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Google Goes Green With Goats (as lawn mowers);PeTA objects
MyFOXDC.COM ^ | 5/4/09 | FRANK CARNEVALE

Posted on 05/04/2009 10:25:01 AM PDT by llevrok

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To: rwfromkansas

Let’s also take into account the amount of C02 dumped into the atomosphere from trucking them in! All they had to do was buy some push mowers, have the employees mow the grass on their lunch break or hire someone to do it if they are that concerned with it. I always find it funny that morons like these end up polluting more in order to try and cut back back on pollution.

JFC people...


21 posted on 05/04/2009 10:37:55 AM PDT by cups
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To: kingu

“Those poor goats might be exposed to toxic hazards as a greedy corporation tries to abuse their rights as animals and keep them as slaves to serve their corporate masters!”

Ain’t that the truth. Go over to the goats and ask them what their working conditions are like, and they respond, “Baa-a-ad. Baa-ah-ad.”

Up the Goat Ungulate Liberation Front!


22 posted on 05/04/2009 10:39:19 AM PDT by No Truce With Kings (The opinions expressed are mine! Mine! MINE! All Mine!)
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To: llevrok

Goats are browsers.

Sheep are grazers as are cattle.

Goats are inefficient as lawn mowers.

My lawn is a 4’ pasture.

I asked the boss to bring one one of his steers (read steak etc on-the-hoof) down to chomp on it, but none of them are rope trained.


23 posted on 05/04/2009 10:39:21 AM PDT by Syncro
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To: cups

I use one of those as I’d rather get my exercise outdoors mowing my lawn than spending the time inside a sweaty gym.


24 posted on 05/04/2009 10:41:44 AM PDT by posterchild (Endowed by my Creator with certain unalienable rights.)
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To: llevrok

Goats suck at lawn mowing, they are browsers. You need sheep for grazing lawns.


25 posted on 05/04/2009 10:41:50 AM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: smith288

Google is playing head games with Cubbies fans I see.


26 posted on 05/04/2009 10:41:58 AM PDT by rod1
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To: cups

How do you get a goat to push that?


27 posted on 05/04/2009 10:42:04 AM PDT by SampleMan (Socialism enslaves you & kills your soul.)
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To: llevrok

When will the Service Employees Union start pushing card check for the goats?


28 posted on 05/04/2009 10:43:02 AM PDT by earlJam
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To: w1andsodidwe
Just to be practical - who is picking up after them?

Goats leave pellets similar to deer. They don't generally require any cleanup. It's not like cow patties. I turn my goats into my yard on occasion but they tend to like to scratch themselves on the house so I don't make a constant habit of it.

29 posted on 05/04/2009 10:43:47 AM PDT by Glock19C
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To: smith288
Goats have lived in pastors for thousands of years without the need of peta bafoons protecting them...

Most pastors do not have any goats in them.

99.44% goat free pastors. (actually I have no idea if they are goat free, I just googled for "pastors" to get an image).

30 posted on 05/04/2009 10:43:54 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (No free man bows to a foreign king.)
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To: SampleMan
Silly, they don't push that.

You use a small harness and have them pull it.

31 posted on 05/04/2009 10:45:50 AM PDT by going hot (Happiness is a Momma Deuce)
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To: llevrok

An advantage of using a lawnmower is that you can walk or play on your lawn without stepping in piles of cr@p every 20 ft.


32 posted on 05/04/2009 10:52:20 AM PDT by Hacklehead (Liberalism is the art of taking what works, breaking it, and then blaming conservatives.)
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To: KarlInOhio

LOL. I don’t know where folks come up with these Ms. Spellings.

Goat vote!
Goat vote!
Goat vote!


33 posted on 05/04/2009 10:54:05 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Mr. Bernanke, have you started working on your book about the second GREATER depression?")
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To: llevrok

SanFran has been using goats to clean up grass and weeds for years - nothing new here.


34 posted on 05/04/2009 10:54:09 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: KarlInOhio
Most pastors do not have any goats in them.

Good thing im not catholic! LOL

35 posted on 05/04/2009 10:54:17 AM PDT by smith288 (Americans suffer from Stockholm Syndrome with the government)
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To: llevrok
Why would goat farts and piles be preferable to lawn mower exhaust.

My father in law tried this years ago. The goat ate in patches right down to the dirt. Not the desired outcome.

36 posted on 05/04/2009 10:58:34 AM PDT by Poison Pill (Given enough time, everything becomes illegal.)
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To: llevrok

You’d think Kim Jong Il would at least plant some grass seed, so his populace would have something to graze on....cheap enough eats; shouldn’t infringe much on his nuclear wishlist.


37 posted on 05/04/2009 10:59:10 AM PDT by ErnBatavia (Impeach now!)
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To: Glock19C
Are you telling me that these nerds working at Google will not mind walking or picnicking on the grass with a few turds surrounding them?
38 posted on 05/04/2009 11:00:07 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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To: posterchild

I used to use one as well, I actually didn’t mind it because it got me outside and some exercise.


39 posted on 05/04/2009 11:00:42 AM PDT by cups
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To: Redbob
Which, as it turns out, helps in the formation of ozone...

But we have been told that cows passing gas are destroying the atmosphere. And since the science is settled, how dare you suggest something different? /sarcasm off

40 posted on 05/04/2009 11:02:09 AM PDT by w1andsodidwe (Jimmy Carter(the Godfather of Terror) allowed radical Islam to get a foothold in Iran.)
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