, say bishops

Just in time for the release of Evan Almighty, amateur climatologist Graham Dow, who also moonlights as "Bishop" of the Catholic Church of England announces "Pro-gay laws were to blame for the floods," and "This is a strong and definite judgment because the world has been arrogant in going its own way. We are reaping the consequences of our moral degradation, as well as the environmental damage that we have caused."

Taking a page from Cortez, the Bishop is trying to co-opt natural phenomenon to sway the behavior of the people.

To be sure not to deviat from the blatant hypocryse of christian mythology in general, he continues "In the Bible, institutional power is referred to as 'the beast', which sets itself up to control people and their morals. Our government has been playing the role of God in saying that people are free to act as they want..."

Somehow the "institutional power" of the Church avoids being labeled as "the beast" when it attempts to control the people and their morals.

For you anorexics who may have lost your toothbrush this morning:
Floods are judgment on society, say bishops