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Anonymous #7
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Re: OBAMA IS SCREWING AMERICA IN THE BUTT [Re: Anonymous #6]
#10522985 - 06/17/09 10:47 AM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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Anonymous #6 said: Animals fart. end of story.
Not really.
Mass-farmed animals raised in profit-focused conditions are fed CRAP.
The food they eat is determining the methane release.
The foods these animals are fed are chosen to provide peak profit-attainment efficiency, without regard for the health of the animal or the planet.
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Wiki:
Ruminant animals are those that have a rumen. A rumen is a special stomach found in cows, sheep, and water buffalo that enables them to eat tough plants and grains that monogastric animals, such as humans, dogs, and cats, cannot digest.
Enteric fermentation occurs when methane (CH4) is produced in the rumen as microbial fermentation takes place. Over 200 species of microorganisms are present in the rumen, although only about 10% of these play an important role in digestion. Most of the CH4 byproduct is belched by the animal, however, a small percentage of CH4 is also produced in the large intestine and passed out as gas.
In Australia ruminant animals account for over half of their green house gas contribution from methane.[1] Australia has implemented a voluntary immunization program for cattle in order to help reduce flatulence-produced CH4.
By feeding these animals the most profit-friendly foods (aka, plants and grains that are not even considered food to a monogastric creature, which have no demand outside of the livestock industry) these companies are choosing to contribute to the unnecessary production of mass amounts of methane produced by the animal as a means of coping with a very low-nutrition food source.
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Anonymous #7
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Re: OBAMA IS SCREWING AMERICA IN THE BUTT [Re: Anonymous #2]
#10523394 - 06/17/09 12:34 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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You make so little sense, I can almost put a name to your persona... hmmm...
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Anonymous #7
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Re: OBAMA IS SCREWING AMERICA IN THE BUTT [Re: Anonymous #6]
#10547258 - 06/21/09 12:20 PM (14 years, 7 months ago) |
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Anonymous #6 said: I don't see the point in comparing ruminant to monogastric. We evolved differently. because we eat different foods we have different digestive systems.
The comparison works because a ruminant animal ALSO has the stomach of a monogastric animal. The rumen is IN ADDITION. What this means is that they can still digest most of the foods a monogastric animal can, but WITHOUT producing massive amounts of methane because the rumen is not actively needed.
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Also:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090621/ap_on_re_us/us_burpless_cows
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