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Old Jul 20, 2007, 07:29 AM
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Global Warming and Cattle Flatulence

Well the concensus is in . Drive your SUV all you want to . But whatever you do ,don't eat that burger !!!!!

Eating beef ' is less green than driving' - Telegraph

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"2.2lb of beef is responsible for greenhouse gas emissions which have the same effect as the carbon dioxide released by an ordinary car travelling at 50 miles per hour for 155 miles, a journey lasting three hours. The amount of energy consumed would light a 100-watt bulb for 20 days. Most of the greenhouse gas emissions are in the form of methane released from the animals' digestive systems, New Scientist magazine reported."
Yup the French ski resorts areall muddy due to cow farts . This may not be what the Global Warming Alarmists want to hear ;but PETA is ecstatic ! . James Hansen at NASA is said to working as we speak calculating an allowable level of sustainable farting consistent with a concensus global warming model and trying to determine if the methane levels on the Great Plains significantly increased with the domestication of the cow compared to a time when the wild Bison overpopulated the continent and ate all the trees saplings before they could emerge into a triple canopied forest .

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So... you can't let the cows live, because the methane from their farts is screwing up the environment. And you can't kill them for the meat because that screws up the environment. So what's the solution?

Answer: there is no solution. Because it's all bull$h!t. Or is it cow$h!t?

Elliot

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speechlesstx agrees: Take your pick
tomder55 agrees: Sorta explains the heat and monsoons on the Indian sub-continent .They have evidently been running a global warming laboratory there for some time . Good thing they've discovered industrialization.
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So we're back to cow farts, huh? I'm sure you noticed the moonbats' positive spin on this...

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Su Taylor, the press officer for the Vegetarian Society, told New Scientist: "Everybody is trying to come up with different ways to reduce carbon footprints, but one of the easiest things you can do is to stop eating meat."
I guess that means I wouldn't have to worry if I'm eco-friendly in my grilling or not.
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Everytime I hear some scientist going on and on about cow farts I think about the scene in Jurassic Park where Dr. Malcolm played by Jeff Goldblum remarks "now, that's a pile of sh*t." If animal methane was going to ruin the atmosphere - wouldn't it have happened millions of years ago when huge, leaf-eating creatures roamed the earth? Can you imagine the amount of methane a brachiosaurus could release? It must have sounded like a bomb going off.

I believe it is our job as good stewards to protect the earth. I also believe that the earth goes through natural cycles of warming and cooling and there are too many people trying to use this issue to forward their own political agenda.

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speechlesstx agrees: Yeah, but wasn't that before man came along and screwed everything up? Good, sensible answer :)
tomder55 agrees: you have to remember that the North Pole was a tropical rain forest back then so farts are back on the table. I just wonder why it's cows and not Wilderbeast that are the problem ???? curious minds want to know .
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I am still shaking my head and laughing. Now there has to be some bright scientist that will come up with a device to trap the methane and recycle it into something greener and cleaner for the enivronment. Can you see it now? Cows and bulls (not to be sexist) and of course, the steers too, being measured and fitted for methane trapping devices?

Souns like a sure fire grant proposal to me.

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Emland agrees: Beanos for bulls or maybe Bovine Gas-X?
speechlesstx agrees: Careful, someone's probably working on it. Until then, I'd be watching for the EPA to be setting up gas monitoring devices on ranches everywhere.
tomder55 agrees: tomder inc is on the case . a fart scrubber !!!! Do you want a job in our creative concepts dept. ? We have to reach an allowable sustainable fart level to save the planet .
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Actually, Shy, there is a guy doing this already! Well, sort of. You must not watch Dirty Jobs!

There's a guy who makes "cow pots";

CowPots - Biodegradable Planting Pot made from Composted Cow Manure. An innovative solution for horticulture.

Apparently he takes the cow poo and pushes it into a crazy contraption he made which functions a lot like a stomach. The "farts" from the "stomach" are used to heat his home.

So not quite like attaching tubes to cow butts, but using their poo to make power! I looked for a clip on youtube, but it seems no one watches the show but me! According to imdb, it's supposed to be on Discovery tomorrow at 2:00pm. Set your TiVo, everyone!

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tomder55 agrees: I love it !! a planter with it's built in manure compost !!!! Just imagine how big the tomatoes would grow in that !!
shygrneyzs agrees: I sure wish I could see that program. It just some ingenuity to solve problems.
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The plains Native Americans did much of their cooking over buffalo chip fires.

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tomder55 agrees: But as I mentioned ;why wasn't the over population of the Bison a global warming catastrophy ? Cooking on Bison chips ? Must make for an interesting flavor but just the same I'd rather use mesquite.
shygrneyzs agrees: It wasn't just the Native Americans who used cow chips for fuel. Early settlers did also and even as recent as in the Great Depression. One of my Mom's job as a child was to collect the pies/fuel.
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