[Terrapreta] methane, cowfarts and charcoal in the feedlot

[Larry Williams]

this is the type of thinking worth exploring, thanks geoff...


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On Mar 1, 2008, at 11:05 PM, geoff moxham wrote:

> Hi Sean, list-folks,
> all this talk of methane and feedlots reminded me of the idea I had a
> few weeks ago. I was web-searching charcoal and found the medical uses
> for charcoal: in the emergency ward for snake bite, VOC ingestion and
> poisons that can't use emetics. There was the well known addition that
> the healthfood industry promotes it for REDUCING FLATULANCE and
> cleansing.
> Could it be that we could inspire some research into feelot food
> having ? 5%? char powder...maybe it could the soft char from the
> stovers from their corn?
> Then it would inoculated in their gut and sequestered in every cow pat
> recycled as fertiliser/compost. Even better if it could go in feedbins
> for free-ranging cattle and they could then distibute it in the
> pasture. Sort of above-ground worms for the  "magical renewing '
> aspect of terrapreta.  Maybe the cattle would even get better.
> regards
> Geoff TDH
> (the defiant hippie)
>
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