NY Attorney General Letitia James Sues World’s
Largest Beef Producer
NY AG Letitia James deserves tremendous
credit for intent and a severe scolding for her concurrent sin of
omission.
She correctly states that current beef
production emits the bulk of New York's environmental methane. Then
she concurrently and shamefully omits the fact the ruminants are not
responsible for its accumulation. The crime of methane accumulation
accrues to New York's soil industry and the vested interests in the
pharmaceutics and heavy equipment industries that have corrupted
those soil managers.
The methano-phagic organisms that
naturally return environmental methane to the soil by default, die in
soils with less than 4% carbon. Healthy NY soil contains 7% carbon.
Most contemporary NY soil barely maintains 1%. Those essential
methano-phagic organisms have been destroyed by three multi-billion
dollar predatory and biocidal industries:
machinery that breaks and inverts
soil to a depth greater than 4 inches;
chemical pesticides that finish
killing any soil organisms that survive the ploughing; and
chemical fertilizers
re-administered every year.
I sincerely admire AG James' courage in
taking on the powerful beef industry.
I cringe at the cowardice, or perhaps
the intellectual laziness, that criminalizes the ruminants rather
than the predatory conditions under which they are raised.
That omission is all the more
scandalous, nay criminal itself, when those innocent ruminants
actually represent the solution to, not the cause of environmental
methane accumulation. Ruminants freed from feed lots, returned to
pasture under regimes of skilfully managed grazing, both till with
their hooves to the ideal depth of four inches and, along with other
restored organisms, fertilize and replenish soil to the requisite 7%
carbon.
When Ms James re-allocates her quota of
legislative and enforcement courage to banning or severely
restricting petroleum based heavy equipment tillage, banning or
severely restricting big-pharma pesticides, and banning or severely
restricting big-pharma fertilizers, she will have graduated from
difficult, but still cliché logical fallacy, to the truly
heroïc.
