Though there are 6.5 million cows in Ireland they are offsetting their contribution to the planet's methane by being a huge part of the food chain ... whereas the 305 million cows in India wander through their protected lives maybe giving a bit of milk for a while .... contributing massively to methane production with little or no return .... with their numbers completely out of proportion to their utility due to religious, and increasingly political, considerations .... if one cow population has to go for the good of the planet then it shouldn't be Ireland's .... unless we value religious dogma over science ?
K
Edited this cos it sounded as if I was getting at John personally rather than making a general point
Its a well made point,
I don't know whether the Indians would agree their respective religious views has a lesser standing than meat produced purely to eat. Already its predicted by 2050 we wont be able to produce enough cereal to feed the livestock necessary to meet the current levels of protein in our diet from that source. Converting cereal into meat is not a very productive cycle or use of resources. And with the predicted desertification, flooding of the Asian rice growing river deltas, cereal is going to be a very important food stuff.
