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��A woman I work with cut this “ad” out of the Idaho Falls paper. Maybe you’ll find it as entertaining as I did:

��MOTHER NATURE’S RECYCLING MACHINE--IN IDAHO

��Cows are natural recyclers. Their remarkable stomachs allow them to digest grass, roughage, food by-products and other materials that people can’t eat.

��Cows help ease landfill problems. Twenty-five percent of food processing by-products is fed to cattle. Sugar beet pulp, potato skins, almond hulls, fruit pits, cottonseed, and grape skins from juice and wine production all help product [sic] healthful, nutritious, low-fat beef.

��Cows make the most of our food production resources. Eighty-five percent of what cattle eat is material that people can’t digest. In fact, half of the plant material resulting from food-crop production, such as corn stalks and wheat straw, would go to waste if cattle didn’t eat it.

��Cattle production is solar powered. The “solar collector” is the millions of acres of land in the U.S. that can’t be used for growing food crops. About two-thirds of all agricultural land in the U.S. is classified as grazing land. The sun provides the energy for this natural resource to grow the grass that cows eat.

��Cows are also environmental protection machines. Like mowing a lawn or pruning a tree, cattle grazing promotes plant vigor and diversity. Experts say that soil productivity, as well as water and air quality, is better maintained by well-managed grazing than by almost any other type of land use.

IDAHO CATTLEMEN’S ASSOCIATION
AMERICA’S ORIGINAL CONSERVATIONISTS


��So, what do you think, Janet? Now that I know that cows are solar powered, I guess I should start eating them instead of those fossil-burning vegetables. And aren’t 60% of our food crops (that the cattle eat the waste from) grown solely as grain for livestock such as cows? And what about that methane that they pump out which is a greenhouse gas that is forty times more effective than Carbon Dioxide at contributing toward the global warming effect--is that as good of an environmental protection machine as the lawn mower?
��Their superior logic and reasoning obviously has overwhelmed me because silly me, I just don’t get it.






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