Jennifer Marohasy

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Cows Greener than Soy?

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I am dismayed that so many people have been so easily fooled on the meat eating and climate change issue following the UN report.  The culprit is not meat eating but rather the excesses of corporate/industrial agriculture.  Read more here.

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  1. janama says

    Just out of town a farmer planted a soy crop. First he removed the cattle and put them on the hilly ground that he can’t grow soy on.

    Then he fertilised the paddocks with chemical fertiliser. Once the crop emerged he treated it twice with chemicals using a crop duster airplane. Finally a harvester was used to extract the soy beans and a large truck transported the crop to the local distribution outlet.

    The paddock was then seeded with a winter grass and the cattle are now back on the paddock.

    It’s pretty clear which is the greater creator of CO2 emissions.

  3. Dave B says

    I have also heard from Brazilian ecologists that much of the land cleared of rainforest is now growing soyabeans.

  4. janama says

    Dave B – Brazil supplies China with soy bean – China has built the rail and ports to facilitate it.