In a typical nonsensical rant, Beck started off his show yesterday with Lord Stern’s comments and immediately interpreted them as some kind of attack on his right to choose what to eat.

I see this kind of thing all of the time about all kinds of issues with all kinds of people.

If a stranger tells you that you are about to step into a pot hole, the stranger is usually thanked for the info. In other areas of simply trying to point out facts people twist it into a personal indictment of their worth and an intrusion into their lives.

“Who are you to tell *ME*……”

I even see this with progressive people.

Just the other day I posted a comment on a vegan related blog where I simply stated the current population of the planet ( almost 7 billion ) and asked people to limit their family sizes to two kids.

I got at least two “Who *are* YOU?” s accompanied by accusations of trying to TELL people what to do.

Oy, hey, if you want to twist someone pointing out a useful fact into an insult go right ahead. It is your children who will have to live in the polluted, crowded and impoverished world you create.

What people like Jon fail to accept is facts, and the fact in global warming is that meat production is the leading cause of green-house-gases. Uhhh, “science” like Beck said is what is backing up that statement, not emotional rants about “you can’t make me do things.” Like Michael said, the current food industry is not sustainable. Acres and acres of woods and forests are eliminated day in and day out to plant the food that livestock will eat, not humans, livestock.

Let alone the cruelty of raising an animal just to be killed, but all those millions of acres dedicated to feed cattle could be instead used to grow soy and other vegetables, but that can only happen if people reduce their consumption of meat. And i said reduce, not eliminate because like with many decisions we make, forgoing meat is an organic process, but let’s just hope that the bulb goes on inside their heads when there is still time to turn this planet around and when the erosion we have caused to Mother Earth is not so deep that we will still be doomed.

Cries of “indoctrination” and “the government is going to decide who lives and dies”, if I can “drive a Honda or a Ford”, and “if today is Turnip Tuesday or Steak Saturday” are just inane.

Nearly the entire world is jacked into a system that is not sustainable in the long term. Change must come from the top, cooperation must come from many, and we need to embrace new solutions quickly.

We are a free people with individual rights.

The Constitution and Bill of Rights were enacted to PROTECT individuals from a over-reaching, controlling Federal Government.

Global Climate Control is simply the mechanism to expatriate individual rights – giving control to world governments. What car to drive, what food to eat, water rights (ie California Farmers). While you see carrots – the rest of us see bigger problems.