It is all the Spaniards fault! They brought the first cows to Texas! :o)



>>We've butchered this thread.
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>So what can we do to short-horn it?
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>Hey, here's a thing:
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>One way of reducing this cow-guff greenhouse gas would be to stop eating beef. If we'd never eaten beef then we would have left the original wild herds to roam free, in the forests and on the plains, like deer. Thus they would have multiplied unchecked and herds reached "epidemic" proportions, thus resulting in the same problem. So what would we have had to do? cull them. What would we have done with the carcasses? well, no use letting such a good food resource go to waste - mi's well eat them. Well if you're going to eat them anyway, mi's well farm them, so they can be "culled" humanely and it's less trouble rounding them up and hunting them. So we end up with the same problem anyway!
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>>>I'm hoofing it outta here. I don't want to horn in on this one, so I'll just steer clear.
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>>>>You've _herd_ of the article before?
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>>>>>>You guys are really milking this one.
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>>>>>That report. They can blow it out there *sses!
>>>>>What hoof have they got for this theory? Do these scientists steak their reputations on this.
>>>>>We can ignore the warning but can we brisket?
>>>>>So we're all doomed. We must hope for bovine intervention.
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>>>>>It looks like old "Bison Bill" and his contempories did the world a favour then by reducing the herd from some 60 million to a few hundred. Otherwise we'd've had this problem many years ago. So that solves it. Kill off all the gnus (wilderbeeste) in Africa and we can continue to enjoy holdiay flights, use of the car, leave all the lights on, crank the heating or a/c up, etc.
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>>>>>>>Udderly fascinating.
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>>>>>>>>Very mooooooving article.
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>>>>>>>>>Can it be?
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>>>>>>>>>http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2062484.ece