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Originally Posted by mobertol
Never really followed the Archers Sue -but as for methane digesters they are a highly contentious subject.
To keep them going you don't just need the "Poop" that has been scooped. They end up having to top them up with high quality maize which is at a premium and it just isn't financially viable. As an alternative, in N. Europe they mince up the remains of animals that die on farms and feed that in ...not a nice reality and will probably have the animal rights folk up in arms -but that is he reality of this particular science. The digesters cost millions to set up (many of which come from EU grants to agriculture) and run so ...at the end of the day they are not a viable "ecological" option for now at least.
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Well you've got to get rid of dead animals somehow, whether the animal rights people like it or not.
We used to take our dead goats to the hunt kennels to be fed to the hungry pack of hounds...