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COW FARTS ARE NOT GREEN!
Zarr Chasm Chronical[sic] ^
| 7/20/07
| Keli Kilohana
Posted on 07/20/2007 3:39:30 AM PDT by Keli Kilohana
Producing 2.2lb of beef generates as much greenhouse gas as driving a car non-stop for three hours, it was claimed yesterday.
That means that 2.2lb of beef is responsible for greenhouse gas emissions which have the same effect as the carbon dioxide released by an ordinary car travelling at 50 miles per hour for 155 miles, a journey lasting three hours. The amount of energy consumed would light a 100-watt bulb for 20 days.
Most of the greenhouse gas emissions are in the form of methane released from the animals' digestive systems, New Scientist magazine reported.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
TOPICS: Food; Miscellaneous; Pets/Animals; Politics
KEYWORDS: beef; cows; globalwarming
What if, as a carbon offset, I pay someone to eat endangered sea bass? Or, a Chinese man to eat cardboard filled dumplings?
To: Keli Kilohana
didn’t read the article - just have to respond to any thread with “Cow Farts” in the title......
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posted on
07/20/2007 3:43:32 AM PDT
by
WhiteGuy
(GOP Congress - 16,000 earmarks costing US $50 billion in 2006 - PAUL2008)
To: Keli Kilohana
Su Taylor, the press officer for the Vegetarian Society, told New Scientist: "Everybody is trying to come up with different ways to reduce carbon footprints, but one of the easiest things you can do is to stop eating meat."
The article says that more than two thirds of the energy used goes towards producing and transporting cattle feed. The answer then would be to starve cows, I suppose.
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posted on
07/20/2007 3:44:33 AM PDT
by
Jaysun
(Certified thread hijacker since 7-7-07 (by restornu and blu))
To: Keli Kilohana
Cow farts?
What Hillary made another speech yesterday?
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posted on
07/20/2007 3:45:26 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(The FairTax and the North American Union are mutually exclusive.)
To: ovrtaxt
Lord, I apologize for making jokes about Hillary’s farts... and be with the starving pygmies down in New Guinea.
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posted on
07/20/2007 3:46:14 AM PDT
by
ovrtaxt
(The FairTax and the North American Union are mutually exclusive.)
To: WhiteGuy
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posted on
07/20/2007 3:54:52 AM PDT
by
steve8714
("A man needs a maid", my ass.)
To: WhiteGuy
didn’t read the article - just have to respond to any thread with “Cow Farts” in the title......Ditto. My thought is that they might not look green from a distance, but if scientists would get up close and examine them when they first come out...
To: Keli Kilohana
Ferengi Senator Dennis Kucinich is vegan--look at where that got him!
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/news/state/17509810.htm
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posted on
07/20/2007 4:24:02 AM PDT
by
Keli Kilohana
(Editor, ZARR CHASM CHRONICAL [sic], Sore, WV)
To: ErnBatavia; wazoo1031
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posted on
07/20/2007 6:22:56 AM PDT
by
Allegra
(28)
To: Allegra
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posted on
07/20/2007 6:27:40 AM PDT
by
ErnBatavia
(...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
To: Keli Kilohana
I’ve stepped in some of those spring grass cow “farts”. Yes they are green...wet and slippery too.
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