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Silence the Cows and Save the Planet
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| 20 mar 2011
| Jeffrey Kluger
Posted on 04/05/2011 10:42:33 AM PDT by mandaladon
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We're going bankrupt and liberals are worried about farting cows?
To: mandaladon
Do they make Beano in cow size?
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posted on
04/05/2011 10:45:23 AM PDT
by
ArmstedFragg
(hoaxy dopey changey)
To: mandaladon
I worry more about farting liberals. How much methane do they produce in a day??
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posted on
04/05/2011 10:47:07 AM PDT
by
Russ
(Repeal the 17th amendment)
To: mandaladon
Since nobody is going to re-engineer the ruminant digestive tract anytime soon, the solutions are limited: stop eating meat or at least eat other kinds. (A 2010 study from the Science and Environment section of the Library of the U.K.'s House of Commons reported that a pair of Australian biologists have recommended eating marsupials instead of livestock, since kangaroos and their kin produce almost no methane when they digest.) But there's one more answer too: reformulate the diet of the animals themselves. If you change what goes in, you should be able to change what comes out....libs will soon propose a tax on cow fart emissions or something similarly insane.
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posted on
04/05/2011 10:47:43 AM PDT
by
mandaladon
(PalinGenesis)
To: mandaladon
I really want to swear loudly and profusely right now.
STOP FEEDING THEM CORN! COWS WERE NOT MEANT TO EAT CORN!
Cows eat grass whether its alive or dead. If they do that they will not fart.
THIS IS SO SIMPLE EVEN A TWO YEAR OLD CAN FIGURE IT OUT!
Thank you, I feel better now.
To: mandaladon
If the worst thing in the world these morons had to worry about were farting cows, they could consider themselves very, very lucky.
To: mandaladon
These people are truly insane.
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posted on
04/05/2011 10:49:06 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
To: steelyourfaith
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posted on
04/05/2011 10:50:33 AM PDT
by
Army Air Corps
(Four fried chickens and a coke)
To: mandaladon
Imagine the size of dinosaur farts...now we have the answer why they died out. The dinosaurs were victims of their own flatulence which caused fatal climate change.
w To save the planet from a similar fate, we need a massive new government program to subsidize Beano for livestock herds and fund it with a flatulence tax on beans, sauerkraut, cauliflower, cabbage and other gas producing foods.
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posted on
04/05/2011 10:51:39 AM PDT
by
The Great RJ
(The Bill of Rights: Another bill members of Congress haven't read.)
To: mandaladon
So, we all stop eating meat, and so that we can get all the protein we need, we start eating beans and rice. Then, instead of livestock creating greenhouse gases.......
To: mandaladon
Where is this going to end?
To: mandaladon
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posted on
04/05/2011 10:54:31 AM PDT
by
Brad from Tennessee
(A politician can't give you anything he hasn't first stolen from you.)
To: mandaladon
This is irrational.
I wonder if the author wears leather shoes?
Or considered that the silage making process generates gasses?
Or reflected upon the population of wild herbivores on earth?
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posted on
04/05/2011 10:55:37 AM PDT
by
Nepeta
To: mandaladon
In 2010, the U.N. proposed a global levy on livestock’s methane emissions, a measure that was promptly and unavoidably dubbed a fart tax in the press. A similar surcharge was proposed in the U.K. three years earlier, and farmers howled though it’s arguable that this is one case in which the tax collector would dread an audit even more than the taxpayer.
Read more: http://ecocentric.blogs.time.com/2011/03/30/silence-the-cows-and-save-the-planet/#ixzz1IfiuNQSg
All insanity starts at the U.N.
All those third world cattle raisers are in for a shock.
But the obvious answer is that the British no longer want to be taken serious on ANY issue.
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posted on
04/05/2011 10:56:17 AM PDT
by
Marty62
(Marty60)
To: Russ
...Leave cows alone!
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posted on
04/05/2011 10:56:24 AM PDT
by
mandaladon
(PalinGenesis)
To: Peter from Rutland
But...corn is a form of grass.
To: GeronL
“These people are truly insane.”
Exactly!
To: Nepeta
....I bet these cows are very damaging to our environment!!!
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posted on
04/05/2011 11:04:57 AM PDT
by
mandaladon
(PalinGenesis)
To: Marty62
All insanity starts at the U.N....I would say it starts in the liberals mind.
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posted on
04/05/2011 11:08:09 AM PDT
by
mandaladon
(PalinGenesis)
To: therightliveswithus
Where is this going to end? This too will be resolved during the next revolution.
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posted on
04/05/2011 11:16:32 AM PDT
by
unixfox
(Abolish Slavery, Repeal The 16th Amendment!)
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