Sunday, November 01, 2009

Forget Carbon Trading

Now there's a recommendation to do fart trading.

Study claims meat creates half of all greenhouse gases
"In a paper published by a respected US thinktank, the Worldwatch Institute, two World Bank environmental advisers claim that instead of 18 per cent of global emissions being caused by meat, the true figure is 51 per cent.

They claim that United Nation's figures have severely underestimated the greenhouse gases caused by tens of billions of cattle, sheep, pigs, poultry and other animals in three main areas: methane, land use and respiration."
I think we have two ways of dealing with this. One would be to follow the New Zealand lead and try to impose a fart tax or we could eat beans instead. Since the Kiwis hit a bit of a brick wall with their fart tax idea, I think maybe the beans idea would be the best option.

That means we have to cultivate more land, though. Get those tractors out of the sheds. Oh wait...they use fossil fuel. Okay. I guess we'll have to rely on bovine powered plows. Oh wait....weren't we trying to reduce the amount of methane gas...

I like beans, by the way. I've a lot of vegetarian cookbooks and there's some great recipes in them, but, ya know... there's that small problem that occurs a few hours after ingestion called flatulence, aka, methane. They also take a lot longer to cook than you're average T-bone steak.

You just can't win.

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