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From: al@gtx.com (Alan Filipski)
Newsgroups: misc.headlines,sci.bio,sci.skeptic
Subject: Re: More Budget Busters
Message-ID: <1409@gtx.com>
Date: 6 Dec 90 23:13:45 GMT
References: <1990Nov5.103853.10645@pbs.org> <1990Nov5.224851.19579@nntp-server.caltech.edu> <1990Dec4.145421.25102@engin.umich.edu>
Reply-To: al@gtx.UUCP (Alan Filipski)
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In article <1990Dec4.145421.25102@engin.umich.edu> picard@caen.engin.umich.edu (Ronald V Picard) writes:
>In article <1990Nov5.224851.19579@nntp-server.caltech.edu> dicely@nntp-server.caltech.edu (Christopher M. Dicely) writes:
>>btiffany@pbs.org writes:

>>>	*  $19,000,000 to study bovine flatulence.
>>Yes, but recent preliminary studies have revealed that this ("cow gas") may be
>>the most significant contributor to the greenhouse affect, or at least among
>>the more significant ones, and that it may be reducable by dietary changes...

>Sorry, this is a lie put out by the new pro-vegetarian groups.  It is
>a much easier target to say we shouldn't eat meat or the world will be
>destroyed, than convincing us we're immoral for eating meat.
  
>Check out the groups supporting this statement and the obvious solution.

1) Why do you think this is a lie? Was the research funded by vegetarian
interests?  I don't care who *supports* a statement. Hitler supported
fresh air and exercise, but that doesn't make me skeptical about the
value of fresh air and exercise.

2) What "obvious solution" do you mean?

3) BTW, I read "dietary changes" as dietary changes for the cows, not
dietary changes for the humans.  What was the intent?


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