By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--February 13, 2019
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“To cut down on the giggling, departmental staff, including the Minister, refer to these as "livestock emissions", but there's no getting around it: Our government believes that in order to meet our Kyoto obligations, we have to make cattle and sheep toot less. “It's no small thing--according to the government, emissions from animals and their manure make up 20 megatonnes of greenhouse gases each year--fully one twelfth the amount Canada must cut back to meet Kyoto's targets.”
“Then there's Environmental Defence Canada, an eco-activist group dedicated to fart-free living. In October 2002, they released a scathing 37-page report called It's Hitting the Fan--pointing out that cattle and pigs nearly outnumber people in Canada, and all of those animals are farting--creating "foul odours", "toxic vapours" and even cause “headaches". "Bob Friesen, president of the Canadian Federation of Agriculture, and his group fired back with their own press release, entitled Environment Group Spreads Manure: "Animals produce manure, manure is spread on the land to grow crops, and animals eat the crops. It's a perfectly natural and beneficial cycle," said Friesen. “The report presented to Turtle Bay by the Food and Agricultural Organisation, entitled Livestock's Long Shadow, concludes that the main culprit in global warming has been under our noses all the time. “Livestock are responsible for 18 percent of the greenhouse gases that cause global warming more than cars, planes and all other forms of transport put together.” “It's official: Taking to the roads in an SUV's got nothing on cattle flatulence.
“Although cattle hold the worst offender category, all barnyard critters have a hand to play in greenhouse gas emissions, and Livestock's Long Shadow includes damage done by sheep, chickens, pigs and goats. “And it's not just climate change that cud-chewing cattle can be blamed for. “Cattle are catalogued as environmental bad apples and if nothing comes along to stop them they will double their damage to Mother Earth by 2050 as demand for meat increases.” "As sure as it will snow in winter, in a classic case of mistaken identity, Gore misidentified the perp in his movie, an Inconvenient Truth as man. In global warming, the bad guy is the cow not the cowboy. But the box office has already made its big payday."Meanwhile, President Donald Trump is calling the Green-Not-So-New Deal, “Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Cow Fart Brigade.”
He added: “Even if no other country would do the same.” Here’s the President’s hilarious tweet:
I think it is very important for the Democrats to press forward with their Green New Deal. It would be great for the so-called “Carbon Footprint” to permanently eliminate all Planes, Cars, Cows, Oil, Gas & the Military - even if no other country would do the same. Brilliant!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 9, 2019
The Left indeed constantly shoot themselves in the foot — Trump’s election is the ultimate example of what their extremism wreaks. Because it…reeks. Voters were tired of the radicalism, so they opted for something completely different. Despite the odiousness of Dems’ and media’s treatment of him during the 2016 election, Donald J. came out smellin’ like a rose. “Trump also thanked the stinky opposition in June:In the meantime, comin’ atcha, ready or not, Mademoiselle Methane, the Cow Fart Killer.“Please, please, please don’t remove Nancy Pelosi. And please keep Maxine Waters on the air as your face and your mouthpiece for the Democratic Party.”
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