Posted on 09/29/2016 5:09:52 PM PDT by ssaftler
Legislation signed this month by Gov. Jerry Brown requires Californias dairy industry to answer for its contribution to global warming by making a 40 percent cut in methane emissions in coming years. The gas, which heats the atmosphere 20 times faster than carbon dioxide, comes from the butts and burps of bovines.
One U.N. report blames livestock, which has largely escaped climate regulation, for 14.5 percent of the planets heat-trapping gases, as much as planes, trains and automobiles combined.
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A new business opportunity - The person who can invent a catalytic converter for cow b**ts will make a fortune...:^)
They don’t realize, that unlike most products, fresh milk can’t be shipped from two or three states away!
I never even considered whether the big farms wanted to get rid of the small farms, I just saw it as out of control government. There is already a quota system in place that limits the amount of milk and dairy products a farm can sell. One of the local dairies that is right on the Canadian border has its own stores and does quite a cross border business was fined one time for selling too much milk.
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