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You can't really make packaging materials from tough cellulose-y things like bean stalks because mice eat it, you can't really make building materials from it b
by Gordonjcp 4y ago
You can't really make packaging materials from tough cellulose-y things like bean stalks because mice eat it, you can't really make building materials from it because it goes on fire, and because it's tough and made of cellulose it doesn't really break down well in a compost heap.
Do you know what composts that stuff like crazy, though?
Feeding it to cows.
And even better, it reduces methane and carbon dioxide emissions, because you're turning all that carbon into cows instead of just letting bacteria emit it as gas.
- dqv 4y ago>And even better, it reduces methane and carbon dioxide emissions, because you're turning all that carbon into cows instead of just letting bacteria emit it as gas. Cows don't work as carbon sinks if you're killing them every 2 years to eat them. You're just reintroducing that carbon in the form of sewage, transportation, and food waste. They need to be allowed to live all 20 years of their lives for the carbon efficiency argument to work. This necessitates (1) massively reducing the population of livestock by ceasing breeding (otherwise it's hurting any gains with carbon storage in the soil) and (2) finding alternative uses for the inedible byproducts of plant agriculture.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoNothing really works as a carbon sink in the long term. Bear in mind that cows do not actually generate carbon - as with humans, they just move it around.