Eat Less Meat !!
Posted by: Don Atkinson on 14 October 2018
Abstracted from the BBC website:-
Scientists say we ought to eat much less meat because the meat industry causes so many carbon emissions.
But the climate minister Claire Perry has told BBC News it is not the government's job to advise people on a climate-friendly diet.
She would not even say whether she herself would eat less meat.
Ms Perry has been accused by Friends of the Earth of a dereliction of duty. They say ministers must show leadership on this difficult issue.
But the minister - who is personally convinced about the need to tackle climate change - is anxious to avoid accusations of finger-wagging.
Now, if you look through some of my posts a few years ago you will see this doesn't come as a shock to me.
Mankind has been eating meat for 200,000 years. We are designed that way. We used to hunt meat. Then c. 10,000 years ago we figured out it was a lot easier and a lot more reliable to farm our meat. And there was a remarkable increase in green house gasses (principally methane).
The problem today is not just that we each eat a lot of meat, it's because there are far too many of us, and we all want to eat meat (yeh, ok, there are a few vegetarians etc).
If George were still here, he would be agreeing about the "far too many of us" issue.
So, the gov might be recommending that we eat smaller pizzas and pies, but let's make sure those pies are stuffed full of good quality, wholesome meat, the gov doesn't want to become a nanny state about eating less meat, and sure as hell, they don't want to start a discussion about population reduction !
Innocent Bystander posted:It is really rather easy - plumb them all in, collecting the methane for use as fuel. Where’s the difficulty in that? Yes, I know there’d be pipes all over the place, and a need for valves to divert the solids on demand - but inot much different surely from managing packets of information and accurate flow of data in a computer network - surely it can’t be harder than setting up a streaming network?
Good idea. I remember seeing photos from WWII where some folk had cars with huge bags on the roof containing gas to run them. Perhaps Elon Musk could find a way of strapping a cow on the top of car with the engine converted to run on methane. Unlike the large electric batteries used in his cars today which could well pose an environmental problem when they come to the end of their working life, with a cow the family could just eat it! That's proper recycling. 
Good idea. I remember seeing photos from WWII where some folk had cars with huge bags on the roof containing gas to run them. Perhaps Elon Musk could find a way of strapping a cow on the top of car with the engine converted to run on methane. Unlike the large electric batteries used in his cars today which could well pose an environmental problem when they come to the end of their working life, with a cow the family could just eat it! That's proper recycling.
I think they used to be called......."horses" !!
Similar to cows, and according to the French, quite tastey when they come to the end of their life.
But no need for the metal work called a car, to be attached to their underside for travel...........