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To: GraceG
I have no issues with them working with the bacteria inside cows guts to help reduce the CO2 that they pump out.

I sure do!

Cows don't MAKE carbon. They don't eat fossil fuels. They eat plant matter that uses atmospheric Carbon (CO_2) to grow. One cow, a million cows, it makes no difference because the carbon budget is a wash.

Now there idiots want to mess with cows' innards. They just want control of your food.

19 posted on 06/30/2011 1:00:34 PM PDT by Poincare (Reality is not a fool.)
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To: Poincare

[ I sure do!

Cows don’t MAKE carbon. They don’t eat fossil fuels. They eat plant matter that uses atmospheric Carbon (CO_2) to grow. One cow, a million cows, it makes no difference because the carbon budget is a wash.

Now there idiots want to mess with cows’ innards. They just want control of your food. ]

I would laugh if the new microbes they want to introduce into the cows would make them more productive and thus raise the amount of cows you could raise per acre. I would laugh and laugh and laugh because it would further work to erode their Malthusian fallacy about needing less people on the earth and the “unsustainable livestock” view they always whine about.


20 posted on 06/30/2011 1:44:19 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Poincare

[ Cows don’t MAKE carbon. They don’t eat fossil fuels. They eat plant matter that uses atmospheric Carbon (CO_2) to grow. One cow, a million cows, it makes no difference because the carbon budget is a wash.

Now there idiots want to mess with cows’ innards. They just want control of your food. ]

Forgot to add that on the issue of the carbon cycle there is ample evidence that the amount of carbon on earth has been in decline of over the last 40 million years and that if we add more carbon to the system the plants will literally EXPLODE in growth rates. You see the process of the earth have been too efficient in sequestering carbon versus the things adding carbon to the biosphere like volcanoes. So we really need either more SUVs of More Volcanoes, I f my neighbor got a volcano I would be seriously angry, do you know how hard it is to get lava out of lawn....? SUVs are downright benign compared to volcanoes.


21 posted on 06/30/2011 1:48:18 PM PDT by GraceG
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