The challenge is picking just one per day.

The headline is meant to be a statement of fact, not an endorsement of the idea put forward by Brenda and Robert Vale that people could save the planet by eating their pets.  Chances are that a proponent can be found for even stupid ideas, but the folks who front them usually don’t see them as quite so idiotic.  Of course this particular idea is absurd and the authors are using it mostly as a shock tactic to get people to think of the various ways in which they use resources that are not absolutely essential.

What this book title should do, however, is make people realize the extent to which our modern lifestyles depend upon energy.  In the final analysis, everything we do depends on energy (it’s physics.)  And furthermore, it should point out the kinds of absurd possibilities that are opened up when some third party gets to determine what activities are and are not acceptable usages of energy.  After all, you may feel your pet is a member of the family, but the carbon regulation board may view pets as “non-essential personnel.”