Comments on: Government Caught Leaving Millions of Dollars Along Roadsides http://www.rufa.org/wordpress/2008/05/01/government-caught-leaving-millions-of-dollars-along-roadsides/ a technology blog and more Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:28:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Eric http://www.rufa.org/wordpress/2008/05/01/government-caught-leaving-millions-of-dollars-along-roadsides/#comment-35 Eric Sat, 02 Aug 2008 17:38:19 +0000 http://www.rufa.org/wordpress/?p=32#comment-35 Oh, you were speaking allegorically. I guess I can put my rake back in the garage. Oh, you were speaking allegorically. I guess I can put my rake back in the garage.

]]> By: OckerBill http://www.rufa.org/wordpress/2008/05/01/government-caught-leaving-millions-of-dollars-along-roadsides/#comment-30 OckerBill Fri, 02 May 2008 02:33:19 +0000 http://www.rufa.org/wordpress/?p=32#comment-30 In outback Australia during times of drought like we've had recently, farmers whose grass has all died and are who are out of hay and can no longer afford to buy feed will drive their cattle or sheep along "the long paddock", i.e. the grass that survives along the side of the road, camping with their flock for weeks at a time. You don't need a drought to take advantage of the Long Paddock, and you can get the grass without paying a penny for fuel, and without polluting the air with toxic petrochemical exhausts. Consider also the benefit to the land from free fertiliser which is spread out with minimaal or no human effort, to decompose naturally instead of putrify in concentrated feedlot cess-pools at factory farms. Add to these benefits that if you walk animals to their natural food, grass, you don't have to devote acres and acres to growing grain as feed (which causes health problems for ruminants anyway). Traffic of course has to slow down, warned by movable road-signs placed at either end of the herd/flock. However, this is a small price to pay for living less wastefully and more harmoniously with nature - something modern oil-powered society has largely forgotten about, and which may one day be forced by necessity to re-learn. In outback Australia during times of drought like we’ve had recently, farmers whose grass has all died and are who are out of hay and can no longer afford to buy feed will drive their cattle or sheep along “the long paddock”, i.e. the grass that survives along the side of the road, camping with their flock for weeks at a time.

You don’t need a drought to take advantage of the Long Paddock, and you can get the grass without paying a penny for fuel, and without polluting the air with toxic petrochemical exhausts. Consider also the benefit to the land from free fertiliser which is spread out with minimaal or no human effort, to decompose naturally instead of putrify in concentrated feedlot cess-pools at factory farms. Add to these benefits that if you walk animals to their natural food, grass, you don’t have to devote acres and acres to growing grain as feed (which causes health problems for ruminants anyway).

Traffic of course has to slow down, warned by movable road-signs placed at either end of the herd/flock. However, this is a small price to pay for living less wastefully and more harmoniously with nature - something modern oil-powered society has largely forgotten about, and which may one day be forced by necessity to re-learn.

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