Save the planet - kill cows.

[saintjohn]

Got smog?

California's San Joaquin Valley for some time has had the dirtiest air in the country. Monday, officials said gases from ruminating dairy cows, not exhaust from cars, are the region's biggest single source of a chief smog-forming pollutant.

Every year, the average dairy cow produces 19.3 pounds of gases, called volatile organic compounds, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District said. Those gases react with other pollutants to form ground-level ozone, or smog.

With 2.5 million dairy cows — roughly one of every five in the country — emissions of almost 20 pounds per cow mean that cattle in the San Joaquin Valley produce more organic compounds than are generated by either cars or trucks or pesticides, the air district said. The finding will serve as the basis for strict air-quality regulations on the region's booming dairy industry.

The San Joaquin Valley, Houston and Los Angeles have the three worst air-pollution problems in America. Their relative rank varies from year to year depending in part on weather conditions. Over the last six years, however, the San Joaquin Valley has violated the federal limit on ozone smog over an eight-hour period more than any other region. That "eight-hour standard" is the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's main barometer for the severity of smog.

The dairy industry will be forced to invest millions of dollars in expensive pollution-control technology in feedlots and waste lagoons, and may even have to consider altering animals' diets to meet the region's planned air-quality regulations.

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la...nes-california

[swirlundergrounder]

Save the planet!! Stop eating beef so that the beef industry won't have to breed more cows to contribute to this problem..

The bottom line is pollution is the ultimately the fault of humans and our needs.

If we don't eat beef then we don't need to breed all of these cows (that supposedly emits all of this pollution) to consume.

[pod]

Well the cows tend to breed on their own anyways.

[JMT]

these are dairy cows.

[cutchemist]

Originally Posted by JMT

these are dairy cows.

gland someone read the article
lol

[V. Barbarino]

don't eat beef, lol, you peta people are wackos...

[swirlundergrounder]

Originally Posted by KuTiEKhEmE

[quote author=JMT link=board=6;threadid=18589;start=0#msg220385 date=1123008763]
these are dairy cows.

gland someone read the article
lol
[/quote]dairy cows, pink cows, cows that fly over the moon, whatever they may be... The point is there's high pollution in that area and who's fault is that? Is it the cows fault (The dairy cows), or people for breeding the 2.5 million cows that casue this pollution?

[Slide On The Ice]

Originally Posted by .......otnisaJ

[quote author=KuTiEKhEmE link=board=6;threadid=18589;start=0#msg220403 date=1123009794]
[quote author=JMT link=board=6;threadid=18589;start=0#msg220385 date=1123008763]
these are dairy cows.

gland someone read the article
lol
[/quote]dairy cows, pink cows, cows that fly over the moon, whatever they may be... The point is there's high pollution in that area and who's fault is that? Is it the cows fault (The dairy cows), or people for breeding the 2.5 million cows that casue this pollution?
[/quote]
Don't have a cow, Terry, that's all a lot of bull and udderly untrue. You're just trying to steer us from the truth. ;D :P I'll be eating meat until the cows come home.

[swirlundergrounder]

Originally Posted by Slide

[quote author=.......otnisaJ yrreT link=board=6;threadid=18589;start=0#msg220433 date=1123011670]
[quote author=KuTiEKhEmE link=board=6;threadid=18589;start=0#msg220403 date=1123009794]
[quote author=JMT link=board=6;threadid=18589;start=0#msg220385 date=1123008763]
these are dairy cows.

gland someone read the article
lol
[/quote]dairy cows, pink cows, cows that fly over the moon, whatever they may be... The point is there's high pollution in that area and who's fault is that? Is it the cows fault (The dairy cows), or people for breeding the 2.5 million cows that casue this pollution?
[/quote]
Don't have a cow, Terry, that's all a lot of bull and udderly untrue. You're just trying to steer us from the truth. ;D :P I'll be eating meat until the cows come home.
[/quote]




YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!!! LOL