June 25th 2008
The Green Quote: George Carlin On Eating Less Meat
Filed under: animals — michael @ 4:17 pm
“And I think people have a lot of nerve locking up a tiger and charging four dollars to let a few thousand worthless humans shuffle past him every day. What a shi**y thing to do. Humans must easily be the meanest species on Earth. Probably the only reason there are any tigers left is because they don’t taste good.”
“Eating meat is one thing, but this whole beef-rancher-manure-cattle-hamburger side show is a different skillet of sh** altogether. Each year, Americans eat 38 billion hamburgers. It takes 2,500 gallons of water to produce one pound of red meat. Cattle consume one half of all the fresh water consumed on Earth. The sixty million people who will starve this year could be adequately fed if Americans reduced their meat intake to just 10 percent.”
– The late comedian George Carlin from his book Brain Droppings.
via PETA
Interesting thoughts from the late comedian. I’ve heard that another way to reduce meat’s impact on the ecosystem is to feed cows grass rather than corn, which is their natural diet anyway. Supposedly the meat tastes just as good; it’s just a little leaner.
Right on!!!
I would like to hear Al Gore address this subject, Carlin was great but alot of people took him the wrong way, if someone like Oprah, Gore or Obama would ask Americans to go vegetarian week, or better yet VEGAN for 1 week maybe we’d get a few meat eaters to join the force.
Good luck! Isn’t Gore a cattle rancher?
The correct quote as published in his book is “if Americans reduced their meat intake BY just 10 percent.” not TO just 10 percent. Semantically, there is a huge difference.
I’m in favor of veganism, but please, check your facts because this sort of inaccuracy is multiplied a thousandfold on the web as other sites re-quote and link to such errors.
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