b'The Great Eastern Mail AUGUST 26, 2022 21viewpointEat beef, save the planetBy Ian Plimer and cattle fertilise grass for furtherWhen Ive snapped mycarbon dioxide is returned to The Spectator Australia recycling of carbon. hobbles and decompose inthe atmosphere. Humans are omnivoresa grave, most of my bodyThe cycle of atmospheric Y ET again, farmers arewith teeth for cutting plantscarbon, including that fromcarbon dioxide via meat under attack. This time,and animal flesh and theneating beef, will be released asproduction and digestion it is the beef industrymasticating to create a largemethane and the rest will endremoves carbon dioxide from because, apparently, cattlesurface area to assist digestion.up sequestered in soils.the atmosphere and then later burp and fart out methane andWe have the gut enzymeBlood and bone from cattlereleases this carbon dioxide well all fry-and-die becausetrypsin specifically foris used as a fertiliser and isback to its source. Whats the of the accelerated globalbreaking down meat. Not allsequestered in soil. Cattleproblem? warming produced by thisplant material can be brokenskins are used to make leatherWhether grass is used to methane. Is this fact or fiction?down into nutrients which iswhich is sequestered intogrow meat, decomposed, In my field of science,why there is little nutritionalfootwear and other leatheror burned, no new carbon we often do mass balancevalue in us eating grass, stems,goods. The whole processatoms are created in this calculations because materialwood, or bark.of going from grass to gravecarbon cycle and, by growing is added, exchanged, and lostUnlike cattle, humansinvolves a carbon cycle andbeef, some carbon atoms are during natural processes. Letscannot digest cellulose inThe beef is digested in mywork out how to get out of theshort-term sequestration ofremoved from the cycle for do the same with the beefgrass. Bacterial and enzymebody because of trypsin whichvehicle! carbon atoms. short-term sequestration.industry. reactions in ruminantsbreaks down meat into aminoSome of the carbon in beefThe number of carbonIt is absolute nonsense Grass grows by usingstomachs release the gasacids for circulation in myI eat is used and stored by myatoms returned to theto claim that beef farming carbon dioxide from the airmethane as burps and fartsbloodstream. Meat fat ends upbody, the rest is oxidised andatmosphere from beefaccelerates hypothetical as plant food. Why do climateduring digestion.as brain food. Vegetarians andexhaled. I breathe in air withfarming is less than thatglobal warming. Carbon activists want to reduce theThis methane, a carbon- vegans ignore the benefits of0.04 per cent carbon dioxideremoved by grass growth.atoms are just being recycled. amount of plant food in thehydrogen compound, veryhuman evolution and wasteand exhale air with more thanTherefore, cattle farmingWe are being conned with a atmosphere? Cattle eat grass,quickly oxidises in thetrypsin by not eating meat.4 per cent carbon dioxide.and eating beef is a carbonscare campaign by unelected some grass remains as rootsatmosphere to carbon dioxideIn evolutionary terms, meat- The gaseous waste productsequestration process. If theclimate activists who want to and stubble, and hence not alland the most abundanteating has allowed the humanfrom cattle digestion ispopular mantra is used, wecontrol every aspect of our carbon atoms in grass end upgreenhouse gas in thebrain to grow over time. In amethane, and the gaseousare saving the planet by eatinglives, including the source of in cattle.atmosphere, water vapour. past life when I took universitywaste product from humanbeef. our animal protein.The carbon from grass isFor me, there is nothingstudent geological field trips,digestion is carbon dioxide.If we do not eat meat, thenIf beef is replaced on the stored in meat, milk, intestines,like medium rare beef with aI noticed that the meat eatersSome of the milk or cream Igrass decomposes anywaymenu by insects, then Ill pass. bones, and skin and thematching red-coloured fluidwere the first to the tops ofuse in coffee and on morningand releases methane intoI will get all my nutrients from amount of stored carbonderived from releasing carbonmountains, vegetarians wereporridge is stored in my fleshthe atmosphere for oxidation47 pints of Guinness, 2 glasses increases with growth. Semi- dioxide into the atmospherestruggling way behind andand bones as is the butterto carbon dioxide and waterof milk, and one of orange solid waste materials fromby grape fermentation.vegans were still trying toused in cooking. vapour. 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