Save energy - eat roast mutt

[Blue_Tires]

Eat your dog - because its carbon footprint is bigger than a Toyota Corolla's.


That's what Wellington city councillors have been told by Victoria University research fellow Brenda Vale, who is an authority on sustainable architecture.

Her latest co-authored book, Time to Eat the Dog, investigates ways to modify behaviour to save energy. It will be published next year.

She told a city council briefing last week that all pets should be edible because their carbon footprints - or pawprints, as the case may be - contribute to global warming.

Acting mayor Ian McKinnon said she explained that "a big dog can have a carbon footprint that is the equivalent to a small car and therefore the best way forward, if you are going to have a pet, is to make sure it is edible".

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelsonmail/4699105a6417.html

[undeterred]

1. Well, I think most of us have an aversion to eating dog.

But it doesn't answer why we allow thousands of domestic animals to be put to death every day because there are not enough homes for them and not enough people bother to get their pets spayed and neutered.

[MicaelS]

2. Because

People think having kittens and puppies is just so terribly cute. :eyes: