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Obama Admin Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part of Its Climate Change Agenda…
No, this is not from the Onion....
As part of its plan to reduce U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, the Obama administration is targeting the dairy industry to reduce methane emissions in their operations.
This comes despite falling methane emission levels across the economy since 1990.
The White House has proposed cutting methane emissions from the dairy industry by 25 percent by 2020. Although U.S. agriculture only accounts for about 9 percent of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions, according to the Environmental Protection Agency, it makes up a sizeable portion of methane emissions — which is a very potent greenhouse gas.
“Cows emit a massive amount of methane through belching, with a lesser amount through flatulence,” according to How Stuff Works. “Statistics vary regarding how much methane the average dairy cow expels. Some experts say 100 liters to 200 liters a day… while others say it’s up to 500 liters… a day. In any case, that’s a lot of methane, an amount comparable to the pollution produced by a car in a day.”
“Of all domestic animal types, beef and dairy cattle were by far the largest emitters of [methane],” according to an EPA analysis charting greenhouse gas emissions in 2012. Cows and other animals produce methane through digestion, which ferments the food of animals.
http://dailycaller.com/2014/03/28/white-...z2xHqYITaT
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RE: Obama Admin Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part of Its Climate Change Agenda…
If anything proves that Obama and his administration is a joke this would be it. What are farmers supposed to do, give cows Beano?
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03-28-2014 09:34 PM |
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RE: Obama Admin Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part of Its Climate Change Agenda…
Since it's supposed to rain tomorrow and the kid's sports are rained out I am going to spend all day in my garage trying to develop a cow fart scrubber. Need to make sure the wife keeps me supplied in sandwiches and beer.
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03-28-2014 10:37 PM |
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RE: Obama Admin Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part of Its Climate Change Agenda…
(03-28-2014 09:34 PM)smn1256 Wrote: If anything proves that Obama and his administration is a joke this would be it. What are farmers supposed to do, give cows Beano?
I'm not trying to defend this kind of idiocy but I'm going to guess and suggest that perhaps what the cows are being fed has some direct relationship to their methane production.
So now maybe we can get Monsanto to genetically engineer a strain of corn that produces less methane during digestion.
I think I'll add some more Monsanto to my portfolio.
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RE: Obama Admin Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part of Its Climate Change Agenda…
(03-28-2014 10:37 PM)Kaplony Wrote: Since it's supposed to rain tomorrow and the kid's sports are rained out I am going to spend all day in my garage trying to develop a cow fart scrubber. Need to make sure the wife keeps me supplied in sandwiches and beer.
LOL .
Cows and woodstoves are killing America~! I hope you guys see what's really going on here - the small time farmers and country folk are being squeezed into the cities.
China and our debtors want their land, which we have put up as collateral for our growing debt to them.
Obama knows that these threads (+the midwest)...
...hold these threads together
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RE: Obama Admin Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part of Its Climate Change Agenda…
(03-28-2014 09:34 PM)smn1256 Wrote: If anything proves that Obama and his administration is a joke this would be it. What are farmers supposed to do, give cows Beano?
It would be funnier if it were just a joke and not something he can and will make happen. Remember, Obama gets whatever he wants.
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03-29-2014 02:13 PM |
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RE: Obama Admin Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part of Its Climate Change Agenda…
But what about the stench of BS coming from his administration?
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RE: Obama Admin Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part of Its Climate Change Agenda…
How many "Megafarts" has Obama & his placeholder wife burned up on Air Force One in 5 years? I'd bet more cow farts than the US produced last year...
(This post was last modified: 03-29-2014 02:20 PM by Jerry Falwell.)
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RE: Obama Admin Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part
White House has made contact with someone to figure out the problem and how to take care of cow farts:
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03-29-2014 02:22 PM |
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RE: Obama Admin Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part of Its Climate Change Agenda…
if obama really cared about global waring, he would simply stop talking. he's a primary source of hot air on the planet.
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03-29-2014 02:23 PM |
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RE: Obama Admin Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part of Its Climate Change Agenda…
(03-28-2014 09:34 PM)smn1256 Wrote: If anything proves that Obama and his administration is a joke this would be it. What are farmers supposed to do, give cows Beano?
As silly as that sounds? I guess they could. Since they have two stomachs would they have to be given be a double dose?
Maybe this could be Obama's crowning achievement. Stopping Cow farts!!
(This post was last modified: 03-29-2014 02:36 PM by Fo Shizzle.)
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RE: Obama Admin Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part of Its Climate Change Agenda…
Damn...The jokes write themselves on this one!!
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RE: Obama Admin Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part of Its Climate Change Agenda…
Watch out! Next they'll be coming for all these old folks in senior centers that are getting fed all these oatmeal dinners.
When will the madness stop?
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RE: Obama Admin Looks To Regulate Cow Flatulence As Part of Its Climate Change Agenda…
That was brilliant. Splendid, I might add. I laugh out loud, repeatedly.
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