Meat Free Monday
8th January 2010 | Charles' Rants, Food
It’s hard enough getting up to feed the animals in the middle of a freeze, without listening to am ill-informed zealot spouting about cows killing our planet by farting. What this person on breakfast TV (I didn’t pause to write her name down) was asking for is a “meat free Monday” an idea that I agree with, we eat more meat than we need to. A classic case of right message, wrong reason. Ed Hammer wrote a very interesting article on the matter in Septembers The Ecologist as I pointed out in my post “Can cows stop climate change” . Graham Harvey has written a very good article in The Times (04/01/10) headed “Belching cows can help to rescue our planet” in which he explains about “mob grazing” and how its aids carbon sequestration, locking carbon into the soil. So I recommend both articles to you if for no other reason than to bring a bit of balance to the hysteria….. that includes you too Macca.
Cartoon: http://www.squidoo.com/fartingcow
Imagine if we had a process to remove billions of tonnes of CO2 from the atmosphere safely, quickly and cost-effectively – while at the same time reversing desertification, boosting biodiversity, enhancing global food security and improving the lives of hundreds of millions of people in rural and regional areas around our planet?
We do – it’s called changed grazing management and soil carbon.
Please take a look at the presentations on http://www.soilcarbon.com.au/ to learn more
I have had a look at your presentation; very compelling, it really is all common sense things we already knew, it just needs work like this to join the dots.
Keep up the good work.