{"id":1565,"date":"2009-10-23T12:12:23","date_gmt":"2009-10-23T16:12:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=1565"},"modified":"2009-10-23T10:13:36","modified_gmt":"2009-10-23T14:13:36","slug":"check-your-homework-says-the-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2009\/10\/23\/check-your-homework-says-the-dog\/","title":{"rendered":"Check your homework, says the dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda and Robert Vale recently published <em>Eat the Dog: The real guide to sustainable living<\/em>, where they made the case that your pets are a greater environmental burden than a typical SUV. <a href=\"http:\/\/climatesanity.wordpress.com\/2009\/10\/23\/bad-professors-bad-the-truth-about-eat-the-dog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Cocoa the dog<\/a> begs to differ, having checked their math:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>Conclusion<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>0.61 hectares to feed the soulless Toyota Land Cruiser.<\/p>\n<p>0.062 hectares to feed your best friend.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s 10 times as much for the Land Cruiser than for me.  I could have sworn the professors said the dog required twice as much land as the Land Cruiser.  They were only off by a factor of 20.<\/p>\n<p>Bad professors, BAD.  Don\u2019t make me rub your nose in it.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brenda and Robert Vale recently published Eat the Dog: The real guide to sustainable living, where they made the case that your pets are a greater environmental burden than a typical SUV. Cocoa the dog begs to differ, having checked their math: Conclusion 0.61 hectares to feed the soulless Toyota Land Cruiser. 0.062 hectares to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,65,57],"tags":[361,156,39],"class_list":["post-1565","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-environment","category-humour","tag-factchecking","tag-fail","tag-junkscience"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-pf","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1565"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1567,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1565\/revisions\/1567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1565"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1565"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1565"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}