In message >, Dave J. >
writes
>In > on Wed, 19 Mar 2008
>15:52:34 +0000, in uk.current-events.bird-flu, 'Oz' wrote:
>
>>>Meat is (I believe) an inefficient use of resources in the production of
>>>food. It also has a vast (and compared to decaying plant matter unavoidable)
>>>amount of methane as a byproduct.
>>
>>That depends. If you are talking about most of upland britain, its
>>impossible to grow arable crops there so the ONLY resource is grazing by
>>livestock. In this case of course its NOT an inefficient use of
>>resources.
>
>Yes, that makes a good justification for minor meat consumption. Though
>not for the American style gullet stuffing that's threatening to infect
>the globe.
>
>>Also to note that all decaying plant matter emits methane, remember the
>>fuss when they recently discovered vast amounts were being emitted by
>>topsoils worldwide.
>
>I've always figured though that the emissions from decaying vegetable
>matter are more easily either controlled, reduced, or harnessed for
>burning than those from animals.
>
>Make no mistake, I'm in no way an advocate of humanity turning vegetarian,
>I just see both sides of the debate and accept that we're swinging too far
>into rain forest destroying hamburger-gulping greed that caries a massive,
>almost karmic, future health cost.
>
>Dave J.

I'm obviously suffering from mental constipation but could someone
enlighten me as to what this rubbish has to do with a ng dedicated to
British birdwatching? By all means discuss this in the fullest possible
detail in the vegan, veggie, environmentally aware landfill sites,
methane and related gases and such focussed groups but please don't dump
this rubbish in the British birdwatching group. After all you have
around 60,000 other newsgroups to choose.

Hopefully an ill controlled rant will not ensue.

And I know I'm crossposting. Irritating isn't it!

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Tom Withycombe
NW Dorset/UK