You lay the blame on my cows and pull to the Thailand
dairy farmer: It is not we, but the flights that are the threat to the climate
This is an opinion piece. It is the writer who stands for the views that are put forward in the text, not the newspaper Aftonbladet.
DEBATE. Thursday 17 november. I had just come in from our room was exquisite. Fed, mockat and cuddled on my cows and wished them a good evening.\a few of them muade absent-mindedly to answer, while the other lay silent and idisslade. They looked happy out and I closed the ladugårdsdörren with joy in the heart. Joy to have such a fun and meaningful job where I, along with my cows, sheep produce both the food and the open landscape.
After a quick shower dråsade I’m down in the couch just in time for \
I thought that the viewers deserve to know how it really is.\nFå see the whole picture.\nTanken struck me – how had I answered if I had been interviewed in the SVT?\nJo, I had said:\n”It is true that livestock produce methane, but it accounts for only five per cent of the total emissions of greenhouse gases in the world. However, the fossil sources for the entire 75 per cent of the emissions of greenhouse gases in the world, according to the UN’s climate panel, the IPCC.”\nJag had continued:\n”Even if all the people in the whole world would stop eating food so we would still not reach the two-degree target. It is the emissions of carbon dioxide that needs to be reset, according to new research from the Chalmers university of technology.”\sink had I strained the eyes of the viewers:n”A trip to Thailand generates approximately 2.5 tons of greenhouse gases per person, according to the Royal Institute of technology, KTH. Yes, you heard right, per person”, I had said and continued:\n”This is more than a whole year’s supply of food for a swede gives rise to, according to the environmental protection agency. Think about it, when you go to Bangkok for christmas.”\nMen that last had been for the bitter medicine and cut away, I thought while I slurpade in me last slug of coffee with milk.
Yes, I actually got angry there for a moment in the couch.\nJag thought:\n”it’s not journalists ‘ job to find out the facts? And why is the cows to the scapegoats at the same time as the middle class goes as skottspolar between Sweden and Thailand? Then the talk no about the carbon footprint?”\nMen so, I closed of the tv, got up from the couch and looked out over the courtyard and the barn.\nLadugården, where my co-workers, the cows quietly munched on silage, unaware of which hello the creating of the group that has the preferential right of interpretation in Sweden of the day. Journalists, politicians and proffstyckare. An elite which has no apparent roots in the countryside.
the Idea of the cows lowered my pulse rate. Yes, these peaceful animals have a beneficial effect.\nPlötsligt I saw the thing from the other side.\nSå here: \
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Anette Gustawson, mjölkföretagare in Norrtälje
Why is it okay to provide one of the world’s most useful animal, wondering debater. The latest in the new york times got the cows blamed for high emissions of greenhouse gases. The cow’s carbon footprint is relatively small, unlike, for example, emissions from Thailandsresor. Think about it, when you are sitting in the plane on the way to Bangkok for christmas, writes Anette Gustawson.
