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The elephants in the room, or a direct way to reduce greenhouse gas emissions : Comments
By Monika Merkes, published 27/1/2011One man's meat is all mankinds' carbon dioxide. Reducing our consumption of meat would do the world a favour.
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Posted by Clownfish, Saturday, 29 January 2011 6:51:44 PM
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I would also be curious to know if the author advocates organic production?
Posted by Clownfish, Saturday, 29 January 2011 9:47:44 PM
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For instance, on the subject of alleged antibiotic resistance, the author should be aware that antibiotics are not routinely used in meat production in Australia.
When antibiotics *are* used to treat infections in animals, in the dairy industry at least there are strict protocols for how long cows have to be "off the vat", while antibiotics are in their system. Any farmer tempted to try and cheat the system quickly loses out, as dairy wholesalers test every batch of milk, and contaminated milk is dumped and not paid for.