Real Meat is Green - it Eats Grass By Viv Forbes

The Green Wreckers who destroyed Australia’s cheap reliable electricity are now targeting our cattle industry.

They will use fake science and false advertising to destroy our right to produce and consume real meat.

This stupidity relies on a totally false argument that grazing animals cause global warming by releasing carbon dioxide and methane to the atmosphere.

However, grazing animals have already reached “Net Zero”. They add NET ZERO carbon to the environment – they just help to recycle the same carbon, endlessly.

Grasses and crops extract CO2 from the atmosphere and add minerals, water and nutrients from the soil. Then green leaves use sunlight to create plant sugars and release oxygen. All grasses are either eaten by grazing animals and termites, or burnt in bushfires. Then comes the rain, the grasses grow and the cycle starts again.

Cattle harvest these crops and grasses, creating meat, bones and exhaust gases. (That’s real carbon farming.)

Some of the carbon products that cattle eat gets exhausted from both ends as CO2 and methane but not one atom of new carbon is introduced to the atmosphere by grasses, crops or cattle (unless from crops fertilised with lime or dolomite). They are just cogs in the endless carbon cycle that supports all life on Earth.

Contrary to the usual alarms, the atmospheric warming impact of methane is negligible since the few absorption lines of methane are swamped by the absorption bands of the much more abundant water vapour. As physicist Dr Tom Sheahen points out:

"Worrying about methane emissions is the greatest waste of time in the entire lexicon of global warming fanaticism. . . .CH4’s effect is so tiny as to be completely irrelevant.”

Cattle have always served human needs by converting inedible grasses into edible proteins and fats. Their hides make leather, and their bones and waste make fertiliser. Cattle even aid carbon sequestration as their meat gets incorporated into long-lived human bodies which are then buried. (But like all sequestration proposals, burying carbon is anti-life and serves no useful purpose.)

Our hunter-gatherer ancestors treasured meat, supplemented by seasonal fruits, roots and tubers. When threatened by occasional starvation they learned how to process and eat grass seeds. We interfere with this long food heritage at our peril.

Ancient Auroch Cattle
(copyright unknown, but thanks)

Men and cattle share millennia of history. Since the days of Aurochs and Longhorns, Bison and Buffalo, Nguni and Waygu, Yak and Zebu, men have hunted, protected, worshipped, harvested, stolen, milked and farmed Herefords, Shorthorns, Angus, Charolais, Jerseys, Friesians, Guernseys and many other breeds.

But now Green wackos from the aptly named “Extinction Rebellion” plan to ration and tax real meat while fraudulently labelling a manufactured plant-based concoction as “meat”.

Australia has about 26 million cattle producing meat, milk and cream. If meat is rationed why not also ration milk and cream for weet-bix, deserts and cappuccinos?

Why cull Australia’s cattle when India has more than 300 million cattle and lets millions of them roam freely because Hindus consider them sacred?

Why ration red meat in Australia when Brazil alone has more than 230 million cattle and South America’s beef consumption exceeds that of the USA and Australia, in total and per capita?

Why ration red meat in Australia when China, with about 97 million cattle, continually increases its meat consumption?

Even if we wiped all cattle from the face of the Earth, grass growth would explode to feed mammoth bushfires, or be consumed by termites, or just rot - a real Zero Sum game to achieve world starvation. Maybe de-population is their plan?

Here is a message for the cattle haters, people haters and meat counterfeiters:

“Hands -Off  our  Grasslands, our Cattle 
and  our  Real  Meat.”