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Global warming, cows and how to cut down hot air



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Published Date: 09 August 2008
By DOROTHY H CRAWFORD
THE sight of cows lazily grazing in a sunny field is for most of us an idyllic country scene which is quintessentially British. And we are rightfully proud of British dairy products, unquestioningly consuming milk, cheese and yoghurt as part of our daily diet. But behind the farm gate lurks a dark secret – the complex digestion system of cattle produces methane gas, which is a serious contributor to global warming.
Certain antibiotics can ease the problem but since the EU banned their use in healthy cattle in 2006 the race is on to find other ways of reducing the direct impact of cows' digestion on our planet.

Cattle have perfected the process of extracting ...



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1

truthsleuth,

09/08/2008 00:25:30
forgot
We then would truly have Wind Farms.
2

nabodican,

Rural Scotland 09/08/2008 07:21:16
Interesting article - nothing to with global warming though.
3

Unimpressed one,

09/08/2008 10:20:50
More lunacy to 'tackle climate change'. Still that's another herd of academics got their funding secured for some time to come based on the Great Scam.
4

Neil,

Glasgow 09/08/2008 12:06:58
The theory is that ruminants farting, which never happend before humans domesticated them, is a very small proportion of the gasses which cause the massive warming we are all, allegedly, currently suffering from.

As a theory it has more holes in it than the once popular theory that we must regularly sacrifice sheep to Marduk to prevent flooding.
5

Beth Boyle,

NY 10/08/2008 05:30:40
Before we ban bovine beauty from the country side we should get rid of all lawn mowers, recreational boats and race cars! Honestly this is so silly is sounds like a spoof! Pure madness this is. Maybe we should cull a few humans off the planet who have no common sense and leave the cows alone!
6

James F,

East Ayr 10/08/2008 11:07:27
It is a silly article - but not for any of the reasons suggested above. According to the UNFAO, livestock contribute 18% to global greenhouse gas emissions - so, as moral individuals, we obviously should stop killing animals for food to reduce this to 0% then we can worry about the other 82% from industry, housing, transport etc.

The article is silly because it is scientifically and morally disingenuous. Dorothy suggests that "we are rightfully proud of British dairy products, unquestioningly consuming milk, cheese and yoghurt as part of our daily diet." I don't share this pride; what is there to be proud about in killing animals for pleasure?

That's the problem with Dorothy: she doesn't question the ethics of the Dairy Industry because she's in a senior position of authority within the scientific establishment and she hasn't got the guts to face the fact that dairy, meat - and eggs for that matter - are an irrelevance to our human dietary needs. We can source all the food we need from plants without needlessly killing animals. Dorothy’s analysis lacks rigour.

Dorothy's article is a silly article because it's based on a false premise. That's bad science and it's bad morality too.
7

Climate change is a fraud,

18/08/2008 16:56:45
No more of this nonsense. Man made cimate change (aka global warming and global cooling) is made up rubbish.

 

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