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  • From: bob ford <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
  • To: homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [Homestead] You think they won't tax yourhomestead...............
  • Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2008 06:43:30 -0800 (PST)

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:









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