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Originally Posted by The_Heretic
News Flash: Turns out no one has ever conducted a study to prove this and only just last Sunday did they announce the start of such study.
Also, it's not cow fart, but the methane coming out of the shit. The solution- which I've many times explained and you ran from, is that the manuer can be collected and stored in an enclosure to capture that methane which then runs all the internal combustion engines on the farm with no need to purchase fuel at all, thus useing cow shit to shake off the oil fix.
Q.E.D.
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Actually, that was addressed in the article which you obviously didn't even bother to read:
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The latter method has been adopted by several Vermont dairy farms and works well. Cow manure is stored in the digesters (huge tanks) at 100 degrees Fahrenheit and deprived of oxygen. That encourages the bacteria to break the manure down, releasing biogas that is 90 percent methane. This fuel is captured and burned in an engine to generate electricity. Unfortunately, the equipment is expensive—$200,000 to $1 million, depending on the size of the farm. Only 32 farms in the U.S. were using digesters at press time, so only a tiny amount of methane production has been mitigated in this way.
A Canadian study by Karin Wittinberg and Dinah Boadi of the University of Manitoba lists 20 separate ways to reduce greenhouse gas production from livestock. These include grinding and pelletizing food for confined animals to make it more fully digestible (a 20 to 40 percent reduction); grazing steers on high-quality alfalfa grass pastures (50 percent reduction); adding canola oil to feedlot rations (30 percent reduction); and separating animals by age group and phasing in food related to their growth stages (50 percent reduction). These are laudable solutions and should be implemented, but, absent legislation, they’re unlikely to be put in place.
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The university of Chicago and the united nations has done such studies. Also the union of concerned scientists has done studies. They post links to the studies in the article.
Plus why do you CONSTANTLY say that i ran from, didn't address, ducked and covered from statements that i've addressed probably hundreds of times with you? I absolutely did address it. Just because you didn't like my answer doesn't mean i ran from it or fearfully didn't address it.
Here I'll give you the answer again:
In order to get the factory farm or meat industry to adapt these improved practices you must impose upon them penalties for not addressing those practices. Simply stating how wonderful it would be if the meat industry did something is not going to change them one bit. A mass of people refusing to buy their products might. If all they did in Thelma was right pamphlets blacks would still be on the back of the bus. It was not buying the tickets that did the trick.
So far your continuing to eat meat and post on the message board has done NOTHING to solve the problem. My not eating meat and posting on the message board has saved acres of land, has reduced water waste, and has been far more humane to sentient beings.
Furthermore, cow manure was not the ONLY problem addressed in that article. I guess if i were, well, you, i'd accuse you of ducking, running, cowering in fear etc.