BBC reports that:
The high temperatures over the past fortnight have led to the deaths of some 25,000 cattle in central California, about 1% of the state's dairy herd. "The timing is horrendous," Andy Zylstra, president of the California Dairy Campaign, told the French news agency, AFP. "The price of milk is down 30% while feed, fuel, electricity prices are all up, and now we have these tremendous losses. It's just a kick in the head." Several California counties have declared states of emergency because of the large number of carcasses that need to be disposed of.
OK. Several counties in California -- the world's 7th largest economy -- have declared a stateof emergency because of the large number of carcasses of dairy cattle that need to be disposed of. I'm going to say this slowly and in short words of not-too-many syllables. So many dairy cows are dying that they can't dispose of their carcasses quicly enough. They are dying from the extreme heat caused by global climate change. Global climate change is caused by carbon emmissions -- from cars, factories, power plants.
We're killing off our milk cows faster than we can cart their dead bodies off. The dead bodies are piling up and creating an emergency situation.
Anybody? Someone? The president? Congress? Homeland Security? Department of Agriculture? Department of Energy? Knock, knock! Anybody home??? Someone think maybe we should do something about this? Sound like a problem to anyone? No? OK, then. Go on reproducing and using oil. Maybe next Summer we'll chat about this again.
2 comments:
You can eat dairy cattle. They're beef like the other ones. Seems to me that's a logistics and stupidity problem...
That said, I don't recommend drinking milk in any case. The adult human organism isn't really built to digest lactose very well, and who knows what kind of other crap is in American milk?
Vultures gotta eat.
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