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Originally Posted by TexasSP
That's the truth. I grew up with my dad having a cattle ranch as a side business of sorts. About 200-250 head usually. Being both in the city and country and different times growing up, I got doses of both sides. Early in my adult life I was a butcher for four years, it always amazed me how truly clueless people were about where their food came from. My favorite is how many people would complain about the "red water" in the meat packages and how they did not want it there. When I explained it was blood they would then proceed to ask me why we put it there. Or the old man that would always accuse us of covering up the "brown" ground beef with "red" ground beef. I and others tried to explain the oxygenation process of meat and blood turning red but it failed to make a dent.
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Dang - you Texans do everything bigger don't ya....250 head as a side business?!?!? Our ranch runs 180 head on about 6000 acres (due to the regrowth speed of the grasses, we have to rotate pastures every year), but they also do corn/wheat/barley/etc.
How about the pakers that paint the meat with the red dye to make it more attractive to buyers....Fred Meyer (Kroeger) does this - even with the certifed angus they sell.
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Originally Posted by zeropointbug
Let's also not forget about our other problems, such as.... did you guys know that the mere 15 largest container ships spew out as much emissions as ALL the worlds car fleet... that's almost unbelievable.
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What's your source on this? A couple weeks ago, you stated that it cruise ships.....
My take on it, if it is in fact true - you need to also realize the efficiency of that emission. Take the ship away, now how do we transport those goods? 10 747 flights? 100 smaller ships? Freight trains have the same power generation system - just on a smaller scale, but to replace those would be a 100 fold increase in semi trucks.
Does anyone know the FACT's about where hydrogen research is now? Have a link to a decent resource on it?