Guest guest Posted October 3, 2006 Report Share Posted October 3, 2006 "Shirin" <shirinzah shit on fire ... COWPILE IS BURNING This story from MILFORD, Neb. (AP) — Cow flesh processor David Dickinson has a big problem on his hands: Dickinson, owner and manager of Midwest Feeding Co. about 20 miles west of Lincoln Nebraska, and Nebraska state officials are trying to figure out what to do about a 2,000-ton pile of burning cow manure on Dickinson’s property.Dickinson’s outfit takes in as many as 12,000 cows at a time from farmers and ranchers and fattens them for market. Each cow eats about 25 pounds of feed daily, resulting in as much as nine pounds of manure a day per animal — some 54 tons every 24 hours. The result: a dung pile measuring 100 feet long, 30 feet high and 50 feet wide that began burning about two months ago and continues to smolder despite Herculean attempts to douse it.While city folks might have trouble imagining a dung pile of such proportions, they are common sites in rural areas. In July, crews fighting a blaze in a three-acre manure lagoon at a dairy farm in Washington smothered the flames with more of the same — a blanket of wet cow manure. In December, Montana officials ordered the owner of a horse feedlot to extinguish a large manure fire that sent a stench over a nearby town.The Nebraska Department of Environmental Quality has informed Dickinson that his smoldering dung pile violates clean-air laws and is working with him to find the best solution to extinguish it, said agency spokesman Rich Webster. Simply dumping water on the heap is not the answer, Webster said, because of concerns about runoff to any nearby water source.Dickinson first tried using heavy equipment to spread out the smoldering pile and extinguish the fire. "But the problem was, it started in another spot," he said. "We've also had the fire department out a couple of times."And still it burns.For a comprehensive statement of facts on the ecological and animal destruction wrought by the meat industry google “how to win an argument with a meat eater” and for a full accounting of animal degradation in the meat industry, animal entertainment, and vivisection go to www.animalsvoice.com. Patricia Breen www.petstorecruelty.org Talk is cheap. Use Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls. Great rates starting at 1¢/min. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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