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I read an interesting article today that has little to do with Project Skinny Bitch and more to do with the actual book’s claims about cattle flatulence and climate change.  This was  a subject in the book I skipped right over because I wasn’t sure if I bought it and I was already overcome with too much realization about the abusive treatment of animals on factory farms.

This story goes into some detail about how the flatulence and waste is actually more of a problem to climate change than transportation, and what some farmers are doing away with the danger factor and turning all that gas and waste into something good.

For all the good being done here, I see a potential conflict rising between the animal rights activists and the advocates for a greener earth, whereas these two groups would ordinarily seem to support eachother. 

In an effort to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions, people are being encouraged to eat less beef and cheese, while choosing chicken instead.  Meanwhile, to reduce animal cruelty, many animal activists promote that giving up chicken will have the bigger effect on lowering the instances of animal cruelty. Of course the simple solution is to quit eating both, but it is just not that easy to expect everyone to do, no matter how simple the original Skinny Bitches, my heroes, would have us believe. 

Click here for the interesting story of how cattle byproducts are being used for electricity while cleaning up the environment.

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