Damnit rrrrr I was just about to go to bed.

I work at a vegetarian/vegan/gluten free restaurant. Shit's delish yo. I also think that we need to, as a society, eat less meat in general. Finally, I think that Electric cars are cool as shit and think that despite their problems they are important to invest in for the future.

Those caveats aside, we've got some serious problems going on here. Wide swathing, absolutist arguments like these are a recipe for disaster, and are mostly just pissing into the wind (or preaching to the converted, depending on how you like your metaphors). The idea in this article is generally good, but, as bioemerl has pointed out, there are flawed statistics and uncited assertions all over it.

Also, never quote Albert Einstein (a quote I couldn't quickly verify, btw) unless you're writing a piece on physics or an Einstein Bio. Even then, keep in mind that he spent the latter part of his life trying to marry his Special Relativity to quantum physics - unsuccessfully, and to the ill of his reputation. Outside of his field, he was "Just A Dude", like the rest of us and unless you can back his opinion up with hard data then it's not worth the paper it was written on. Never has a man's reputation been so dragged through the mud as Einstein's because of the shit people try to attribute to him.

This article doesn't seem to acknowledge that livestock don't just mean something when it's dead - while it's alive, we can harvest the milk from mammals, the eggs from birds and reptiles (not sure there are any domesticated agricultural reptiles, but shrug). from the milk we can make cheeses, from the bones we can get bone meal to improve the soil health for our plants, from hides we can make leather. If we remove purely meat-purposed cattle herds in favour of a combined purpose herd then we'd be ahead of the game, and still retain some of the jobs that these sub-industries create (as well as delicious cheese and eggs, and useful leather and bone meal).

There are ways to make meat-eating more feasible as well -Offal, for instance. I'm of the Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall view, where we need to use as much as we can, treat the animals with respect, etc.

I'm bagged, so I won't get started on coal-powered cars (i mean cough electric cars ). I feel like this came out a shambles, but hopefully someone got something interesting from it. It was helpful to me to get these thoughts out on "paper".

cheers, all.