Tue, Jun-11-19, 17:03
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Plan: Keto (Atkins Induction)
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Location: Florida
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Next time they tell you don't eat beef because of the methane tell them this:
Next time they tell you don't eat beef because of the methane tell them this:
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People tend to equate methane with cow farts (though their burps are worse), but we may be pointing our fingers in all the wrong places, according to a new study. The production of ammonia for fertilizer may result in up to 100 times more emissions than has been previously estimated for this sector. And that alone is more than what the Environmental Protection Agency estimates all industries emit across the U.S.
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Link: from Cornell University and the Environmental Defense Fund
1) The veggie people tell us to quit eating beef because of the methane, and it turns out their fertilizer production puts 100 times more methane into the atmosphere than cow farts and burps. And the study didn't mention the CO2 needed to run the plants to make fertilizer.
2) As long as the beef is 100% grass-fed and not sent to a feed lot, it can exist on the grasslands with nothing but what mother nature provides. If you try to farm those nutrient poor prairies, you need to add tons of water (our most precious resource), fertilizers, herbicides, and till it with gas guzzling farm equipment.
So it turns out grazing beef on grasslands is much kinder to our climate than growing tomatoes or corn.
So the next time someone tells you to have meatless Monday to help the environment, point out that they are mistaken, beef is kinder to the environment than fertilizing veggies.
But if you buy corn fed beef, you are defeating all of that.
Bob
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