<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto">Vegans and Vegetarians might also take it to “keep on the wagon”, so to speak. <br><br><div dir="ltr">SR Ballard</div><div dir="ltr"><br><blockquote type="cite">On Jun 22, 2021, at 8:23 PM, spike jones via extropy-chat <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org> wrote:<br><br></blockquote></div><blockquote type="cite"><div dir="ltr"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"><meta name="Generator" content="Microsoft Word 15 (filtered medium)"><!--[if !mso]><style>v\:* {behavior:url(#default#VML);}
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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">This comes from XKCD, so it must be true:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://xkcd.com/1338/">https://xkcd.com/1338/</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><div><image002.jpg></div><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">It agrees with this:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://www.google.com/search?q=chart+showing+biomass+cows&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=XJjmWBV3BnWowM%252C8Vx0ajCtOBOMiM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kRclN1GsRkt2_eB4YlqCXTsoKwd8w&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5k9LpuqzxAhVU054KHfY1AEoQ9QF6BAgSEAE#imgrc=_CTh_u7wtvFE2M">https://www.google.com/search?q=chart+showing+biomass+cows&tbm=isch&source=iu&ictx=1&fir=XJjmWBV3BnWowM%252C8Vx0ajCtOBOMiM%252C_&vet=1&usg=AI4_-kRclN1GsRkt2_eB4YlqCXTsoKwd8w&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwi5k9LpuqzxAhVU054KHfY1AEoQ9QF6BAgSEAE#imgrc=_CTh_u7wtvFE2M</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">In 2016, a group of scientists suggested that bio-engineering could produce humans who are allergic to beef:<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://twitter.com/i/status/1407258675358715907">https://twitter.com/i/status/1407258675358715907</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">If these scientists manage to insert the DNA from the pathogen in the Lone Star tick which causes bovine protein intolerance, they could perhaps create a virus which is otherwise harmless but causes the infected person to become unable to devour beef. Then they could “accidentally” release it, the virus or pathogen spreads around the globe, demand for beef falls to nearly nothing, most of the herds around the world could be slaughtered, greatly reducing emissions of methane, saving the planet from what our government is telling us is the greatest threat: global warming.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">Of course not all of us accept the notion that global warming is the greatest threat to the planet.<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p> </o:p></p></div><span>_______________________________________________</span><br><span>extropy-chat mailing list</span><br><span>extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</span><br><span>http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</span><br></div></blockquote></body></html>