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You all will find this article interesting:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la- ... n-leftrail

I found it on noimpactman's blog.

Comments?

Seems like a good article to me, but I was already on board with this. I wonder how their readers will respond?

Thanks for posting this.

Thanks for the link. Really good article.

Good to see this type of information in a mainstream publication. I interpret that this was a "Times" editorial, right?

I, too, wonder what kind of response, if any, statements like this in the article stirred up? (emphasis mine):
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"The U.S. Department of Agriculture assesses ranchers, dairymen and producers of other commodities to pay for marketing campaigns to promote their products, raising millions of dollars a year and turning such slogans as "Got Milk?" and "Beef: It's What's for Dinner" into national catchphrases. This isn't quite tantamount to a government-mandated campaign to promote cigarette smoking, but it's close. The government should not only get out of the business of promoting unhealthful and environmentally destructive foods, it should be actively discouraging them."

Thanks for the link. Interesting sentence in the middle of the article:

Scientists are also trying to develop new varieties of feed grasses that are more energy efficient and thus generate less methane, and they are experimenting with targeted breeding to produce a less-gassy strain of cattle.

I may just be getting too jaded for my own good, but I wouldn't be surprised if this "targeted breeding" also involves some artificial genetic manipulation.

Chile,

I'm pretty sure it would. That part really scares me. it is amazing that they can't see another way, such as what we do.