DutchNews, October 4, 2016
Grass: a
new potential power source.
Photo: DutchNews.nl
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Two hundred farmers will soon be generating electricity from cow
manure and there are plans to recruit 1,000 in four years, reports NOS on
Tuesday.
FrieslandCampina, the largest dairy collective in the Netherlands, set
up a business in September called Jumpstart to channel subsidies to farmers who
want to install mono-digesters that break down waste into biogas.
Henk Kamp,
minister for economic affairs, has committed €150m to the project and turned on
the first mono-digester in Friesland on Tuesday morning.
FrieslandCampina plans
to pay farmers a surcharge of €10 per thousand litres of milk they sell if they
buy a mono-digester, and currently works with 13,500 of the Netherland’s 17,000
farmers. The organisation has committed to carbon-neutral growth, and currently
most of the 13% of carbon emissions from the agriculture sector come from
methane released by cow manure.
There has been some debate about whether it is
sustainable to generate electricity from cow dung, since mono-digesters only
become profitable for a farm of at least 150 cattle.
On Monday,
FrieslandCampina announced that it wants to change its profit-sharing scheme
with members, abolishing a quantum allowance and effectively stopping seasonal
payments to farmers. It intends to increase its premium for outdoor grazing to
€1.50 per 100kg of milk (from €1), and final proposals will be agreed in
December.
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(39) Question: Dear Kryon: I've noticed how many children are developing severe allergies to foods (my daughter included). When I've researched this, it seems that most of the allergies are essentially to seeds, grains, legumes, eggs, and dairy. I've noticed that these foods all hold the potential for life, or in the case of dairy, are essentially used to sustain the first stages of life in an animal's baby. My feeling is that because we're not releasing the life force within these foods (that is, sprouting, etc.), they're becoming harmful to us. I would like your impressions of this.
Answer: For thousands of years, these foods have worked for humanity. In these cases you speak about, the main culprit continues to be the way in which these foods are collected and processed. You won't find these allergies in third-world countries, and you won't find them within the children who work on farms, where they eat the foods directly. There will eventually have to come a day when you relax some of your efficiency attributes and go back to the way food was meant to be collected and eaten. And yes... there are effects from how the dairy animals are treated, too. Going back to some basics will help, and so will eliminating some of the procedures that supposedly create a "safer food." These procedures have instead made them begin to look like foreign food to the Human body.
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