No to plans for ‘meat tax’
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https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/polit...n-green-agenda/ |
Good for them! Bangers are safe! I love that this is rather tongue-in-cheek so that it mirrors what a totally absurd idea it was.
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I really don't get why natural emissions are targeted. Think about it. Grass eaters are simply turning grass into CO2 and water a little quicker than the bacteria and fungi that would do it anyway when the grass dies, as it will. Same with burning wood naturally. The wood will decompose into CO2, ash and water anyway. Either the bacteria and fungi use it up, or we do. No difference.
The only way to stop it is to carbon sink it, and do we really want to do that? Isn't it better to produce good soil from our dead plants, than to bury them far underground where decomposition can't get them, and they turn into rocks? And believe me, the best soil is produced from the back end of grazers! And worms! Go after fossil fuel use I figure, rather than living things. And I believe we are doing that, if slowly. |
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Which is exactly why we are being pushed into meatless existence through manufactured food with a high markup and no nutritional value... |
Right. I burn wood. Cut from my own woods...... the volume of trees consumes more carbon than released.
Grazing animals are a better use of land than when veggies are grown: till, lay down ploy tubing for irrigation, lay down plastic, set in plants and picking which requires a pass of a gas guzzling ( or diesel) tractor or planter or truck for each process........ Someone needs to find the fuel usage of big farming. Cattle in feedlot have not spent whole life in that area of management. Usually cattle are raised on grass, perhaps supplemented with grains, then finished on hay and a higher percentage of grains. We tend to focus on huge operations and forget many animals are raised by small operations. Perhaps large greenhouse production is worth examining for fuel emissions as it maybe a smaller footprint than cereal production. |
Meat animals are actually kinder to the environment than veggies. Stop the propaganda by the corporate farmers and veggie folks.
First of all, according to a study by Cornell University and the Environmental Protection Agency, the fertilizer industry emits more greenhouse methane than all the cow burps and farts on the planet combined. Quote:
Cows graze on grassland and need nothing other than what mother nature provides. Growing crops on grassland is difficult. To do that you need tons of fertilizers, herbicides, pesticides, and our most precocious resource, fresh water. So if you eat 100% grass fed beef, you are doing the atmosphere a favor. If you eat grain 'finished' beef, the corn grown to feed the cows on the feed lot is not environmentally friendly. It's not the beef it's the corn. And all the corn does is fatten the beef up so they get more money when they sell the cow. If you tell a lie often enough, people will believe it. And big agriculture and the vegan lobby have been telling this lie way too often. It's up to us to set them straight whenever and wherever we can or they will take our meat away from us, and kill the atmosphere while they are doing it. Speak out! |
I also was thinking about how trees only have a canopy of green, whereas a field of grain has just as much green covering the land...just not separated from the ground by trunks. And I have seen a fully grown field of rapeseed or canola. That is a six foot thickly woven dense mat of nitrogen fixing green stuff, which is used to produce precious oil, some of which can substitute for fossil fuels in the way of biodiesel or can be manufactured into plastics or lubricants.
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