Re: EPA, Factory Farms Strike Pollution Deal

[Guest guest]

This is a disaster for the people who live downwind/downstream from

these plants.

A few months ago I read a study of people exposed to low-levels of

gasses offvented from these huge factory farms. They have a plethora

of symptoms that resemble those from mold exposure.. And the

nitrogenous waste products (i.e. poo, etc.) go into the groundwater

and cause major problems..

What a nightmare..

A few weeks ago I read an article about some Dutch people who have

developed a way to make meat without necessitating the killing of

animals.. Basically, they grow it (muscle tissue) in sheets and feed

it amino acids.. They 'exercise' it with pulsed elecctric current to

improve its flavor..

Its expensive now, but if you consider the *whole* cost to society, it

looks better and better all the time.. especially as it carries no

rish of mad cow disease or its relatives..

They think that in a few years, they will have the cost down to where

they can begin to compete with killed animal meat.

That would be very cool. Meat without the need to raise animals to

kill them, and without the huge inefficiencies and pollution problems

that industrial farming necessitates..

[Guest guest]

For you old sci fi fans Chicken little has come home to roost

>

> This is a disaster for the people who live downwind/downstream from

> these plants.

>

> A few months ago I read a study of people exposed to low-levels of

> gasses offvented from these huge factory farms. They have a

plethora

> of symptoms that resemble those from mold exposure.. And the

> nitrogenous waste products (i.e. poo, etc.) go into the groundwater

> and cause major problems..

>

> What a nightmare..

>

> A few weeks ago I read an article about some Dutch people who have

> developed a way to make meat without necessitating the killing of

> animals.. Basically, they grow it (muscle tissue) in sheets and

feed

> it amino acids.. They 'exercise' it with pulsed elecctric current

to

> improve its flavor..

>

> Its expensive now, but if you consider the *whole* cost to

society, it

> looks better and better all the time.. especially as it carries no

> rish of mad cow disease or its relatives..

>

> They think that in a few years, they will have the cost down to

where

> they can begin to compete with killed animal meat.

>

> That would be very cool. Meat without the need to raise animals to

> kill them, and without the huge inefficiencies and pollution

problems

> that industrial farming necessitates..

>

[Guest guest]

Here is the website of the company that I was thinking about originally:

http://www.new-harvest.org/default.php