Thursday, October 04, 2007
i've been doing some reading
so.the october issue of national geographic? it's all about global warming and alternative fuel sources and stuff.
so, i've been reading up on ethanol made from corn while on the can (did i say too much?) and it says that it has been driving corn prices up and also the cost of corn-fed meats (beef, pigs, etc) . . . already like 1/3 of the nation's corn goes to ethanol and it is hardly making a dent here.
so i got to thinking: i wonder how much percent of our corn goes to feed the thousands and thousands of animals in factory farms? and if, just what if, we all made a plan to kill and eat like half as many animals as we did before (i don't eat them at all, but i am just saying "what if") . . . this would do several things.
a) reduce the demand for corn and other grains to feed the cows, etc. cause we wouldn't be raising as many.
b) increase the amount of corn and other grains that are available for distilling into biofuels.
c) decrease the amount of land being used for factory farms (though they already cram too many animals into too small of lots, so maybe they should just keep the farms the same size and hold less animals there . . . sort of like prisons in california) . . . potentially allowing more land for growing MORE grains for distilling.
d) improve the health of americans across the nation in several ways:
1) our arteries would be healthier
2) our gastrointestinal systems would be healthier
3) we would have less "bad" cholesterol (which comes only from animal products) in our systems
4) we would be breathing in less bad fumes from rock oil and fossil fuels (biofuel burns MUCH cleaner than fossil fuel)
our lungs, hearts, arteries, etc would be so much healthier! not to mention our weight, acne, etc.
PLUS cow-farts are (seriously people this is true) raising the temperature of the earth too. so less cows equals less farts equals less CO2 in the atmosphere . . .
wow! i could go on . . .
this is all just speculation really. whatcha think?
say it don't spray it 2:05 PM
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