Your dog is worse than my SUV!

[john doe]

According to the article a dog's carbon footprint is twice as large as an SUV driven 6,200 miles/year. Polluting pets: the devastating impact of man's best friend

And most dogs are slower and aren't air conditioned either.

[Wingnut]

Sweet! So I can get a, SUV now and call it going green?

[Relentless]

Sweet! So I can get a, SUV now and call it going green?

Only if you trade in your dog for it.

[boyando]

If you have ever driven past the dog food plant, in Ogden, Utah, in your SUV, the fowl smell alone would convince you to get rid of your dog. And every other dog on the planet.

[Relentless]

The same could be said for many different products at some point during their creation. Fat rendering is a horrid smell, yet the fats produced go into everything from makeup to food. Cattleyards can have a stench that reaches over 10 miles away, and yet the beef industry is alive and well.

[pam]

If you have ever driven past the dog food plant, in Ogden, Utah, in your SUV, the fowl smell alone would convince you to get rid of your dog. And every other dog on the planet.

If you've ever driven down past Price, Utah and the surrounding areas, it would make you swear off turkeys forever as well.

[beefche]

Is there anywhere I can drive past that will make me swear off Mountain Dew, chocolate, and ice cream?

[pam]

A Weight Watchers meeting in progress?

[Wingnut]

Only if you trade in your dog for it.

My point exactly: I don't have one.

If you've ever driven down past Price, Utah and the surrounding areas, it would make you swear off turkeys forever as well.

Fine by me...I don't like turkey.

A Weight Watchers meeting in progress?

Ouch! :)

[beefche]

A Weight Watchers meeting in progress?

Are you kidding? We used to go to WW then go to Krispy Kreme afterwards to talk about how great a meeting it was.

[Dravin]

Is there anywhere I can drive past that will make me swear off Mountain Dew, chocolate, and ice cream?

Babysit a couple dozen 8 year olds and provide them with all the Mountain Dew, Chocolate and Ice Cream they want?

[boyando]

If you've ever driven down past Price, Utah and the surrounding areas, it would make you swear off turkeys forever as well.

Been there, done that. And yet, I still love turkey. (Although I think you are thinking more like Manti, Ephraim area.)

As a teen, I worked on a egg farm, gathering eggs. And at time the smell was so bad, it made me woosey.

I have lived a couple of years, on a small farm, with half a dozen milk cows. And now when I drive past a farm, with my wife, she say's "I smell animals" and I just think, it smells like my home away from home.

I once made a delivery to a million acre cow ranch, were because of snow, I had to spend the night, sleeping in the bunk house, with the buckaroos. There is a distinct smell to a real bunk house.

Driven past many unique smells, in my life time. Never past (to my knowledge) a fat rendering plant. Been to cattle yards and butcher shops and the smell doesn't come close to a dog food plant.

Here's why {(I am doing this in white, because I know that many of you dog owners love your dog's like family)The white thing is something I saw on another thread. I forgot who it was who showed this trick, but thanks to who ever you are.} To read, just highlight.

The reason a dog food plant smells so bad is because a main source of meat, for dog food, comes from dead animals found on farms and ranches. If a rancher comes across a dead animal, he will make the call and someone will come and pick it up for him/her, so they don't have to get rid of the carcass. Think of six hundred pounds of hamburger, just lying in the sun.

Then the animal, be it cow, horse or pig, goes through testing, to make sure it doesn't have a disease that can be past on.

Then it is cooked, long and hard. Kind of like dead animal in a crock pot, set on high, for hours, or days.

Not that it improves the smell, but you can really smell the vegetables, cooking with the dead meat.

You know, I really do like dogs. Just not more than I love my SUV. So the only carbon foot print I care about is a tire track over the foot of any one who wants to cram me into a clown car, or worse, mass transit.

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[pam]

Been there, done that. And yet, I still love turkey. (Although I think you are thinking more like Manti, Ephraim area.)

Yes more those areas..but to me..once you are down that way..it's all the same to me. lol

[Iggy]

Dog farts have nothing over cat farts- and I am a cat lover too. But when recycled fish/chicken/pork/beef works it way out of a cat- hoooey does it stink.

Nearly two nights a week the dairymen mix up the slurry and the wind distributes the smell over the town - we call it Dairy Air (derrière) - slurry is liquefied cow poop.

In Tacoma WA there is the pulp mill - that is one nasty smelling place. Same for Toledo OR- pulp mill. Wet, fermented wood pulp - Think I prefer Dog and Cat farts- at least those will dissipate.

Oh, have to add Trona CA where the Kerr-McGee chemical plant is- I have forgotten how many times in a 24 hour time frame they purge the exhaust in the plant-they blow an alarm when they do. I finally got used to the alarm, but I was there for a month and never did get used to the stench.

[Just_A_Guy]

Did the study that led to this conclusion include the environmental impact of actually manufacturing the SUV?

[Dravin]

In Tacoma WA there is the pulp mill - that is one nasty smelling place. Same for Toledo OR- pulp mill. Wet, fermented wood pulp - Think I prefer Dog and Cat farts- at least those will dissipate.

Talking of pulp makes me think of the mill in Lewiston, ID. The smell of over boiled cabbage permiates the air. The fun this is Lewiston sits in a hole, so you get a kind of inversion effect. You are driving along and everything is fine and then... BAM! It hits you full force, it's Potlatch saying, "Welcome to Lewiston." :)