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Re: potty-training cows
- To: permaculture
- Subject: Re: potty-training cows
- From: "Ava Devenport" <essenheal@iname.com>
- Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2000 12:6:24
- Newsgroups: permaculture
On 06/06/00, "Mikal Jakubal <mjakubal@asis.com>" wrote:
> If fencing-out the cows is something you decide to do (as at least a
> partial solution), electric wire is probably the cheapest and easiest way
> to do it. The charger units can be run off a small solar panel. The whole
> set-up, panel and all, is widely available and so common as to be fairly
> cheap. The long-run answer, of course, is to educate people, change values,
> change tax laws to give ecological *restoration* tax breaks and so
> on....and eventually get the bloated bovine biodiversity bulldozers off the
> land entirely.
>
> Mikal
Thank you Mikal, this input is invaluable also, and we're definitely going
to work at making 'changes'. The ecological restoration tax break is a
wonderful idea! I'll bet as a community, we may be able get the EPA to
help us regarding the watershed.
Blessings,
Ava