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Originally Posted by OMEGAMAN
Who is being forced to eat big macs? I ate one of those grease ball burgers the other day by choice nobody forced me to do it. What is neccasary for us to eat and keep you happy because that is what this is all about.
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Nobody's forcing anyone, but the relentless marketing and ubiquitous presence of McDonald's et.al. makes for increased consumption of environmentally unsound beef IMO, just as relentless marketing makes for increased and imprudent overconsumption in general.
It's not all about keeping me happy... I wasn't the one who brought up "And lets not talk vegetarian, I'd rather put a gun to my head." The poster who brought that up rightly identified overpopulation as the root of many of our environmental problems. My point isn't about what will "keep me happy," it's about how do we manage our rapidly disappearing resources in the face of a worldwide population that is not going to shrink any time soon. I don't know why dealing with the problems of disappearing resources and environmental degradation has become a liberal vs. conservative issue. One would think that this is the one thing on which everyone could find some common ground if not total agreement.