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Visually inspired heavily by Simon Stålenhag, here's something that came about during last night's doodle session, combining current methods of transporting natural gas in some shitholes remote areas and the biggest producers of natural methane, accounting for some 40% of methane emissions (tbf, that's cows and other livestock combined, but you get the idea).
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The future is now!
If you like what I do, consider checking out my
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Category Artwork (Digital) / Doodle
Species Cervine (Other)
Size 1200 x 720px
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That may be true for some, but it wouldn't be for all. There's no real campaign to force people to eat bugs rather than beef.
Eating bugs will always be a choice. No one's gonna make you do it.
There are people all over the world who have eaten bugs and liked them for millenia.
Eating bugs will always be a choice. No one's gonna make you do it.
There are people all over the world who have eaten bugs and liked them for millenia.
Everything is a choice. Until one day it suddenly isn't, because the goal post was moved. Paranoid/conspiratorial of me? Perhaps. But I do remember how things went from saving the forests to saving the world from excess plastic, and then from excess plastic to carbon blueprints and cow burps. The 'enemy' changes every decade. The outcome? Not.
Yup. Definitely paranoid and conspiratorial.
Science keeps moving forward. Ignoring that does no one any good. Nobody is "Moving goalposts". We're learning things and trying to make the world a better place for us and all of nature that we share it with while we still can. Or at least some of us are...
Science keeps moving forward. Ignoring that does no one any good. Nobody is "Moving goalposts". We're learning things and trying to make the world a better place for us and all of nature that we share it with while we still can. Or at least some of us are...
Because for most of those methods we have filters and capture devices for the methane (among other waste products). That tech is getting better over time but we still have little to nothing for livestock emissions which make up nearly half of all methane emissions just by themselves. That's not even touching on the massive land and water use that factory livestock farming takes up.
The only thing I have to add: opposite to popular belief, cows emit most of the methane as burps, nor farts. So they'd have to wear little mouth bags as well! (or face masks leading back, but then you're close to bovine fetish gear, and that's another bag (ha) of weirdness).
Still, a surreal and futuristic picture, I love it.
Still, a surreal and futuristic picture, I love it.
If it makes you feel better, cow methane production can be significantly reduced by changing their diet.
There are some feed additives on the market and it's an area of active research.
Lab grown meat is also making progress, which if it pans out will be nice from both an ethics and environmental impact point of view while still putting actual beef on your plate. May even be cheaper once the tech matures and economies of scale kick in.
There are some feed additives on the market and it's an area of active research.
Lab grown meat is also making progress, which if it pans out will be nice from both an ethics and environmental impact point of view while still putting actual beef on your plate. May even be cheaper once the tech matures and economies of scale kick in.
Oh don't confuse me into one side or the other, these massive factory farms are definitely putting things into the feed and may be causing more but I'm not really concerned about methane production either.
Smaller farms and natural fed livestock is best (was raised as a farmer myself) and speaking of lab meat... there is no comparison to the real stuff as what we feed and how the animal lives drastically changes the products taste.
Smaller farms and natural fed livestock is best (was raised as a farmer myself) and speaking of lab meat... there is no comparison to the real stuff as what we feed and how the animal lives drastically changes the products taste.
Methane production from cattle is actually a surprisingly serious problem, since methane is far worse than CO2 as a source of carbon per unit in the atmosphere, and there are so many cattle. It's yet another reason why beef is particularly problematic.
Beyond that, all cattle farming is problematic because of the environmental destruction it causes, and the amount of feed used.
And actually, seaweed has proven to be an incredibly effective feed additive to reduce the methane from cattle burps, It's used in relatively small amounts and doesn't effect the taste.
We should be harvesting the seaweed raft about to swamp Florida and processing it for this purpose, but of course that won't happen..
Beyond that, all cattle farming is problematic because of the environmental destruction it causes, and the amount of feed used.
And actually, seaweed has proven to be an incredibly effective feed additive to reduce the methane from cattle burps, It's used in relatively small amounts and doesn't effect the taste.
We should be harvesting the seaweed raft about to swamp Florida and processing it for this purpose, but of course that won't happen..
Well, lab grown meat is in early stages of experimentation anyway, they're not too concerned about taste yet, the main issue is, that in a 3D environment grown tissue samples end up being quite flat, which is a larger concern for them. They need to figure out how to pull this off properly, before they can start to think about those other issues.
Hah that's a really interesting visual! The fart pillars make them easiert to spot I bet!
Could one call it... Eco-Punk?
Methane isn't so much lighter than air, but it could be enough to keep this very light looking sack afloat and certainly won't cause any cows to float away, hahaha xD
I remember seeing a real-world example of these collection balloons and I think to remember they actually puncture a part of their intestine to drain the methane, with the bag strapped on the cows back like a kind of rucksack.
Could one call it... Eco-Punk?
Methane isn't so much lighter than air, but it could be enough to keep this very light looking sack afloat and certainly won't cause any cows to float away, hahaha xD
I remember seeing a real-world example of these collection balloons and I think to remember they actually puncture a part of their intestine to drain the methane, with the bag strapped on the cows back like a kind of rucksack.
Heh. Funny. But a more centralized methane digestor would be easier than trying to produce methane. And if you're worried about atmosphere methane I do recall something about reports that you can cut back on gaseous 'emissions' by feeding the cows certain kinds of seaweed to stabilized their digestion.
And did you know that it takes 1850 gallons of water to make one pound of beef? The water that just disappears into nowhere, might I add! Like, the cows drink it, and that's it, it's gone forever.
Bottom line, cows are a danger to all life and must be exterminated with prejudice.
[SUPERMASSIVE SARCASM]
Bottom line, cows are a danger to all life and must be exterminated with prejudice.
[SUPERMASSIVE SARCASM]
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