Al Gore and liberal Dems have been blaming global warming on George Bush and Republicans. But now we know that this is all bull. According to the U.N.’s “Livestock’s Long Shadow” report, the world’s big cattle herds give off more bad greenhouse gases that raise climate heat than all the “cars, planes and other forms of transport put together.”
The cause: bovine belching and flatulence. Read about it here.
However, I am sure that the big bad Republican drug companies are now in gear trying to find a bovine anti-gas solution.
Dan England’s posts can also be found at Getting Elected Blogline and and Townhall. Dan’s website is GettingElected.com and he is the author of So You Want to Run for Political Office and Welcome to the Real Corporate World.
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Follow-up comment rss or Leave a TrackbackLast I checked, Al Gore wasn’t blaming global warming on George Bush and the Republicans. You’ve obviously missed his point. It’s the emission of GHGs into the atmosphere that is causing global warming. It ends up that every human being who burns fossil fuels is responsible for the global increase of GHGs, not just a group of people who have a certain set of political beliefs. It isn’t a political thing, dispite what so many people seem to want to believe (for reasons unknown to me). It’s hard to believe that the Democrats have some kind of political ploy that revolves around wanting people to turn off lights they are not using and not driving so much. But maybe their scheme is just so sophisticated that I’ve just missed it.
And as for the methane produced by cattle. You make it seem as if that is not our fault. It is true that cattle is responsible for a huge amount of GHGs released into the atmosphere, but why are there so many cattle? It’s because people must eat their steak and hamburgers. But I can totally see how stuffing our faces full of a meat we all know is actually not good for us is worth all the environmental damage raising cattle is responsible for. I’m not sure how you can think that realizing the cattle we raise for food is responsible for a huge amount of GHGs some how not only makes global warming not our problem, but makes Al Gore and the whole Democratic party stupid.
there are about 1.5 billion in the world, and about 2 cows for every 5 people in the U.S. The impact of all these cows is estimated to double by 2050, which should make it a priority for governments and people to adopt solutions to lower the greenhouse effects of the meat industry.
The best thing you can do in my opinion is to simply eat less meat. Many commit to a vegetarian or vegan diet knowing that already that cattle herds have been the souce of many pollutive and harmful gasses and effects for a long time. There are also ways that some farmers are trying to catch the methane from the belching and manure, but these are costly, and do not address the main source of most of this methane…LOTS OF COWS
If we eat less beef, farmers will have less of an incentive to raise more cows for meat.
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