More right wing BS: bicycles

[Tero]

Trump has not attacked us cyclists yet, but I'm sure it is coming. We won't take our hat off like the patriotic Nascar fans.

But one Harvard researcher has called that notion into question. According to graduate student Daniel Thorpe, what’s important isn’t that you’re burning fat instead of fossil fuels, but what you consumed to produce that fat in the first place.

In findings published through Harvard University’s Keith Group, Thorpe singles out cyclists who consume diets heavy in animal byproducts – specifically those who follow the Paleo Diet – as being more harmful to the environment than individuals who eat plant-based diets and drive low-emission vehicles.

Basically, your bacon-fueled bike commute is killing the planet, so you best be trading in that Schwinn for a Prius and a pile of chickpeas.

Thorpe’s conclusion is drawn by using a measure called carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2e), which enables scientists to provide a unit-for-unit comparison of different kinds of gases based on their “Global Warming Potential” (GWP), and thereby analyze more complex scenarios that involve emissions of multiple different types of gases in order to more accurately gauge their environmental impact.

https://momentummag.com/carnivorous-cyc ... esearcher/

[laklak]

I am having steak and kidney pie tonight, so I'm doing my part to rid the planet of those methane fart producing cattle.

[mistermack]

Who's eating animal byproducts? That's disgusting.

And wasteful of energy that could be turned into biofuel like methane.

You have to look at the whole picture when it comes to eating meat. Look at the fertiliser it generates, and the leather.

[Hermit]

Who's eating animal byproducts? That's disgusting.

And wasteful of energy that could be turned into biofuel like methane.

You have to look at the whole picture when it comes to eating meat. Look at the fertiliser it generates, and the leather.

Kidneys are not animal byproducts. They are as integral to what an animal produces in terms of food as the stuff we turn into steaks, and no more suitable for turning into methane.

[pErvinalia]

I ate sheep tonight. Fucken nice!

[mistermack]

Kidneys are not animal byproducts. They are as integral to what an animal produces in terms of food as the stuff we turn into steaks, and no more suitable for turning into methane.

Didn't say they were.

It's the OP that says byproducts.

[mistermack]

I ate sheep tonight. Fucken nice!

Fucken and eaten eh?

Nice.

[Brian Peacock]

Your bacon-fueled bike commute is killing the planet, so you best be trading in that Schwinn for a Prius and a pile of chickpeas.

I think the chickpeas would be enough. I can't see the manufacture, distribution, and maintenance of a bike, even an expensive one, comparing equally with a car, even a hybrid. Plus car driving is sedentary where bike riding isn't.

I call "alarmist" on the article.