You Vill Eet Ze Bugs, and You Vill Like Them...or Else

 Anony Mee (an obvious pseudonym if there ever was one) has an interesting article today at the American Thinker entitled Don't They Know That Crickets Fart Too? The point of the article is that everything that lives and eats produces carbon dioxide as a result of bacteria in its microbiome breaking down food for nutrients. That includes, oh by the way, bugs. All of this CO2 is simply recycled. There is no new CO2 coming into the system as a result of this bacterial action, and that includes cows.  Some science training would be helpful for people hoping to be our new scavenger class.

What is interesting, and I certainly did not know this, is that the raising of cattle is both a gateway into small farming, and has profound meaning for black ranchers.

Because I’ve written on this subject before, woke greenies should note that half of America’s Black farmers raise beef as their primary agricultural commodity. No other product even comes close. They do so on small farms/ranches of around 125 acres, on average. Beef ranching is also the gateway into farm life. More young and entry-level farmers engage in beef production than any other ag activity. Beef is also a small farm activity. One-third of all beef operations are carried out on less than 50 acres, and over half of all such farms have fewer than 50 cattle.

Before Americans jump, especially with taxpayer funds and supportive legislation, into slaughtering the beef industry just to raise up another living creature-based food let’s make sure we look at the whole cost to society as well as to the environment. Besides, crickets fart too.

Gentle readers will want to read the whole article for the other tid bits contained therein. For example, Mee explores the environmental costs of putting ethanol into our gasoline. This was a stroke of "genius" that came out of the Carter era gasoline crisis, and lives on as a legislative "gift" to the corn farmers. But over all, Anony Mee points out that this attempt to change our eating habits has nothing to do with saving the planet and everything to do with control.