From my 'I'm not making this up file.'

[Roscoe]

Norway's Moose Population in Trouble for Belching
The poor old Scandinavian moose is now being blamed for climate change, with researchers in Norway claiming that a grown moose can produce 2,100 kilos of methane a year -- equivalent to the CO2 output resulting from a 13,000 kilometer car journey.



Now poor moose are being blamed for global warming.

Norway is concerned that its national animal, the moose, is harming the climate by emitting an estimated 2,100 kilos of carbon dioxide a year through its belching and farting.

Norwegian newspapers, citing research from Norway's technical university, said a motorist would have to drive 13,000 kilometers in a car to emit as much CO2 as a moose does in a year.

Much like cows (more...), bacteria in a moose's stomach create methane gas which is considered even more destructive to the environment than carbon gas. Cows pose the same problem.

Norway has some 120,000 moose but an estimated 35,000 are expected to be killed in this year's moose hunting season, which starts on September 25, Norwegian newspaper VG reported.

http://www.spiegel.de/international/...501145,00.html

[cobra de capell]

Roscoe - so, will you start eating moose to cut down on this problem?

[Silverback51]

Send me some moose meat. I love it.

[Wes Tausend]

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The really great thing about Moose is that they produce methane from vegetation that they have eaten, which degrades to CO2. The vegetation, of course, absorbed CO2 while growing, freshening our atmosphere with oxygen in the process. The net result is zero greenhouse gas.

So a car that travels 13,000 km and also uses renewable sources also has net zero emissions. Which is why we need to get away from fossil fuels. Course fossil fuels were once plants too... so we could return their CO2 to the atmosphere and just live with the horrible heat, high seawater table and low oxygen like the planet used to have eons ago.

But it might not be a good place for modern humans anymore, so... Ain't Savin' the Planet convenient?

Eat Moose...or not.

P.S. They'll give you gas.


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[4RE KLR]

Moose is very good. Tender, lean and tasty

[Roscoe]

Like Elk......Better than beef.

Roscoe

[4RE KLR]

Yes sir it sure is.

Some people cringe at the thought of eating Elk and Moose (my wife) but after I tricked her into tasting it she actually liked it better than beef.

[trularin]

I am about out of Elk, Running low on Boar and Deer. Haven't had moose in years.

Hunting season is coming up.

[Roscoe]

Well here's my story....I have a friend out in Wyoming. Been out there twice for Mule Deer and Elk. So I hit Newark Airport with about 100 lbs of butchered frozen Elk. My wife says "What the hell do you plan to do with THAT?" So I farm it out.....10 lbs here, 20 lbs there.

I cook it up little by little either at my place or a friends. I bought a game cookbook out in Wyoming and one day I took the neck meat that I had ground up with beef suet and made a meat loaf with wild rice in it. Didn't tell the wife. She ate half of it and, after I told her what it was, said "Don't cook anymore of this unless I'm there."

End of story,
Roscoe

[4RE KLR]

Pretty much the same here.

My wife would not even listen to me talk about it. I have a friend that goes to Canada every year and hunts. He brought back a very large Moose. Of course it had already been processed. He make this chili and then grilled some thick steaks. My Lord it was good. I knew what it was and did not tell my wife until after she had tried it and kept telling my buddy how good it was.

Well after we were done with dinner Clay told her it was Moose. I thought she would kill us both, but she actually said it was good and she would have never tried it any other way. She has not asked for it again but did enjoy the meal.

Of course I knew if she was real serious about not trying it I would have never forced it on her either or anyone else for that matter. My son also loved it and my daughter still tells me it was terrible.

I do not hunt. My father was a big hunter and I enjoyed going with him. Truth of the matter is I do not know how to field dress the animal and I would not kill something for sport. If I was hunting with someone that knew what he was doing after the kill I would do so. I also admit I am not too old to learn how. I just never did. I know my limitations and wouldn't kill something just for the sake of killing it.

Unless it was a snake.

[Roscoe]

You mean a lawyer?

Roscoe

[imagine2frolic]

Roscoe, I am choking with LAUGHTER!!!!!!

[4RE KLR]

Yea Roscoe, I stand corrected. I told you I can't spell.

Snake, Lawyer what's the difference?

Sorry Jamo