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MEAT AND THE PLANET:Livestock are responsible for about 18 percent of the global warming effect
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| December 28, 2006
Posted on 12/28/2006 12:26:53 PM PST by InvisibleChurch
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To: InvisibleChurch
The human passion for meat is certainly not about to end anytime soon. Our health and the health of the planet depend on pushing livestock production in more sustainable directions. .eat TOFU or we are doomed.
To: CDHart
And CO2; especially after they've fallen and begun to decompose.
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posted on
12/28/2006 1:25:59 PM PST
by
Old Professer
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To: InvisibleChurch
At present, there are about 1.5 billion cattle and domestic buffalo and about 1.7 billion sheep and goats in the world.The 2002 census of cattle and calves in the U.S. was 95,497,994. That isn't much higher than the estimated number of buffalo (60-80 million) that inhabited the plains of North America before the evil white man wiped them out. Buffalo are generally bigger than cattle, eat more and, naturally, fart more. So there is no significant net difference in ruminant produced methane. I expect the same could be said for Africa where fantastically large herds of animals roamed a century or two ago. If anything today's domestic livestock are a good deal fewer in number than the wild herds of old.
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posted on
12/28/2006 1:26:26 PM PST
by
TigersEye
(Ego chatters endlessly on. Mind speaks in great silence.)
To: InvisibleChurch
It's all those Mustangs, Pintos along with the Tauruii, not to menation the bears who cr@p in the woods and those devilish moose turds!
To: TigersEye
The methane comes mainly from the burps; farts are more likely to be hydrogen sulfide.
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posted on
12/28/2006 1:28:13 PM PST
by
Old Professer
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To: All
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posted on
12/28/2006 1:28:51 PM PST
by
Beowulf
To: Young Werther
Those moose turds are especially evil.
To: clamper1797
And how much carbon dioxide is generated by the planets plant life.Plants consume CO2 and give off O2. Animals consume O2 and give off CO2.
The real question is how much CO2 is created in the production of carbonated soft drinks and why haven't the Enviro Wackos marched on the headquarters of Coca Cola and Pepsi corps?
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posted on
12/28/2006 1:30:59 PM PST
by
TigersEye
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To: Old Professer
Does it ever scare you, Professor, that you know that?
To: Mr. Lucky
No more than knowing my aglet from my anklet.
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posted on
12/28/2006 1:33:21 PM PST
by
Old Professer
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To: InvisibleChurch
I ran the numbers and the besI could come up with was 8%.
I think they failed to include an allowance for herd animal decline on the North American plains and African plains. This decline reduces the number by 8.3%.
It also appears that they miscalculated the effect of kelp flowers and krill. Taken together thay make up the difference.
All in all, I think they did pretty shoddy work.
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posted on
12/28/2006 1:34:37 PM PST
by
bert
(K.E. N.P. .... you'll run the bill up kid!....)
To: Donald Rumsfeld Fan
While stationed in Alaska I found some jewelry in the BX that was fashioned from Moose Turds! Goggle moose turds and you'll find my story from an earlier FreeRepublic post!
To: southernerwithanattitude
To: InvisibleChurch
Livestock are responsible for about 18 percent of the global warming effect
And politicians are responsible for the rest.
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posted on
12/28/2006 1:36:23 PM PST
by
Beckwith
(The dhimmicrats and liberal media have chosen sides and they've sided with the Jihadists.)
To: Old Professer
You really have an anklet?
To: Old Professer
The methane comes mainly from the burps; farts are more likely to be hydrogen sulfide.Errr, is hydrogen sulfide flammable? Because if it isn't I can Google up some strange pics to argue the point with you. ;^)
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posted on
12/28/2006 1:40:07 PM PST
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TigersEye
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To: InvisibleChurch
Maybe we should start by killing off all the animals that don't help to sustain human life. (e.g. pandas, koalas, manatees, squirrels and other wildlife.)
It's hard to imagine that domestiaced animals are farting more than wild ones.
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posted on
12/28/2006 1:42:14 PM PST
by
Atlas Sneezed
(Your FRiendly FReeper Patent Attorney)
To: TigersEye
Cattle are ruminants and, as such, produce methane in their digestive process. The methane is expelled as a burp, not a fart. While this simple fact may not be known to the New York Times, it's hardly a secret. Google on something to the effect of "cow burps".
To: TigersEye
Very.
BTW, the smell gives it away, rotten eggs, methane is pretty much odorless.
The natural gas you have in your house averages about 80-85% methane in most of the country and the gas company adds an odorant to allow a leak to be readily detected.
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posted on
12/28/2006 1:50:33 PM PST
by
Old Professer
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To: InvisibleChurch
As long as they arent fried in trans-fat.
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posted on
12/28/2006 1:53:16 PM PST
by
sgtbono2002
(The fourth estate is a fifth column.)
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