Mary Robinson wants you to go vegan

RobertKK · 29-09-2016 07:07PM #1

Former Irish president and the current jet setting climate justice warrior Mary Robinson want people to eat little to no meat and instead to go vegan.
http://m.independent.ie/irish-news/climate-change-and-you/eat-less-meat-or-no-meat-at-all-mary-robinson-suggests-going-vegan-to-reduce-carbon-footprint-35088537.html

She has a great time with her climate justice flying around the world telling people how they are destroying the planet and their carbon footprint.

Nothing about her huge carbon footprint, but you should be cutting meat out and go vegan.

Here in Ireland this year there has been major issues with the grain crops gone unharvested due to weather conditions, but the cattle and sheep can live and give food when other food is rotting in the fields.

As I said, nothing about her high air miles totals per year, but she did complain that her grandchildren have too many toys and there is over consumption in the developed world.
Fair point but it would be nice if she looked at herself before she preaches to the rest of us about what we eat.
I want my milk and I want my meat, she wants her air miles.
Maybe if Mary didn't have a huge carbon footprint, probably much bigger than the average person who eats dairy and meat, she would have some credibility.
She is out of touch with ordinary people.

Ted111 · 29-09-2016 07:09PM

It's funny they used to call her Big Bird and she has a big carbon footprint.

kfallon · 29-09-2016 07:12PM

She can go and ask me flute.....

qo2cj1dsne8y4k · 29-09-2016 07:14PM

I used to see her a lot and a vegan lifestyle isn't doing much for her, she's aging like a dead fish.

Alf Stewart. · 29-09-2016 07:14PM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvMFm5nKeUc

Old Bill · 29-09-2016 07:17PM

Noddy is always talking about "inequality" yet she her self is a multi millionaire and has 5 pensions.

deco nate · 29-09-2016 07:18PM

She wants me to eat my foods food..
She can feck right off!

Special Circumstances · 29-09-2016 07:27PM

What's her stance on the oul ghee?

29-09-2016 07:32PM

RobertKK wrote: »

Nothing about her huge carbon footprint, but you should be cutting meat out and go vegan.

Domestic livestock farmed for human consumption are responsible for about 15% of greenhouse gases, which is not only more than Mary Robinson's airline contributions, but it's about 7 times more than is emitted by the entire aviation industry worldwide.

http://www.fao.org/ag/againfo/resources/en/publications/tackling_climate_change/index.htm (that's a .pdf)

I'm not a vegetarian, let alone a vegan; but data like this probably does encourage me to cut down on meat and animal products (and I'm saying this as someone from a farming background). We could all behave more responsibly with very little effort.

Kintarō Hattori · 29-09-2016 07:36PM

I cooked a broccoli and mushroom quiche last night.... I'm doing my bit!

Peregrine · 29-09-2016 07:41PM

RobertKK wrote: »

She has a great time with her climate justice flying around the world telling people how they are destroying the planet and their carbon footprint.

Nothing about her huge carbon footprint, but you should be cutting meat out and go vegan.
...
As I said, nothing about her high air miles totals per year

Animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all of the transport industry combined.

Do you know anything about the topic? You're coming across as just a very angry and ill-informed man.

Grayson · 29-09-2016 07:42PM

She's right though, food insecurity is a huge deal. Veganism is the way forward. It doesn't mean that we have to completely cut out meat just yet but we do need to scale back. If everyone started by eating vegan just one day a week it would make a difference.
Don't get me wrong, I love meat and I hate vegetables but thankfully there are alternatives now. There's been a lot of process in developing vegan/vegetarian meat substitutes. I haven't made a lasagna or bologense with meat in years because stuff like quorn tastes just as good.

Harvey Normal · 29-09-2016 07:42PM

Old Bill wrote: »

Noddy is always talking about "inequality" yet she her self is a multi millionaire and has 5 pensions.

She left the foremost office in Ireland for career and status reasons too. Unheard of. She remained uncriticisable.

Alf Stewart. · 29-09-2016 07:47PM

Grayson wrote: »

She's right though, food insecurity is a huge deal. Veganism is the way forward. It doesn't mean that we have to completely cut out meat just yet but we do need to scale back. If everyone started by eating vegan just one day a week it would make a difference.
Don't get me wrong, I love meat and I hate vegetables but thankfully there are alternatives now. There's been a lot of process in developing vegan/vegetarian meat substitutes. I haven't made a lasagna or bologense with meat in years because stuff like quorn tastes just as good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEr4od4jQk0

Fr_Dougal · 29-09-2016 07:47PM

Grayson wrote: »

She's right though, food insecurity is a huge deal. Veganism is the way forward. It doesn't mean that we have to completely cut out meat just yet but we do need to scale back. If everyone started by eating vegan just one day a week it would make a difference.
Don't get me wrong, I love meat and I hate vegetables but thankfully there are alternatives now. There's been a lot of process in developing vegan/vegetarian meat substitutes. I haven't made a lasagna or bologense with meat in years because stuff like quorn tastes just as good.

Quorn, with extra (unlabelled)eggs.

http://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2016-09-28/quorn-recall-soups-wrongly-labelled-as-vegan/

stimpson · 29-09-2016 07:49PM

Harvey Normal wrote: »

She left the foremost office in Ireland for career and status reasons too. Unheard of. She remained uncriticisable.

UN Commissioner for Human Rights is all handjobs and cocaine parties alright.

Harvey Normal · 29-09-2016 07:54PM

stimpson wrote: »

UN Commissioner for Human Rights is all handjobs and cocaine parties alright.

It's still jumping ship. Resigning irelands highest office because "so long fcukers I've got a better job".

KungPao · 29-09-2016 07:55PM

Grayson wrote: »

She's right though, food insecurity is a huge deal. Veganism is the way forward. It doesn't mean that we have to completely cut out meat just yet but we do need to scale back. If everyone started by eating vegan just one day a week it would make a difference.
Don't get me wrong, I love meat and I hate vegetables but thankfully there are alternatives now. There's been a lot of process in developing vegan/vegetarian meat substitutes. I haven't made a lasagna or bologense with meat in years because stuff like quorn tastes just as good.

Quorn chicken nuggets are great, nicer than most real ones. The chicken bits taste like nothing, but are okay in a curry, but come on now...quorn mince is not a patch on real beef mince...not even close.

I went pescatarian for a while, but I felt like **** so went back to beef.

RobertKK · 29-09-2016 08:03PM

Peregrine wrote: »

Animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all of the transport industry combined.

Do you know anything about the topic? You're coming across as just a very angry and ill-informed man.

I am not angry, just pointing she is a hypocrite.

I know the world population is increasing, and Mary Robinson is saying we should go vegan, when humans for millennia have eaten meat and dairy.

She is also advocating the decimation of the Irish agricultural sector, what good are the grain crops in parts of this country where the weather has not been as good as we had it in the east and south east?
How will rotten food feed people?

Large parts of Ireland is not suitable for food crops, but is for animal rearing, and we can do is more cost effective both economically and environmentally friendly than in most parts of the planet.

It would be better if she was advocating the re-afforestation of the tropical rainforests, more forestry instead of agriculture on poor land, instead of her pushing her own cash cow and large emissions of greenhouse gases with her jet setting preaching.

When she cuts back on her own lifestyle, then she can preach. No one wants to be told what to eat by someone who has a privileged lifestyle.

freshpopcorn · 29-09-2016 08:05PM

#EATYOURMEAT!

Rockefellers · 29-09-2016 08:09PM

"I know the world population is increasing, and Mary Robinson is saying we should go vegan, when humans for millennia have eaten meat and dairy."

Who gives a crap what people did for millennia. We have evolved and now know the damage livestock does to the environment and the damage eating meat does to our health. Time to bring in a tax on meat to compensate society for the damage it does to the environment and the massive health costs for treating people with heart disease/diabetes/cancers caused by eating meat.

Alf Veedersane · 29-09-2016 08:10PM

Cattle and their meaty friends are polluting fu*ckers so I'm doing my bit and eating them closer to extinction, day by day.

Making a contribution.

Vegans are useless fu*cks.

Stigura · 29-09-2016 08:13PM

F**k this sh1t! I'm off to put my steak on

Alf Veedersane · 29-09-2016 08:16PM

Rockefellers wrote: »

Time to bring in a tax on meat to compensate society for the damage it does to the environment and the massive health costs for treating people with heart disease/diabetes/cancers caused by eating meat.

Yeah, because it's the presence of meat in someone's diet that causes such diseases and not the dozens of other dietary amd environmental factors.

RobertKK · 29-09-2016 08:19PM

Rockefellers wrote: »

"I know the world population is increasing, and Mary Robinson is saying we should go vegan, when humans for millennia have eaten meat and dairy."

Who gives a crap what people did for millennia. We have evolved and now know the damage livestock does to the environment and the damage eating meat does to our health. Time to bring in a tax on meat to compensate society for the damage it does to the environment and the massive health costs for treating people with heart disease/diabetes/cancers caused by eating meat.

So the poachers are helping the planet by removing animals imagine all the methane an elephant or rhinoceros
released everyday...

People should eat a varied diet, and everything in moderation.

Humans, not livestock are the biggest polluters.

Mongfinder General · 29-09-2016 08:19PM

**** off you bobble headed twat

freedominacup · 29-09-2016 08:29PM

Rockefellers wrote: »

Who gives a crap what people did for millennia. We have evolved and now know the damage livestock does to the environment and the damage eating meat does to our health. Time to bring in a tax on meat to compensate society for the damage it does to the environment and the massive health costs for treating people with heart disease/diabetes/cancers caused by eating meat.

Food miles, food miles, food miles. I'll stand your typical extensively produced Irish beef steak against any number of non native fruits and vegetables grown in areas where farmers are subsidised to buy water by the acre foot. And then these products are put on a plane to ensure they arrive fresh.Point of information an acre foot of water is around 1,200,000 litres per acre. Look around your typical Irish housing estate. Every 8 houses occupy around one acre. Imagine 1.2 million litres of water in that area. Then treble or quadruple it.

Somehow this form of agriculture is much more virtuous than the few suckler cows you see dotted around huge tracts of this country where carbon has been sequestered for centuries because the land has never been tilled and where little or no artificial fertiliser is used and definitely no herbicides or pesticides. But that doesn't fit with the narrative does it or provide an opportunity for the self proclaimed prophets of virtuous consumption to preach to the masses.

The_Valeyard · 29-09-2016 08:35PM

A nice steak is one of my new pleasures in life.

She can f*ck right off.

Rockefellers · 29-09-2016 08:36PM

Nearly half of all the water used in the U.S. goes to raising animals for food.

It takes more than 2,400 gallons of water to produce just 1 pound of meat, but it takes just 25 gallons to grow 1 pound of wheat.

You save more water by not eating a pound of meat than you do by not showering for six months!

It requires more than 4,000 gallons of water per day to produce food for a typical meat-eater but only 300 gallons of water to produce food for a typical vegan.

darkpagandeath · 29-09-2016 08:37PM

I'm guessing all them state banquets had no carbon footprint.

Harvey Normal · 29-09-2016 08:39PM

Rockefellers wrote: »

Nearly half of all the water used in the U.S. goes to raising animals for food.

It takes more than 2,400 gallons of water to produce just 1 pound of meat, but it takes just 25 gallons to grow 1 pound of wheat.

You save more water by not eating a pound of meat than you do by not showering for six months!

It requires more than 4,000 gallons of water per day to produce food for a typical meat-eater but only 300 gallons of water to produce food for a typical vegan.

If I was eating American beef that might be a concern.

Mary Robinson wants you to go vegan

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