[Terrapreta] Cows/animals - farts/burping-charcoal and/or parsley?

[David Yarrow]

rather profound musings, michael.  the soil is the intestines of the land -- a vast digestive tissue swallowing all that lived and dies.  in our own intestines we carry perhaps five pounds of digestive micro-organisms.  what might a bit of charcoal do for that internal intestinal soil?  well, if we are the world, charcoal seems to be another universal remedy, along with sea minerals, whole grain seeds, fresh vegetables, and compost.

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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Michael Bailes 
  To: Terrapreta 
  Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 7:22 PM
  Subject: [Terrapreta] Cows/animals - farts/burping-charcoal and/or parsley?


  I am reading a detective story at the moment by Gerald Hammond "Dead Letters". 
  One character is a dog who farts.
  The owner feeds her charcoal and parsley to stop the farting.

  I note that charcoal is added to a lot of animal food products. 
  For example :-
  I talked to a Chinese charcoal dealer and he said he was selling a lot to Asian Chicken farms. He was a bit unclear about why but he said it made the chickens "better"?

  Would charcoal have any effects on cow farting or belching do you think? 
  It is NZ's major source of greenhouse gas (30-40%)(methane?).and about 20% in many other countries.

  -- 
  Michael the Archangel

  "You can fix all the world's problems in a garden. . . . 
  Most people don't know that"
  FROM
  http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-content/permaculture.swf 


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