The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand

This is monumentally short sighted. The day will come when we welcome a mob of cattle wandering down the street the same way we greet Mr Whippy's ice cream van. Everybody will get out a bucket and spade for a dose of cow poo to inoculate the compost heap with cellulose eating microbes. I also think we should use trained cattle to do fire hazard reduction of scrub near suburbs. Those who say we need burnoffs obviously don't have asthmatic kids. If necessary give the cows Laxettes to flush out the weed seeds before allowing them onto park land.

Eventually the role of free range cattle may be less for meat and more for ecological services.