Killer cow emissions: Why isn't anyone raising a stink?

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  • jlew24asu
    jlew24asu Posts: 10,118
    godpt3 wrote:
    have a nice salad. Just watch out for the e.coli.

    I like salads. steak salads
  • gue_barium
    gue_barium Posts: 5,515
    I know in the American west much of the beef that is raised is more or less free range herefords. America imports copious amounts of beef from around the world.
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  • godpt3
    godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    gue_barium wrote:
    America imports copious amounts of beef from around the world.

    Yep. That's why the beef producers don't want you to know where your meat comes from. Country-of-origin labeling was in the 2002 farm bill, but industry lobbyists have continually managed to delay its implementation. The beef packing industry doesn't want you to know if your steak came from Argentina or not, since most consumers would automatically assume that their beef is "Made in the USA."
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  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    Ahnimus wrote:
    However, the oceans contribute much more CO2.

    How so? They're the biggest "carbon sink". In other words, they absorb immense amounts of CO2. Here's a link:

    http://www.environmentalsciences.homestead.com/carbonsinks.html
  • RolandTD20Kdrummer
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    Aren't the red meat links to cancer fairly substantial?
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  • Kel Varnsen
    Kel Varnsen Posts: 1,952
    MrSmith wrote:
    These problems are really just symptoms of human overpopulation.

    Until someone solves the problem of there being too many people on the planet, all of these problems are irrelevent.


    If only there was some way to warm up the entire world so that the cold northern parts could become more livable.
  • gabers
    gabers Posts: 2,787
    Kel Varnsen wrote:
    If only there was some way to warm up the entire world so that the cold northern parts could become more livable.

    Are you joking? Have you heard anything about global warming in the news? The "cold northern parts" will most likely see the most dramatic warming. Do a little research. Polar bears are running out of habitat.
  • Ahnimus
    Ahnimus Posts: 10,560
    gabers wrote:
    How so? They're the biggest "carbon sink". In other words, they absorb immense amounts of CO2. Here's a link:

    http://www.environmentalsciences.homestead.com/carbonsinks.html

    It's kind of like the bogs that release carbon when the temperature rises. As the temp rises the ocean evaporates more carbon. I'm pretty sure I read this on the EPA but I can't find it now, so discredit it.
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  • Truthmonger
    Truthmonger Posts: 559
    godpt3 wrote:
    The real question is, why isn't anybody working to do more population control in Africa? Not only do you reduce poverty and hunger, you also reduce the production of greenhouse gasses.

    The continent of Africa produces very little pollution given its population. Its places like N. America, Asia and Europe that are creating much of the pollution.
  • MahoganySouls
    MahoganySouls Posts: 357
    Don't forget the methane gas emitted from land fill dumps. As all the millions of tons of garbage we produce decomposes, it poisons the air we breathe.
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  • tybird
    tybird Posts: 17,388
    No one raising a stink because animal farts don't appear to have been a problem when there were a billion + American Bison, far larger number of deer species, megafaunal predators and more Passenger Pigeons flying around than there are total birds in North American today.

    I suspect that the carbon dioxide and monoxide creating by people smoking contributes more to global warming than cows farting.
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  • onelongsong
    onelongsong Posts: 3,517
    godpt3 wrote:
    Yep. That's why the beef producers don't want you to know where your meat comes from. Country-of-origin labeling was in the 2002 farm bill, but industry lobbyists have continually managed to delay its implementation. The beef packing industry doesn't want you to know if your steak came from Argentina or not, since most consumers would automatically assume that their beef is "Made in the USA."

    check out the animal idendification system. because of homeland security; you cannot take an animal to slaughter unless you can prove where that animal came from. it's the presidents way of keeping the food chain from being contaminated.

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