Monday, December 5, 2016

Our Cowfart Future

With 30% of California’s dairies having closed and about an additional 600 slated to close, the yoke of our state government continues to threaten our rural economies and food supply. Of course, this is for our own good to protect us from imagined global warming. The self-serving California Air Resources Board has declared that 59% of our suddenly dangerous methane gas comes primarily from cattle. Of this, 31% comes from the enteric fermentation of their ruminate digestion with 28% from manure.

Their inspired calculations only include human-controlled sources. But methane is produced from rotting organic matter, including our cherished compost piles. Given the vast forests and other wildlands of California, natural methane production must dwarf that of human activity. A Dutch friend told me that as a boy, he and his buddies would place coffee cans on their boggy soil. After a brief spell they would carefully lift up a side and light it, the can taking off like a rocket. And if the Central Valley hadn’t been settled, I’m sure the elkfarts and marshes would probably produce as much methane as the current cattle.

This hysteria that the elites are engendering has caused the Canadians to add zeolite to cattle feed to reduce their flatulence. While this is a safe mineral and also used as a human health food, no one knows the long term effect of its consumption by cattle or by those consuming dairy products or beef. (Maybe this will be the basis of some juicy class action lawsuits in future decades?) The methane phobia has gone so far that one fearful global warming warrior has even suggested transporting our leaves to factories for controlled methane reuse with us buying the end product back as fertilizer. Self sufficiency certainly threatens the globalist agenda and impedes the global warming scare being used to frighten us into submission.

California human inducted methane production is 25% from waste with 21% from landfills and the remaining 4% from wastewater (sewage treatment plants). This methane can be, and sometimes is, captured and fed into the natural gas system. Using this gas, from an existing stationary source, reduces the need of the drilling into the earth that alarms some people. But capturing this gas is a lesser priority that "cowfart" regulation. Why use almost free energy when you can cripple an entire industry, throw people out of work and make us dependent upon imported food from countries that then may want concessions from us?

This reasoning of California’s ruling elite reminds me of decision to build the first section of high speed rail in the area least likely to produce revenue rather than the area most likely to produce revenue. Sometimes I don’t feel like I live in a state anymore, it’s more like an insane asylum. Go outside, take a deep breath and fill your lungs with methane. Live dangerously.
Copyright 2016, Mark L. Bennett

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