{"id":4660,"date":"2010-04-08T14:02:57","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:02:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=4660"},"modified":"2010-04-08T14:02:57","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T19:02:57","slug":"this-just-in-cows-dont-cause-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/4660\/this-just-in-cows-dont-cause-global-warming\/","title":{"rendered":"This Just In:  Cows Don&#8217;t Cause Global Warming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, actually it&#8217;s been in for a few hours, but we were busy feeding the goats, who like to eat while listening to the exhaust of the V-12 just sitting there idling.<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve been told for years that we shouldn\u2019t eat red meat, which is really tasty and harder to kick than Oxy, because red meat on the hoof emits methane gas, which is supposedly bad for the environment.\u00a0 Of course, since dead red meat don\u2019t emit nothing but eating pleasure (and shoes not made in a chemical factory), we\u2019ve not been able to understand why we shouldn\u2019t just eat as much as we can, keeping the herds properly thinned and methane-managed.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/earth\/environment\/climatechange\/7564682\/Cows-absolved-of-causing-global-warming-with-nitrous-oxide.html\" target=\"_blank\">according to the Telegraph<\/a>, this researcher named Klaus Butterbach-Bahl of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology in Germany went over to Inner Mongolia and watched Inner Mongolian cows eat some Inner Mongolian grass.\u00a0 Dr. Butterbach-Bahl then allowed as to how there were more nitrous oxide emissions (judged to be the third most noxious greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide and methane) when the cows weren\u2019t eating.\u00a0 All about microbes in the soil, don\u2019t you know.\u00a0 So it\u2019s okay to have cows eating grass, at least in Inner Mongolia, which is surely better than them eating the Inner Mongolians.<\/p>\n<p>Not to be politically incorrect while scientifically accurate, Dr. Butterbach-Bahl said that his &#8220;study does not overturn the case for cutting down on red meat.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We now return you to your regular programming, although unless you are watching an NCIS marathon, it\u2019s just full of bad stuff that Dr. Butterbach-Bahl hasn\u2019t studied yet.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, actually it&#8217;s been in for a few hours, but we were busy feeding the goats, who like to eat while listening to the exhaust of the V-12 just sitting there idling. We\u2019ve been told for years that we shouldn\u2019t eat red meat, which is really tasty and harder to kick than Oxy, because red [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1088,1086,196,887,1087],"class_list":["post-4660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-cows","tag-dr-butterbach-bahl","tag-environment","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-karlsruhe-institute-of-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4660"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4662,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4660\/revisions\/4662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}