But surely the GW problem is due to cows' botty burps, not to their flops lying around in fields? Thus the intro of scarabs would make no difference; they just clean up the mess and help fertalise the soil.

>I got this from http://cattle-today.com/
>"....The world cattle population is estimated to be about 1.3 billion head, with about 30 percent in Asia, 20 percent in South America, 15 percent in Africa, 14 percent in North and Central America, and 10 percent in Europe. The 10 states in the US with the largest cattle populations are Texas, Missouri, Oklahoma, Nebraska, South Dakota, Montana, Kansas, Iowa, Kentucky, and Florida...."
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>How about fixing the pooo problem? What we need to do is accelerate the breeding of what's called the 'dung bettle' - a wonder little animal, that - well..errr... it eats poooo! So I figure if we have more cattle then we need more dung bettles - thus elimating that contribution to global warming and ME still eating steak! whoohoo!
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>>So, who has the most cattle? :o) If it is not Texas, they would complain! (Actually I suspect it may be South America - I saw a LOT of cattle down there!)
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>>>Don't try and ole the blame on them!
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>>>Besides there are cattle in Europe and Asia too - and Australasia.
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>>>>It is all the Spaniards fault! They brought the first cows to Texas! :o)
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>>>>>>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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