a saltie is a great dish especially when cooked with spices. alligators are tougher meat.

but the healthiest meat of the lot is Kangaroos. very lean meat – hardly any fat.

Link to CO2 from transportation

Link to CH4 from animal husbandry

Since CH4 is 21 times more effective at trapping heat, the 2005 numbers adjusted for the same trapping capacity imply that cows beat cars in the US by about 25%. Get rid of the cow, keep the car, for now!

The link you want to read is the one Abhi quoted. Be advised that the agriculture vs transportation vs industry vs residential/commercial split can get a little fuzzy at the edges. For instance, should the environmental impact of fertilizer manufacture be counted in the agriculture sector or in the industry sector? How about transporting plants/animals/fungi and their derivatives – agriculture or transportation sector? And so on. In most cases, seemingly inconsistent results between different studies are usually caused by such differences in classification, but for any one classification, the year-to-year trends should be easily comparable.

On another note – i personally think fish harvesting is no more or less morally upright than beef farming. For every chilean bass you are enjoying today fer instance, there’s a couple of hundred kilos of lower-end aqualife that got obliterated. At least the cow lives and dies alone – like akela the lone wolf, or like clint eastwood, do ye feel lucky, punk!.

Uh-huh. Not to mention that higher-end aquatic life as well – dolphins, turtles, sharks, even whales are strangled in nets. Not to mention the destruction done to coral reefs by cyanide poisoning and trawler nets. Let’s not forget about those species which are driven to the brink of extinction – cod, eel, yellowfin and bluefin tuna. Unfortunately these days fish is increasingly touted as the healthier option compared to red meat. Fishing is really the least morally acceptable form of animal harvesting!

The Hindu Council UK said: “The Hindu community will welcome this decision and the news it has been made partly because Hindus don’t eat beef.

“Hindus have a great deal of respect for British culture and are well integrated into the British way of life, so it’s good to see evidence of how they are literally flying the British flag by choosing British Airways. “That said, Hindus are tolerant of the beliefs of others and do not expect everyone to stop eating a food because they do not eat it.” In the past three months world beef prices have risen from about £2,500 a tonne to more than £4,000 a tonne, largely because of the weakening dollar and rising feed costs. BA also said that cost is not a reason for the decision to stop serving beef. Why can’t BA set the record straight? Beef in India is awesome – lean, juicy, and flavourful. Syrian beef curry, Bangalore Beef Brinjal, and Bade Miyan’s Boti Kabab in Colaba, the kati rolls at Nizam’s Calcutta, I could go on…

I’ve had Indian beef some years ago in Christian Kerala (at a Hindu family’s home). I think that the meat may have been more tougher (or this may have been because of Indian’s over-cooking of meats). Goat meat rules, my friend. Next time, I think that I’ll have to try Indian beef. Did you know that the Brahma bull, which is the predominant meat cow in S. and N. America, came from the Indian zebu cow? Also, there are about 100M cows in the USA and about 400M in India, and on a per capita basis, these two numbers are equal.

Finally, I recently read, maybe on this thread, that cows are the biggest causes of greenhouse gases, and it surpasses CO2 emissions from cars. I find this VERY hard to believe. If this is true, then I will consider removing beef from my diet.