Once again, while absolutely agreeing that regenerative farming and sensible animal husbandry are brilliant, I do get tired of reading stories that suggest sequestering carbon is some kind of positive byproduct or that the WEF attendees carbon footprints makes them hypocrites - they are of course, but it gives credence by association that CO2 is bad.
I hope you don't tire -- carbon sequestration IS good, in agriculture, where the carbon increases productivity and soil health, and reduces erosion. If people think it also helps save the world from global warming, so be it. But this is a win-win, an area we can agree -- carbon in soils is good for the soil microbiome and thus everything else, regardless of climate change arguments..... Thanks for writing.
Hi John, I appreciate the point very much. Just gets murky when people are encouraged to do the right thing for the wrong reasons and the trait is manipulated for nefarious ends.
Some opportunists deliberately generate murkiness.... But the key takeway is that blaming cows for climate change doesn't make any "scientific" sense even for those claiming the planet is warming -- to the extent that is true, cows sequester more greenhouse gases than they emit, period. So why the lies? -- what you suggest is mere murkiness. The case for cows is very clear, and at the same time the case is made that someone is lying very, very big lies. Then we must ask why they are lying so profoundly and profusely, if their motives are what they claim....
Multiple reasons. They don't want us accessing protein and animal fats, want a market expansion for their Frankenfoods (Soylent Green anyone), and insects knowing chitin is deleterious to our health, a land grab for rewilding,, corporatism all food production under Codex Alimentarious to further poison us with their "fortified" filth, separate us from nature and control every aspect of the miserable serfdom the Survivors will be subject to.
Not everyone has the space for cows, but most homeowners could keep a small flock of chickens in their backyard. I wonder if they have the same restorative effect on the soil.
Yes and no. All manure rebuilds soils, but they are different. Generally, sheep is better than cow is better than horse. As to chickens, they have very high amounts of nitrogen and their manure will actually burn plants when fresh, but chicken manure pound for pound is likely higher in nitrogen and more potent than cow. But then there is quantity as well as quality -- cows put out a lot of poop..... :) Ironically, keeping backyard chickens is now illegal in many areas under zoning laws. We have forgotten the primacy of food.....
I have used the word cowcophany before, and I try not to be too redundant. I just listened to quite a cowcophany tonight, when I fed my waiting cows after dark by headlamp.
Cows are magnificent creatures and have alway had a symbiotic relationship with humans. They were put here for that purpose. Attn Mr Gates: " Why don't you put you money into 'farm domes' that can capture your methane and use it as a fuel source?" Wishful thinking... yeah right? He doesn't have a creative bone in his body if he really exists anymore!!
Once again, while absolutely agreeing that regenerative farming and sensible animal husbandry are brilliant, I do get tired of reading stories that suggest sequestering carbon is some kind of positive byproduct or that the WEF attendees carbon footprints makes them hypocrites - they are of course, but it gives credence by association that CO2 is bad.
I hope you don't tire -- carbon sequestration IS good, in agriculture, where the carbon increases productivity and soil health, and reduces erosion. If people think it also helps save the world from global warming, so be it. But this is a win-win, an area we can agree -- carbon in soils is good for the soil microbiome and thus everything else, regardless of climate change arguments..... Thanks for writing.
Hi John, I appreciate the point very much. Just gets murky when people are encouraged to do the right thing for the wrong reasons and the trait is manipulated for nefarious ends.
Some opportunists deliberately generate murkiness.... But the key takeway is that blaming cows for climate change doesn't make any "scientific" sense even for those claiming the planet is warming -- to the extent that is true, cows sequester more greenhouse gases than they emit, period. So why the lies? -- what you suggest is mere murkiness. The case for cows is very clear, and at the same time the case is made that someone is lying very, very big lies. Then we must ask why they are lying so profoundly and profusely, if their motives are what they claim....
Multiple reasons. They don't want us accessing protein and animal fats, want a market expansion for their Frankenfoods (Soylent Green anyone), and insects knowing chitin is deleterious to our health, a land grab for rewilding,, corporatism all food production under Codex Alimentarious to further poison us with their "fortified" filth, separate us from nature and control every aspect of the miserable serfdom the Survivors will be subject to.
That pretty much sums it up....
Not everyone has the space for cows, but most homeowners could keep a small flock of chickens in their backyard. I wonder if they have the same restorative effect on the soil.
Yes and no. All manure rebuilds soils, but they are different. Generally, sheep is better than cow is better than horse. As to chickens, they have very high amounts of nitrogen and their manure will actually burn plants when fresh, but chicken manure pound for pound is likely higher in nitrogen and more potent than cow. But then there is quantity as well as quality -- cows put out a lot of poop..... :) Ironically, keeping backyard chickens is now illegal in many areas under zoning laws. We have forgotten the primacy of food.....
Of course they made it illegal. Any sort of self-sufficiency is undesirable.
A trio of rabbits put out a lot of manure and it doesn't burn like chickens.
Chickens scratching help to aerate soils, and this is of benefit.
Great writing as always John but I cannot believe you missed the chance at "Contrary to the anti-COW-cophony of the climate crisis crowd..."
lol... Don't you believe it.
I have used the word cowcophany before, and I try not to be too redundant. I just listened to quite a cowcophany tonight, when I fed my waiting cows after dark by headlamp.
I’m glad you are here and keep writing about these subjects. I’m an urban person and would not otherwise be aware of them.
I'm grateful for the encouragemen5.
Thank goodness for countries where there is less pretending.
Cows are magnificent creatures and have alway had a symbiotic relationship with humans. They were put here for that purpose. Attn Mr Gates: " Why don't you put you money into 'farm domes' that can capture your methane and use it as a fuel source?" Wishful thinking... yeah right? He doesn't have a creative bone in his body if he really exists anymore!!
:)