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["Lynda" <lurine AT softcom.net>]

Blasphemy!  Olive oil is essential!  Why the nonas, nonis and mothers of 
Naples are raising up in arms as we speak!

As to methane.  Go with goats or sheep.  They produce less than 20% of the 
methane AND goats eating brush (which contain tannins) produce 50% less 
methane than other goats.

Although that wasn't one of the basis (hair sheep, milder flavor, less 
greasy, less squirrely, less problems with parasites and diseases, slim or 
no lambing problems, at least 3 lambings per 2 years, multiple births to 
quads after first lambing AND ability to feed quads) for the sheep that 
youngest is buying (St. Croix ewes and White Dorper ram), it could be an 
added benefit because those two breeds are browsers, not just grazers and we 
certainly have a LOT of tannin around here!

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Gene GeRue" <genegerue AT ruralize.com>
> I do not keep cows or goats or sheep, but except for the cheese I
> believe I could could raise all the other essential ingredients for a
> good pizza. Unless one considers olive oil to be essential. So, if the
> baking were accomplished by hand-cut wood and soil for grain and
> veggies were hand prepared and with a neighbor that provides milk or
> cheese--not using a vehicle for delivery-- perhaps the carbon foot
> print could be only the, um, methane that the milking ruminant expels.