In Tennessee, Goats Eat the ‘Vine That Ate the South’

NY Times ^ | June 5, 2007 | THEO EMERY

[Kirkwood]

Turn it into an alternative fuel.

[MSF BU]

Paul Harvey reported on Goats loving Kudzu...I don’t know...a decade ago? This one goes to the old news file.

[decal]

Print the NY Times out of it.

[Little_shoe]

Anytime goats and tennessee is mentioned I think of the drunk goat at some bar in memphis.

[CheyennePress]

The drunk goat of Silky O’Sullivan’s. He lives in a castle, you know. ;)

[dr_lew]

Turn it into an alternative fuel.

See, this makes no sense. Carbon is carbon. It would be much more efficient to plant vast tracts of kudzu and simply plow it under, sequestering the carbon that the plant has extracted from the atmosphere in compensation for the carbon being released from the combustion of the long-sequestered petroleum and coal deposits.

[holyscroller]

Tell the junkies it gets you high and they’ll smoke it all.

[Grammy]

You should instead think about our fainting goats. If they hear a loud noise they drop over on their sides in a dead out faint.

Goats, by the way, will give you a great field of grass by eating everything *except* the grass.

[oyez]

Cattle will eat it too.

[GovernmentIsTheProblem]

“See, this makes no sense. Carbon is carbon. It would be much more efficient to plant vast tracts of kudzu and simply plow it under, sequestering the carbon that the plant has extracted from the atmosphere in compensation for the carbon being released from the combustion of the long-sequestered petroleum and coal deposits.”

Ah - but when the plants decay, the carbon is released!

[dr_lew]

You have to replicate a "peat bog", which is the precursor to a coal deposit, as far as I understand it. Plant matter is oxidized by organisms which are using it as food. By Wikipedia, this is prevented in a bog by the acidic environment. Anyway, it happens!

[dandelion]

Eeek! You have “fainting goats”? *I* have “fainting goats”!!

I just got mine this spring... talk about “easy keepers”! The neighbors are absolutely fascinated by the fact that they aren’t “escape artists” or “fence jumpers”, plus they eat my mesquite and cedar!

[billhilly]

I see a business opportunity. Many of our Latin “guests” are accustomed to a diet of goat. Also, goat’s milk is rich and healthy. We have endless goat feed in the Kudzu patches throughout the south. This would be a win/win situation. Let the goats take the jobs that americans won’t do.

[buck61]

Cattle will eat it too.

There was a piece on Discovery Channel about the farmers in Ga. using Kudzu for cattle feed. A farmer was shown bailing the stuff and, describing how much more nutrients it contained over grass feeds.

[buck61]

Kudzu.
People can it it also, the bloom is delicious in a salad.

[Freeport]

Into the ground for the most part not as C02. It’s bound to nitrogen & available to the next plant grown their as fertilizer.

True, some does get converted to CO2, but not all by a long shot.

[ReignOfError]

Tell the junkies it gets you high and they’ll smoke it all.

As soon as someone starts smoking it, the federal government will find unlimited funds to eradicate it. Hemp used to be a weed, you know.

[VOA]

Paul Harvey reported on Goats loving Kudzu...I don’t know...
a decade ago? This one goes to the old news file.

Folks can make fun of Paul Harvey due to the "affectations" of his
style as a news reader.

BUT, sometimes Paul Harvey (and his research staff) are on "ahead of
the curve" and virtually all of the MSM.

[Little_shoe]

Oh cool. Yeah I have never seen him, but my college roommate who is from Memphis was telling me all about him.