Hummer Green?

Christia Agapakis who is a biologist at UCLA made the following comment: “When you factor in the fertilizer needed to grow animal feed and the sheer volume of methane expelled by cows, a carnivore driving a Prius can contribute more to global warming than a vegan in a Hummer.”

Sounds smart but I think it is really dumb. She has remarkable credentials if you look them up and I have little (well maybe a little) doubt of the factuality of her statement; but it is dumb nevertheless. All it sounds like to me is an argument for vegetarianism, not a bad thing, and an argument for Hummers; a bad thing. Why not just let the vegan drive a Prius?

Also one wonders about the assumption of just how much meat the Prius driver eats per week, and vegans also produce prodigious amounts of methane; beans anyone?

If you want to meet her up close and personal she has a Facebook page, and you can see her on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PTRnSNu2a3g  In her Synthetic Biology Slam. Definitely weird. She also has her own blog. She is very cute and bubbly.

As to my own bias, I think anyone who drives a Hummer out to be jailed for conspicuous consumption. No, we have too many in jail already; better yet, be forced to work in a Prius plant until they get it.