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donsu (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-15-08 12:51 PMOriginal message 40,000 head of livestock dead due to winter storm http://hisz.rsoe.hu/alertmap/woalert_read.php?cid=15404... More than 40,000 head of livestock have been killed in harsh winter weather which has left around 90 percent of Mongolia buried under a blanket of snow. Local media said Friday that animals had died due to a lack of food caused by the adverse weather. In some places the snow is up to 25 centimeters deep. The reports said the Mongolian government was working to reduce the damage to the farming industry, which is one of the most important sectors of the country's economy. More than 40 million livestock are bred in Mongolia.) ---------------------------a world of less and less
ET Awful (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-15-08 12:56 PMResponse to Original message 1. To put that in perspective - In the US, 25 million cattle are slaughtered per year. Roughly 68,000 per day.
donsu (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-15-08 12:57 PMResponse to Reply #1 2. how do the two compare?
bobbolink (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-15-08 01:00 PMResponse to Original message 3. How many homeless people with frostbite, or frozen to death?
shireen (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-15-08 01:02 PMResponse to Reply #3 4. i think about them when it gets really cold. So sad.
Ilsa (1000+ posts) Fri Feb-15-08 01:05 PMResponse to Original message 5. Is nature "taking out" some parts of the carbon track?
More than 40,000 head of livestock have been killed in harsh winter weather which has left around 90 percent of Mongolia buried under a blanket of snow.
Is it wrong to sit here and daydream about a massive BBQ when I read stuff like that?