Comments on: Christopher Weber finds environmental cost high for beef

By: Peter

Peter — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 09:18:30 +0000

No, I think they’re.

By: Orion

Orion — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:55:45 +0000

Now there blaming cows for global warming?

By: Robb Ess

Robb Ess — Sun, 19 Oct 2008 00:54:05 +0000

cminch, I couldn’t reproduce what happened to you myself, but I think the formatting was due to “citation”. Note the difference in the type of your post, like this:
Watch the change when I put double question marks before & after “the change”. I think y’all had question marks that got the autobot formatter confused. I think this is what you wanted:

â€”-cow or chicken or pig or goat or ?? â€”has anyone ever heard of composting, burning methane for heat and electric??

Yes?
Anyways, a local factory egg farm is “composting” the fecal matter from their warehoused chickens to produce methane and using it to create electricity for the farm. Pretty eco, to me.

By: cmincb

cmincb — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:10:31 +0000

why does your site leave the question marks off of the end of my former comments on Preview and Submit ???? I couldn’t get it to change.

By: cmincb

cmincb — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 13:04:51 +0000

SOOOOOO!!!! since when are chickens so great?? filthy little “animals” all crammed together and putting out vast quantities of fecal matter—-cow or chicken or pig or goat or /?—has anyone ever heard of composting, burning methane for heat and electric

By: a p garcia

a p garcia — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 11:48:34 +0000

Also eat less beans.

By: Deborah Byrd

Deborah Byrd — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 06:55:00 +0000

Amanda, I agree with you … and I’m someone who, if I had to have a last meal, would choose a hamburger. We are carnivores. And yet it’s possible to consciously choose to eat less beef if that’s what’s best for individual health, or the health of the planet … or our fellow humans. The trick is … to become conscious.

By: amanda wynn

amanda wynn — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 00:57:24 +0000

To those who care:
There is nothing wrong w/ cutting back on eating cow. This article explained why it was wise to do so for the environment but it’s also better for your health to not eat ground beef or whatever part of the animal. Yes, we are carnivores, but I’m pretty sure this article is about the fast food craze that we Americans can all cry quilty of. Wouldn’t it be sweet if we could collectively boy-cot all of the McDonald’s and live clean,happy,healthy lives?

By: Benjamin Napier

Benjamin Napier — Thu, 05 Jun 2008 10:52:33 +0000

I think someone might try checking some facts. Birds are much less efficient converters of plant protein to animal protein than are ruminants. Also, the amount of methane produced by commercial beef operation is dwarfed by that leaking out of the fissures in the earth’s crust and that produced by the lowly termite.

For efficient conversion of plant protein to animal protein, we might consider goats, deer and sheep. They can eat extremely low quality forage and use much less water. Pigs are alos fairly efficient, however, lacking the rumen, they must have higher quality feed that includes high amounts of lysine. an amino acid that can be produced in the rumen, but not in the digestive tract of swine, nor of humans. Lysine is known as an essential amino acid for the species homo-sapiens.

By: Scottw

Scottw — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:03:41 +0000

Obama is trying to shove American Beef down Japanese mouths.
So I guess he has not gotten the message either?

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20080518a5.html

Isn’t wonderful, we sit around and fuss over cow farts !

Wake up people.