Few, if any, envisioned the day when Chicken Little could put his worries to rest and just do his business knowing that, with a little help from an innovative poultry farmer, his poop was as good as gold.
Then consider Josh Frye among the few.
The West Virginia poultry farmer has tinkered and toyed with a contraption that contains, heats and converts poultry waste into energy to heat his barns. The byproduct of that process is “biochar” – which is a naturally organic fertilizer. The upside of biochar is that it doesn’t release greenhouse gasses from waste into the atmosphere. Instead, the carbon is contained in the waste and the biochar can be used to fertilize and fuel other green plants that naturally suck more carbon out of the atmosphere. Call it a natural win-win for Mother Nature.
Then consider that Al Gore – the mastermind behind “An Inconvenient Truth” – calls biochar “one of the most exciting new strategies” available to stop climate change, with other environmentalists, scholars and legislators also recognizing its potential.
Imagine…manure to save the planet and environmentalism home grown on the family farm. It’s a far cry from the doom and gloom some groups are quick to suggest about animal agriculture, with solutions that are as equally unimaginative as they are short-sighted and impractical.
Ingenuity, innovation and hard work. Traits synonymous with the family farmer…or the bureaucrat? You decide.
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In case you missed it, the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) recently announced it purchased shares in Domino’s Pizza, thus making it a shareholder and giving the activist group a voice at shareholder meetings. But this is hardly news.
Domino’s is just one of nearly 40 food-related companies in which HSUS has become a shareholder. Any good investment advisor worth his salt might suggest that HSUS is putting all its eggs in one basket, which makes for bad investing. But unlike the average investor, HSUS isn’t interested in return on investment as we know it.
The end goal is simple and one in which they openly admit: pressure dozens of restaurants, grocery chain and food providers to change their purchasing practices away from farmers that HSUS philosophically disagrees with. And with tens of millions of dollars in their coffers, you can see why such a strategy makes sense to them, and should begin to incense the rest of the public…especially if you thought that a donation to this Humane Society was going solely to help kittens and puppies.
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…it’s just as likely that it was the PETA principle that gave him pause this morning.
Yes, everyone’s favorite groundhog – Punxsutawney Phil – opted for six more weeks of winter this morning. But with all the activists lurking about and hoping to pry him from the “good life” and replace him with a robotic stand-in, can you really blame him for wanting to burrow in?
Find out more about Phil’s big day and PETA’s proposed stunt here.
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