New Solution Proposed for Global Warming: Edible Pets

Your Pet is Not Amused

Just when you thought it (global warm­ing hys­te­ria and it’s response) couldn’t pos­si­bly get any more ridicu­lous, it gets more ridiculous:

The eco-pawprint of a pet dog is twice that of a 4.6-litre Land Cruiser dri­ven 10,000 kilo­me­tres a year, researchers have found.

Vic­to­ria Uni­ver­sity pro­fes­sors Brenda and Robert Vale, archi­tects who spe­cialise in sus­tain­able liv­ing, say pet own­ers should swap cats and dogs for crea­tures they can eat, such as chick­ens or rab­bits, in their provoca­tive new book Time to Eat the Dog: The real guide to sus­tain­able liv­ing (cur­rently avail­able only on Amazon.UK).

The cou­ple have assessed the car­bon emis­sions cre­ated by pop­u­lar pets, tak­ing into account the ingre­di­ents of pet food and the land needed to cre­ate them.

“A lot of peo­ple worry about hav­ing SUVs but they don’t worry about hav­ing Alsa­tians and what we are say­ing is, well, maybe you should be because the envi­ron­men­tal impact … is comparable.”

In a study pub­lished in New Sci­en­tist, they cal­cu­lated a medium dog eats 164 kilo­grams of meat and 95kg of cere­als every year. It takes 43.3 square metres of land to pro­duce 1kg of chicken a year. This means it takes 0.84 hectares to feed Fido. (Save the planet: eat your pet).

Hat Tip: WUWT.

P.S. AP Poll: 63 per­cent of dog own­ers and 53 per­cent of cat own­ers will­ing to go mouth-to-muzzle (CPR) on their pets.

I don’t know if this makes it more or less likely that pet own­ers will be will­ing to eat their pets to save the planet …

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