Pigou and the Anthropophagi
Why does the salmon here cost more than the chicken? There ought to be a tax on chicken.
Why?
On chicken and meat and eggs and dairy products.
Why?
Because farm animals are bad for the environment.
How?
They contribute to global warming.
How?
They produce methane, which gets in the atmosphere and adds to the greenhouse effect.
People produce methane, too, you know.
That's why I think there should be a tax on people also. Cannibals need more vegetables in their diet anyhow.
Why?
On chicken and meat and eggs and dairy products.
Why?
Because farm animals are bad for the environment.
How?
They contribute to global warming.
How?
They produce methane, which gets in the atmosphere and adds to the greenhouse effect.
People produce methane, too, you know.
That's why I think there should be a tax on people also. Cannibals need more vegetables in their diet anyhow.
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posted by knzn at 6/12/2008 07:26:00 PM
7 Comments:
Good point, knzn. I don't know about salmon vs chicken (don't salmon produce methane?), but I've been wondering whether the vegetarian diet is indeed superior to a meat-based diet (say 4 oz/meat per day) wrt emisssions because if you replace meat with beans (or various other vegetables) in the human diet, don't humans emit a lot more methane? So, aren't we simply replacing methane emitted by animals, which is counted, with methane emitted by humans, which is not counted. I wonder if anyone has done the math on this.
Are you a vegetarian knzn :)?
Mankiw is going to be pissed.
Well, I have to head out to the local farmers' market before all the arugula is gone.
Plants produce it also. It isn't called swamp gas for nothing.
If you have livestock, you still need plants to feed the livestock, so it's not an either/or. In any case, I don't think food crops produce much methane.
Why does the salmon here cost more than the chicken? There ought to be a tax on chicken.
Why?
On chicken and meat and eggs and dairy products.
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