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Does anyone else see the irony in the author spending the first few paragraphs ridiculing PETA for complaining about the affect livestock has on global warming, and then spending the rest of the article talking about how bad livestock is for global warming?
Another point I'd like to touch on is fanaticism. There are a lot of people in this country that have a fanatical hatred for PETA, calling them extremists that don't care about people, etc. However, the number of extremists members of PETA is dwarfed by the number of people who passionately hate them. It's like wingnuts like Sean Hannity complaining that the far left is destroying the U.S., when to find an actual far leftist you need to go to North Korea.
And saying that human overpopulation is the problem is as disingenuous as the NRA's "guns don't kill people, people kill people." Yeah, but the gun has just a *little* to do with it. Our high energy consumption has just a *little* to do with global warming, not just the 6+ billion people on this planet. If we all drove a Prius, carpooled, used the bus, ate more (free range) poultry and less stake, the planet would be a lot better off.
