> >> >Examples ...
> >> >
> >>of "the sins they [the poor] must necessarily
> >>commit to survive"
>
>[...]
>
>I have to admit this sounds at least plausible. Can you recommend some
>sources?
Not off-hand. Unless you count me as a source, why not?
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At 12:38 AM -0400 25/6/03, Doug Henwood wrote:
>>No, really, the gas is released from the front end of the sheep.
>
>Perhaps I've mixed up my species - I thought cow farts were a major greenhouse gas culprit.
Trust me:
http://www.abc.net.au/quantum/scripts99/9909/sheepscpt.htm
"Livestock like sheep and cattle burp, yes burp, an astonishing 14% of Australia's total greenhouse gas emissions. To meet our commitments under the 1998 Kyoto Protocol we need to put a plug on our livestock and their killer methane burps. In what's a 5 million dollar project, Australian scientists are doing just that."
...
"Narration: Dr Sue Baker and her team have come up with a first. A vaccine to inoculate sheep against their own methane producing organisms. To find out if their vaccine stops methane being produced. The CSIRO research team needed a way to measure it.
Natasha and Sue with sheep
Natasha: Why is this ah sheep wearing this outfit. What it's for?
Sue: Well the coat that he has on is designed to hold these tanks. And this whole apparatus is to allow us to establish how much methane per day a grazing sheep produces . So we have a little pieces of tubing here sitting just above his nostril and the tubing comes back over here and through and is connected up to this tank and the air that it sucks in is the air breathed out the sheep.
Natasha: So your saying that the sheep actually breathes out methane a greenhouse gas.
Sue: Methane actually comes out through the nostrils.
Tash: Not through other end?
Sue: No, that's a common fallacy."