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OGShocker
08-03-2005, 10:46 AM
In San Joaquin Valley, Cows Pass Cars as Polluters
Air district says bovines on the region's booming dairy farms are the biggest single source of smog-forming gases. The industry takes issue.
By Miguel Bustillo, Times Staff Writer
Got smog? :D
California's San Joaquin Valley for some time has had the dirtiest air in the country. Monday, officials said gases from ruminating dairy cows, not exhaust from cars, are the region's biggest single source of a chief smog-forming pollutant.
Every year, the average dairy cow produces 19.3 pounds of gases, called volatile organic compounds, the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District said. Those gases react with other pollutants to form ground-level ozone, or smog.
With 2.5 million dairy cows — roughly one of every five in the country — emissions of almost 20 pounds per cow mean that cattle in the San Joaquin Valley produce more organic compounds than are generated by either cars or trucks or pesticides, the air district said. The finding will serve as the basis for strict air-quality regulations on the region's booming dairy industry.

Jbb
08-03-2005, 10:51 AM
They should stop feeding burritos to them cows.......Moooooooo.....Braaap :jawdrop:

riverracerx
08-03-2005, 10:53 AM
And the tree huggers blame the big trucks and SUV's. Ha! Let them hug a cows ass now!

CandyA$$
08-03-2005, 10:53 AM
Ok What the hell.
:p