+131 If you think about it, it really doesn't make sense that some people don't want to use as much paper to "save the trees". Even if you don't use it, it's already been printed and it's already here, so a tree has already been cut down to make it. It doesn't matter if you use it or not. amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

ya but if it is used less then there is a smaller need for paper so you dont have to cut down anymore trees :D

by Anonymous 13 years ago

http://blogs.whattheythink.com/...9t-save-trees/ Nowadays trees are planted for this. They must fulfill their destiny, use paper as you damn well please.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The real purpose of trees is to do things like hold the soil together and put oxygen back into the air.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The "original" purpose.*

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Same Idea with Vegetarians, Even if you don't eat the meat their going to make it and now some of it's going to have to be thrown away!

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Most veggies aren't protesting against other people eating meat, they just don't want to eat it themselves. It's different.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not the Vegetarians I've met, they believe that if they don't eat it it'll cease to exist, which is the most flawed logic I've heard of

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Well, you just met one that doesn't want to eat it themselves and has absolutely no problem with other people eating it. I mean, who am I to deprive them of that?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Good for you...?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

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by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's not actually true. By not eating the meat, there is less of demand for it which means the slaughterhouses will supply less. It's very simple economics.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Maybe, but demand for meat will never cease to exist.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No most likely not, but the more people that go vegetarian/vegan the lesser the demand.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Using less paper over the long term means less demand, which means less production, which means fewer trees being cut down.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

True, you have a point.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Exactly- I just filed my taxes, and you'd be suprised(if you haven't seen it) how much paper is involved in "e-filing". It's outright ridiculous. The good thing is, a lot of paper is at least partly recycled these days, so that's something.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

cool story brah.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Sorry, that loses any little sting it might have when it's said by an anontard.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

...which in turn means less need for lumber to make the paper, which means less need for lumberjacks to cut down said trees/less tree farmers/less whatever-you'd-call-the-people-who-process-the-freaking-paper-stuff. Either way, someone loses.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

(BreakfastFan) I was going to say that X) It also applies to (Moonfang66)'s post: less meat you eat, the less meat is bought so there's a lower demand of meat and consequently less animals killed.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's sort of true, but unlike paper, meat is perishable. So if the animal has already been killed, there really is no point in not eating it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

on the contrary. picture this. There's a small town, and the majority of the people in that town are vegetarians. A supermarket might at first buy huge huge amounts of meat, but next week, when all the meat goes bad, they realize that they wasted so much and they'll buy less next time. Being vegetarian is just that on a bigger scale.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah I understand that. I was just pointing out that you can buy a bunch of paper and store it indefinetely until you need to use it. You can't do that with meat. If that same town bought a ton of paper it would be no big deal because they could just sell it over time. But you can't do that with meat, so it would be stupid for those townspeople to let it go to waste.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I think the concept is that you use your paper conservatively.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

If consumers use less, they will demand less. If consumers demand less, suppliers will supply less. Simple economics.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Although paper is still being made with trees, it's mainly synthetic nowadays anyway.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The concept of vegetarianism is to protest the meat industry by not supplying demand for their product. If 90% of the population eats meat, the slaughterhouses will kill the number of animals to fill this demand. If 10% more people (out of total pop.) become vegetarians, the meat companies will only kill enough animals to feed that demand. Vegetarians try to reduce demand for meat, so that less animals are killed. The same concept applies to reducing paper.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

its basically this: eating meat is mean. dont do it. using more than u need is mean. dont do it.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It's sad how little people grasp the concept of supply and demand...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

now i feel like eating meat... mmmm

by Anonymous 13 years ago