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Sheep flatulence inoculation developed
Telegraph ^ | 6/5/08 | Peter Allen in Paris

Posted on 06/05/2008 8:06:31 AM PDT by Keli Kilohana

New Zealand scientists claim to have developed a "flatulence inoculation" aimed at cutting down on the massive amount of methane produced by its sheep and cows.

Such animals are believed to be responsible for more than half of the country's greenhouse gases, causing huge environmental problems.

But Phil Goff, New Zealand's trade minister, told an Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) in Paris yesterday that a solution was in sight.

"Our agricultural research organisation just last week was able to map the genome ... that causes methane in ruminant animals and we believe we can vaccinate against" flatulent emissions, Mr Goff said.

(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Australia/New Zealand; Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: agw; cows; fart; flatulence; freepun; globalwarming; methane; pullmyfinger
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Inoculate?? Why not used the patented Hagedorn "Flammable Air Retaining Tent" (c) to gather all of this free methane? The pyramidal tent fits over the cow (there are models for sheep, as well) and there is a sealed portal to allow the cow's head to stick out the side. The bottom is open to allow for perambulation. Gases could be collected on a regular basis with a collection truck--or each cow could have a vacuum line attached to the top of their FART tent to constantly gather the goldmine of gas. Collected gases could then be used to fire steam electric generators!
1 posted on 06/05/2008 8:06:32 AM PDT by Keli Kilohana
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To: Keli Kilohana

Leave it to human ingenuity to save mankind.

Good grief.....


2 posted on 06/05/2008 8:08:52 AM PDT by EEDUDE
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To: Keli Kilohana; Allegra; ErnBatavia

I’m really hoping this can spread to the human population...


3 posted on 06/05/2008 8:09:18 AM PDT by wazoo1031
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To: Keli Kilohana

Inoculate? Against something a mammalian body is supposed to do?


4 posted on 06/05/2008 8:10:26 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny
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To: Keli Kilohana

When you honestly start claiming that sheep—which have been raised by humanity for time immemorium—are causing the earth to heat and somehow responsible for destroying life as we know it...

...you’d think you’d realize you were absolute full of it and barking up the wrong tree. But such is the mindless push of the global warming lemmings.


5 posted on 06/05/2008 8:11:08 AM PDT by CaspersGh0sts
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To: Keli Kilohana
Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any gas?
Yes, sir, yes, sir, right in my <DELETED>
6 posted on 06/05/2008 8:11:51 AM PDT by thulldud (Congress does not want answers. They want scapegoats. (andy58-in-nh))
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To: Keli Kilohana

What happens to an animal that can’t fart? I hate to think. Not a pretty picture.

Quick, somebody alert PETA to this madness.


7 posted on 06/05/2008 8:12:26 AM PDT by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Keli Kilohana

Why not ‘capture’ all that gas and become energy independent?


8 posted on 06/05/2008 8:12:26 AM PDT by AU72
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To: Keli Kilohana; Owl_Eagle; Sam's Army; Lazamataz; Darksheare; pissant; najida; r-q-tek86; blackie; ..
OK, this may be a first...

Animal Flatulence, PING!!

9 posted on 06/05/2008 8:14:09 AM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick (Some days it is not worth chewing through the restraints.)
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To: CaspersGh0sts

I wonder how damaging those giant buffalo herds were in the past!
It’s amazing anyone survived!


10 posted on 06/05/2008 8:14:43 AM PDT by The Toll
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To: The Toll
"...huge environmental problems."
Name one.
11 posted on 06/05/2008 8:16:06 AM PDT by Eric in the Ozarks
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To: Keli Kilohana

A sure candidate for the Nobel prize.


12 posted on 06/05/2008 8:17:28 AM PDT by I-ambush
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To: AU72

“Why not ‘capture’ all that gas and become energy independent?”

The most abundant known reserve of flatulence on the planet resides in Tennessee and his name is Al Gore...so I suggest they ‘capture’ that gas in a bag first and

“LEAVE THE SHEEP ALONE”

LOL


13 posted on 06/05/2008 8:17:47 AM PDT by penelopesire ("The only CHANGE you will get with the Democrats is the CHANGE left in your pocket")
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To: Keli Kilohana
Such animals are believed to be responsible for more than half of the country's greenhouse gases, causing huge environmental problems.

New Zealand just may be the most beautiful natural place in the world. That said, what are these "huge environmental problems" that the sheep are causing there? Where are they? What parts of NZ?

What balderdash!

14 posted on 06/05/2008 8:20:26 AM PDT by Flycatcher (Strong copy for a strong America)
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To: Keli Kilohana

The easiest job in the world today has be one of Jay Leno’s joke writers. Just open a paper and copy down a few headlines.


15 posted on 06/05/2008 8:22:03 AM PDT by AU72
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To: wazoo1031

Muzzy terrorist already have a way of plugging the hole :)


16 posted on 06/05/2008 8:22:59 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Keli Kilohana

17 posted on 06/05/2008 8:24:02 AM PDT by LIConFem (Thompson. Lifetime ACU Rating: 86 -- Hunter Lifetime ACU Rating: 92 (any combo will do, fellas))
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To: AU72

This is excerpted from The Broker, http://thebrokeronline.eu/en/articles/driving_on_organic_waste

“While biogas – methane – can be used as fuel for cars (see box Bioethanol, biodiesel and biogas) it is generally used to generate electricity. In the Netherlands, some farmers already ferment animal dung and use the methane released in the process to heat their cattle sheds. Orgaworld, a company in Lelystad, is using biogas from organic waste to generate ‘green’ electricity, and composts the fermented residue.5 In Nepal, the Biogas Sector Partnership, an NGO, is promoting the use of this process. Over 150,000 Nepalese households now have a biogas plant – an airtight container that can digest half a cubic metre of buffalo dung. The methane released is used for cooking and in gas lamps, and the residue is returned to the fields”


18 posted on 06/05/2008 8:24:35 AM PDT by popdonnelly (Does Obama know ANYONE who likes America, capitalism, or white people?)
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To: Keli Kilohana

Now we know what propulsion system Harold was going to use!

*** From the first Monty Python’s Flying Circus episode ever!!! ***

Flying Sheep

(A tourist approaches a shepherd. The sounds of sheep and the outdoors are heard.)

Tourist: Good afternoon.
Shephrd: Eh, ‘tis that.
Tourist: You here on holiday?
Shephrd: Nope, I live ‘ere.
Tourist: Oh, good for you. Uh...those ARE sheep aren’t they?
Shephrd: Yeh.
Tourist: Hmm, thought they were. Only, what are they doing up in the trees?
Shephrd: A fair question and one that in recent weeks ‘as been much on my mind. It’s my considered opinion that they’re nestin’.
Tourist: Nesting?
Shephrd: Aye.
Tourist: Like birds?
Shephrd: Exactly. It’s my belief that these sheep are laborin’ under the misapprehension that they’re birds. Observe their be’avior. Take for a start the sheeps’ tendency to ‘op about the field on their ‘ind legs. Now witness their attempts to fly from tree to tree. Notice that they do not so much fly as...plummet.
Tourist: Yes, but why do they think they’re birds?
Shephrd: Another fair question. One thing is for sure, the sheep is not a creature of the air. They have enormous difficulty in the comparatively simple act of perchin’.
Trouble is, sheep are very dim. Once they get an idea in their ‘eads, there’s no shiftin’ it.
Tourist: But where did they get the idea?
Shephrd: From Harold. He’s that most dangerous of creatures, a clever sheep. ‘e’s realized that a sheep’s life consists of standin’ around for a few months and then bein’ eaten. And that’s a depressing prospect for an ambitious sheep.
Tourist: Well why don’t just remove Harold?
Shephrd: Because of the enormous commercial possibilities if ‘e succeeds.


19 posted on 06/05/2008 8:25:16 AM PDT by ScreamingGreenAlienGorilla (The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. Ecc. 10:2)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks

......Name one......

How about beer?

Beer drinkers should be required each year to purchase carbon credits to offset the atmospheric carbonation from each and every beer they drink.

To expand this thought, think carbonated beverages. Carbon is the root descriptive. Each and every Coke or Pepsi or Dew emits a substantial amount of atmospheric carbon. Some is direct as fizz and some is emitted as burps or belches. Every consumer of carbonated soft drinks must be required to purchase an annual carbon credit for the amount of estimated consumption. Any unused credits can be carried over or redemmed at the end of the year.

The severe magnitude of the carbon based beverage fizz has escaped notice but in the interest of fairness and carboniferous diversity, must be addressed. McCain being tied closely to the beer industry can be excused from his opposition, but there must be a pronouncement from Obama on his position on beer carbon emissions.


20 posted on 06/05/2008 8:26:23 AM PDT by bert (K.E. N.P. +12 . The Bitcons will elect a Democrat by default)
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