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2007-12-06 Science & Technology
Eco-friendly kangaroo farts could help global warming: scientists
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Posted by tu3031 2007-12-06 10:59|| || Front Page|| [5 views ]  Top

#1 "Roos", pocket meals, soon at McD's. Jumpn' on it. Be eco conscious. :)
Posted by Procopius2k 2007-12-06 12:07||   2007-12-06 12:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Ok; James, let's divide the tasks. You are going to study kangaroo farts in very aspect (smell included) and I will study real close the mysterious growth of Australian women's breasts. (announced in Rantburg a few days ago).
Posted by JFM">JFM  2007-12-06 12:12||   2007-12-06 12:12|| Front Page Top

#3 Australians should farm fewer cattle and sheep and just eat more kangaroos.

But kangaroos are neither kosher nor halal. That's 1.018 billion non-customers right there. Of course, as Angie Shultz pointed out yesterday, the 0.018 billion Jews get a carbon dioxide offset for the Othodox not driving or using electricity on the Sabbath, but that's nothing to do with methane. Oh, well.
Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife  2007-12-06 14:33||   2007-12-06 14:33|| Front Page Top

#4 YJCMTSU.

(hokay, Barbara, you fire up the popcorn popper and i'll hook up the karaoke machine to the PA system...)
Posted by Querent 2007-12-06 14:42||   2007-12-06 14:42|| Front Page Top

#5 Now hold on sec, TW! Where it says kangaroo is not kosher?
Posted by twobyfour 2007-12-06 19:30||   2007-12-06 19:30|| Front Page Top

#6 Land animals have to have split hooves and chew their cud, twobyfour. Kangaroo doesn't have to be specifically forbidden, since it doesn't fall into the set of permitted animals. The laws of kosher as outlined in the Bible are pretty simple: of the birds, no carrion eaters or birds of prey; of the creatures of the sea, only those with both fins and scales; of the creatures of the land, only those that have split hooves and chew their cud, although pigs are specifically forbidden despite falling outside that set; of the insects, only that locust native to the land of Israel. All fruits, vegetables, and grains are permitted (I don't recall any mention of fungi one way or another -- I don't think the Hebrews were aware that they are a different Kingdom). No mind-altering substances are forbidden on that ground, so long as they are within the permitted sets. There are a few laws about preparation, such as not cooking a kid in its mother's milk.

All the rest, such as separate dishes for meat and milk, are rules made up by the rabbis to prevent inadvertently breaking one of the laws.
Posted by trailing wife">trailing wife  2007-12-06 20:24||   2007-12-06 20:24|| Front Page Top

#7 #4 Querent - Extra butter? :-D


"Australian scientists are trying to give kangaroo-style stomachs to cattle and sheep"

Eeewwwwwww. Where's PETA when you really need them?
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