RE: Atheist vegans?
July 31, 2012 at 9:24 pm
(This post was last modified: July 31, 2012 at 9:28 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 31, 2012 at 8:16 pm)padraic Wrote:Quote:What do cows,and pigs produce?
Both produce massive amounts of methane.
Do I care? Of course,but not enough to stop eating meat. Would I still eat meat if I had to kill the animal myself? Of course, I'm a human being,and we are omnivores and predators.
Quote:Agriculture is responsible for an estimated 14 percent of the world's greenhouse gases. A significant portion of these emissions come from methane, which, in terms of its contribution to global warming, is 23 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. The U.S. Food and Agriculture Organization says that agricultural methane output could increase by 60 percent by 2030 [Source: Times Online]. The world's 1.5 billion cows and billions of other grazing animals emit dozens of polluting gases, including lots of methane. Two-thirds of all ammonia comes from cows
http://science.howstuffworks.com/environ...ne-cow.htm
A pig produces over 600 pounds of methane a day,
Decomposing plant matter also produces methane -which, case in point, is where the methane the cows and pigs are "producing" comes from (in truth they're processing, not producing). Given that the portion of the plant that you consume is usually less than 10% (and not so for livestock, they eat root shoot seed and flower) the methane is a byproduct of either, and less wasteful when the animal is fed plant matter than when human beings are. Ammonia is a potent and valuable source of ammonium nitrite and nitrate, ala nitrogen, the largest nutrient requirement for commercial agricultural production (and of course, the largest contributor -aside from oil- to much of the damage cause by agriculture due to toxicity in some cases, and blooms or other effects in others). It's also the basis of the nitrogen cycle -a cycle which early all life on earth depends upon-. Thankfully, we are better at extracting this nitrogen than the cycles of nature can hope to be, and so our processed fertilizers go farther with less (as opposed to dumping manure, filled with piss, that's why bull manure is worthless -his dangle points away from his pooper- on our crops).
It's a tangled web.
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