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[bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>]

This articlwe  from today's NYT palys on this same issue of factory farming 
pollution that Roxann was speaking..............................

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Excerpt:


As More Eat Meat, a Bid to Cut Emissions 
 
Michel de Groot for The New York Times

The United Nations expects beef and pork consumption to double between 2000 
and 2050. 


 
By ELISABETH ROSENTHAL
Published: December 3, 2008 

STERKSEL, the Netherlands — The cows and pigs dotting these flat green plains 
in the southern Netherlands create a bucolic landscape. But looked at through 
the lens of greenhouse gas accounting, they are living smokestacks, spewing 
methane emissions into the air. 

 Can People Have Meat and a Planet, Too?
 

The New York Times

The farm at Sterksel makes electricity for itself and for sale, and sells 
carbon credits. 

That is why a group of farmers-turned-environmentalists here at a smelly but 
impeccably clean research farm have a new take on making a silk purse from a 
sow’s ear: They cook manure from their 3,000 pigs to capture the methane 
trapped within it, and then use the gas to make electricity for the local 
power grid. 


http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/04/science/earth/04meat.html?em


--- On Fri, 12/5/08, Lynn Wigglesworth <lynnw1366 AT hotmail.com> wrote: