What about DANCING COWS?........................
Posted on 07/20/2016 6:51:12 AM PDT by Olog-hai
An animal rights group is up in arms after a study suggested that beef from cows that graze naturally outside has a higher environmental impact than beef from cows fattened on farms.
The study, published by the Swiss federal government’s agricultural research body, Agroscope, last month, compared the environmental effect of cows raised on alpine pastures in the summer and those reared on farms complying with the Terra-Suisse label.
The report found that, since cows reared on pastures graze on natural grasses, they take around 20 months to reach the required weight for slaughter, compared with 15 months for cows fattened using concentrated fodder on farms.
As a result, pasture-raised cows ultimately eat more, and produce more methane, it said. …
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What about DANCING COWS?........................
let the third world starve....
For once I side with the animal rights groups.
Grass fed is far better for them and for us.
Cow farts are going to produce tidal waves and super tornadoes. All these people need padded cells.
By ‘them’ I mean the cows, not the animal rights people.
Just imagine how bad it would be if the buffaloes weren’t dwindled down
Sound like “Free Range” and “Organic” are the biggest environmental weapons ever perpetrated on mankind.
Some people just have waaaaaaaay too much time on their hands.
“Just imagine how bad it would be if the buffaloes weren’t dwindled down”
The buffalos would be fine no matter how much they farted because they fit the narrative.
IBCB
That's just funny...
Yes that is funny and I’ll bet it has a lot of libs squirming in their chairs!
Let’s just outlaw eating beef completely and as the species dies out, a few can be kept in zoos for our kids to see.
” yes Johnnie, people used to eat those precious animals!” :-(
I think you misread the article
From an old rancher! Our family has been in this business for over 100 years and the last 40 of them have been on my shoulders. We have 42 square miles total of family owned ranch. This year I’m running 25 head per square mile (It’s been a good wet year), on a bad year I may run 12 to 14. The only feed I buy is range cubes and that’s only used to get the cows in for a head count. Our’s are about as 100% organic as they come and we never planned it that way, it’s just the way it’s done down here in West Texas. They eat grass, weed’s, cactus and anything else they fine palatable. They also keep the ground broke up so we have good permeability when we do get those much needed rains. Without that a crust forms and the water just keeps running south and we get no benefit. On the other side I’m in the oil and gas business and can verify that methane is a naturally formed gas from decomposition, so present in our life that when we run sniffers over a pipeline looking for leaks we sniff for pentane because methane is everywhere. We naturally produce more methane than the cows will ever be able to accomplish.
You’re right. I did. Thanks.
We have a much smaller ranch on the Texas Gulf Coast. This has been a very rainy year and our cows are knee deep in green grass. I think I have heard my husband say he can run 6 cows per acre in a good year.
All those grazing animals couldn’t stop the last Ice Age
At least two of those comments have more methane in them than your average cow.
My Brangus cattle average the same weight as Buffalo. Average bull runs about 950 to 1200 lbs in 2 years with a yield of 450 lbs. Mormons didn’t drink coffee but they did drink tea. Mormon tea which was made from a plant called Ephedera Nevadensis. I’ve seen no reference in history that the available water in that area was contaminated with Buffalo feces.
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