Comment Re:Good grief.. (Score 1) 942
Indeed if you are raising animals for food it's advised that you don't treat them as pets...
I mean.. it's an interesting report.. but I don't think anything realistic has been proposed here. They may as well have proposed we treat our cars as pets..
Some people already do.
Why even bother looking at this stuff.. there's all kinds of other areas that could realistically be addressed. For example phone books! The amount of resources spent printing and distributing something that 70% of the time probably ends up in a land fill untouched is astounding. I saw some documentary where they were taking core samples at junk yards.. there were literally layers of phone books.. they used it to date the segments..
Regular books and newspapers have also been found in old landfills and remain readable after nearly a century. Paper is far better recycled. If you want to compost it then it needs to be cut into small bits (e.g. with a cross cut shredder or even a woodchipper) and well mixed with with other organic materials.