Comments on: Save the planet. Buy meat-offset credits http://johnborland.com/wordpress/2008/01/28/save-the-planet-buy-meat-offset-credits/ Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:07:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Veggie Links for 15-Apr-2008 http://johnborland.com/wordpress/2008/01/28/save-the-planet-buy-meat-offset-credits/#comment-102920 Veggie Links for 15-Apr-2008 Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:31:42 +0000 http://johnborland.com/wordpress/2008/01/28/save-the-planet-buy-meat-offset-credits/#comment-102920 [...] ready to go veggie? How about buying some meat-offset credits from us vegetarians? [...] [...] ready to go veggie? How about buying some meat-offset credits from us vegetarians? [...]

]]> By: Jul http://johnborland.com/wordpress/2008/01/28/save-the-planet-buy-meat-offset-credits/#comment-102917 Jul Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:19:29 +0000 http://johnborland.com/wordpress/2008/01/28/save-the-planet-buy-meat-offset-credits/#comment-102917 I like it! But as one of the vegetarians who stands to get rich, I might be a little biased. I like it! But as one of the vegetarians who stands to get rich, I might be a little biased.

]]> By: Click http://johnborland.com/wordpress/2008/01/28/save-the-planet-buy-meat-offset-credits/#comment-91589 Click Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:52:56 +0000 http://johnborland.com/wordpress/2008/01/28/save-the-planet-buy-meat-offset-credits/#comment-91589 I'm in. The day this happens I will be a rich rich woman. Vegetarians, fattening the already fat of the earth by encouraging further demand for their product. There's almost an agreeable symmetry there. Almost. Nice post dude. I’m in. The day this happens I will be a rich rich woman. Vegetarians, fattening the already fat of the earth by encouraging further demand for their product. There’s almost an agreeable symmetry there. Almost. Nice post dude.

]]> By: Ben http://johnborland.com/wordpress/2008/01/28/save-the-planet-buy-meat-offset-credits/#comment-82768 Ben Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:49:05 +0000 http://johnborland.com/wordpress/2008/01/28/save-the-planet-buy-meat-offset-credits/#comment-82768 Though I detect some thick sarcasm in the first line, you're actually pretty serious about this and, well, might just be onto something. I have to think about it some more. Zum Thema: check out this rilly kewl poster by a Stuttgart designer --> http://www.traumkrieger.de/virtualwater/ I think I'm gonna hafta get it. Though I detect some thick sarcasm in the first line, you’re actually pretty serious about this and, well, might just be onto something. I have to think about it some more.

Zum Thema: check out this rilly kewl poster by a Stuttgart designer –> http://www.traumkrieger.de/virtualwater/
I think I’m gonna hafta get it.

]]> By: BV http://johnborland.com/wordpress/2008/01/28/save-the-planet-buy-meat-offset-credits/#comment-82516 BV Thu, 31 Jan 2008 16:11:50 +0000 http://johnborland.com/wordpress/2008/01/28/save-the-planet-buy-meat-offset-credits/#comment-82516 As much as I like this idea (and I do), a free market presupposes a population free to make its own decisions on how it spends its money and companies earning those dollars through innovation. By legislating the amount of meat a person can eat, you'd be mussing up that personal liberty a bit, no? Applying the principle of utility here, you'd likely be correct to say there is a universal good in curtailing the giant agribusinesses and factory farms that dominate the food industry. But is the good you're talking about significant enough to merit legislation? I might say yes, but could you convince others? As much as I like this idea (and I do), a free market presupposes a population free to make its own decisions on how it spends its money and companies earning those dollars through innovation. By legislating the amount of meat a person can eat, you’d be mussing up that personal liberty a bit, no?

Applying the principle of utility here, you’d likely be correct to say there is a universal good in curtailing the giant agribusinesses and factory farms that dominate the food industry. But is the good you’re talking about significant enough to merit legislation? I might say yes, but could you convince others?

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