http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover121106.htm

It’s not man’s carbon footprint causing climate change but the 1.5-
billion and still growing cattle population chewing cud out in farmer’s
fields.....

Livestock are responsible for 18 percent of the greenhouse gases that
cause global warming more than cars, planes and all other forms of
transport put together.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover121106.htm

Al Gore needs a flatulence detector

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover121106.htm

Al Gore needs a flatulence detector
Al Gore's cattle call
Cows, global Warming, Al Gore

By Judi McLeod

Monday, December 11, 2006

Rolling pastures are calling to environmental guru Al Gore. Having
blamed man as the chief cause for global warming, he's been proven wrong
by a 400-page report to the United Nations.

It's not man's carbon footprint causing climate change but the 1.5-
billion and still growing cattle population chewing cud out in farmer's
fields.

The report presented to Turtle Bay by the Food and Agricultural
Organisation, entitled Livestock's Long Shadow, concludes that the main
culprit in global warming has been under our noses all the time.

Livestock are responsible for 18 percent of the greenhouse gases that
cause global warming more than cars, planes and all other forms of
transport put together.

It's official: Taking to the roads in an SUV's got nothing on cattle
flatulence.

Although cattle hold the worst offender category, all barnyard critters
have a hand to play in greenhouse gas emissions, and Livestock's Long
Shadow includes damage done by sheep, chickens, pigs and goats.

And it's not just climate change that cud-chewing cattle can be blamed
for.

They are also charged with a host of other environmental crimes, from
acid rain to the introduction of alien species, to creating dead zones
in the oceans from poisoning rivers and drinking water to destroying
coral reefs.

Lest anyone jump to the conclusion that cattle are responsible for
little green men type "alien species", the scientists who wrote the
report are talking about "Invasive alien species", namely plants,
animals and micro-organisms that occur outside of their natural habitat
or country of origin, and due to their ability to outperform and outgrow
indigenous species, they establish themselves in these non-native
habitats.

In layman's language, the weeds, pests, encroachers, invasives, exotics
or non-indigenous, in other words, the party crashers.

Cattle are catalogued as environmental bad apples and if nothing comes
along to stop them they will double their damage to Mother Earth by 2050
as demand for meat increases.

Burning fuel to produce fertilizer to grow feed to transport it-and
clearing vegetation for grazing-produces 9 percent of all emissions of
carbon monoxide, the most common greenhouse gas. And their wind and
manure emit more than one third of emissions of another, methane, which
warms the world 20 times faster than carbon dioxide.

In a textbook case of mistaken identity, Gore misidentified the perp in
his movie, An Inconvenient Truth as man. In global warming, the bad guy
is the cow not the cowboy. But the box office has already made its big
payday.

Had he been paying more attention to Canada, mother country of Kyoto
architect Maurice Strong, Gore may have avoided his blooper.

Canada's Agriculture Department was on to the cattle long before the UN
ever stepped forward. CAD spends a lot of time studying flatulence.
ManureNet, a federal government website, dedicated to manure management,
keeps the public informed on the latest on flatulence.

According to Ezra Levant in his book Fight Kyoto, "That's where civil
servants spend countless hours-and tax dollars-capturing and analyzing
animal burps and farts. To cut down on the giggling, departmental staff,
including the Minister, refer to these as "livestock emissions", but
there's no getting around it: Our government believes that in order to
meet our Kyoto obligations, we have to make cattle and sheep toot less.
It's no small thing-according to the government, emissions from animals
and their manure make up 20 megatonnes of greenhouse gases each
year-fully one twelfth the amount Canada must cut back to meet Kyoto's
targets."

Then there's Environmental Defence Canada, an eco-activist group
dedicated to fart-free living. In October 2002, they released a scathing
37-page report called It's Hitting the Fan-pointing out that cattle and
pigs nearly outnumber people in Canada, and all of those animals are
farting-creating "foul odours", "toxic vapours" and even cause
"headaches".

Bob Friesen, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, and
his group fired back with their own press release, entitled Environment
Group Spreads Manure.

"Animals produce manure, manure is spread on the land to grow crops, and
animals eat the crops. It's a perfectly natural and beneficial cycle,"
said Friesen.

Meanwhile, now that the real culprit for global warming has been
discovered, Al Gore needs a flatulence detector.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover121106.htm

Al Gore needs a flatulence detector
Al Gore's cattle call
Cows, global Warming, Al Gore

By Judi McLeod

Monday, December 11, 2006

Rolling pastures are calling to environmental guru Al Gore. Having
blamed man as the chief cause for global warming, he's been proven wrong
by a 400-page report to the United Nations.

It's not man's carbon footprint causing climate change but the 1.5-
billion and still growing cattle population chewing cud out in farmer's
fields.

The report presented to Turtle Bay by the Food and Agricultural
Organisation, entitled Livestock's Long Shadow, concludes that the main
culprit in global warming has been under our noses all the time.

Livestock are responsible for 18 percent of the greenhouse gases that
cause global warming more than cars, planes and all other forms of
transport put together.

It's official: Taking to the roads in an SUV's got nothing on cattle
flatulence.

Although cattle hold the worst offender category, all barnyard critters
have a hand to play in greenhouse gas emissions, and Livestock's Long
Shadow includes damage done by sheep, chickens, pigs and goats.

And it's not just climate change that cud-chewing cattle can be blamed
for.

They are also charged with a host of other environmental crimes, from
acid rain to the introduction of alien species, to creating dead zones
in the oceans from poisoning rivers and drinking water to destroying
coral reefs.

Lest anyone jump to the conclusion that cattle are responsible for
little green men type "alien species", the scientists who wrote the
report are talking about "Invasive alien species", namely plants,
animals and micro-organisms that occur outside of their natural habitat
or country of origin, and due to their ability to outperform and outgrow
indigenous species, they establish themselves in these non-native
habitats.

In layman's language, the weeds, pests, encroachers, invasives, exotics
or non-indigenous, in other words, the party crashers.

Cattle are catalogued as environmental bad apples and if nothing comes
along to stop them they will double their damage to Mother Earth by 2050
as demand for meat increases.

Burning fuel to produce fertilizer to grow feed to transport it-and
clearing vegetation for grazing-produces 9 percent of all emissions of
carbon monoxide, the most common greenhouse gas. And their wind and
manure emit more than one third of emissions of another, methane, which
warms the world 20 times faster than carbon dioxide.

In a textbook case of mistaken identity, Gore misidentified the perp in
his movie, An Inconvenient Truth as man. In global warming, the bad guy
is the cow not the cowboy. But the box office has already made its big
payday.

Had he been paying more attention to Canada, mother country of Kyoto
architect Maurice Strong, Gore may have avoided his blooper.

Canada's Agriculture Department was on to the cattle long before the UN
ever stepped forward. CAD spends a lot of time studying flatulence.
ManureNet, a federal government website, dedicated to manure management,
keeps the public informed on the latest on flatulence.

According to Ezra Levant in his book Fight Kyoto, "That's where civil
servants spend countless hours-and tax dollars-capturing and analyzing
animal burps and farts. To cut down on the giggling, departmental staff,
including the Minister, refer to these as "livestock emissions", but
there's no getting around it: Our government believes that in order to
meet our Kyoto obligations, we have to make cattle and sheep toot less.
It's no small thing-according to the government, emissions from animals
and their manure make up 20 megatonnes of greenhouse gases each
year-fully one twelfth the amount Canada must cut back to meet Kyoto's
targets."

Then there's Environmental Defence Canada, an eco-activist group
dedicated to fart-free living. In October 2002, they released a scathing
37-page report called It's Hitting the Fan-pointing out that cattle and
pigs nearly outnumber people in Canada, and all of those animals are
farting-creating "foul odours", "toxic vapours" and even cause
"headaches".

Bob Friesen, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, and
his group fired back with their own press release, entitled Environment
Group Spreads Manure.

"Animals produce manure, manure is spread on the land to grow crops, and
animals eat the crops. It's a perfectly natural and beneficial cycle,"
said Friesen.

Meanwhile, now that the real culprit for global warming has been
discovered, Al Gore needs a flatulence detector.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover121106.htm

Al Gore needs a flatulence detector
Al Gore's cattle call
Cows, global Warming, Al Gore

By Judi McLeod

Monday, December 11, 2006

Rolling pastures are calling to environmental guru Al Gore. Having
blamed man as the chief cause for global warming, he’s been proven wrong
by a 400-page report to the United Nations.

It’s not man’s carbon footprint causing climate change but the 1.5-
billion and still growing cattle population chewing cud out in farmer’s
fields.

http://www.canadafreepress.com/2006/cover121106.htm

Al Gore needs a flatulence detector
Al Gore's cattle call
Cows, global Warming, Al Gore

By Judi McLeod

Monday, December 11, 2006

Rolling pastures are calling to environmental guru Al Gore. Having
blamed man as the chief cause for global warming, he’s been proven wrong
by a 400-page report to the United Nations.

It’s not man’s carbon footprint causing climate change but the 1.5-
billion and still growing cattle population chewing cud out in farmer’s
fields.