Comments on: ECO FLOORS MADE FROM COW POO!

By: gary segal

gary segal — Sat, 06 Sep 2008 15:26:22 +0000

Please can some one help me I am looking for the method on making these cow Dug floors I would greatly appreciate if someone can help me
Greetings from Africa

By: kim

kim — Sun, 29 Jul 2007 08:40:25 +0000

My 11 year old son is writing a speech on global warming & we were researching the effects of cows on the environment. Whilst surfing we found your article & think it is a fantastic advance in for the disposal of cow poo. Keep up the good work & hope that one day all particle board is made using it.

By: Stef

Stef — Mon, 02 Apr 2007 14:18:55 +0000

Does anyone know how the floors are made ?

By: Dan Wodarcyk

Dan Wodarcyk — Sun, 01 Apr 2007 18:17:57 +0000

The even greater breakthrough will be when the resins are eliminated, but important work nonetheless.

By: Stef

Stef — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 14:20:13 +0000

Fantastic innovation – curiuos to know if the process is PATENTED ?

By: Eduardo Athayde

Eduardo Athayde — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:50:57 +0000

We are interested to partner with MSU for researches and experiments on “Eco floors from cow poo”, specially with green biding agents.
Eduardo Athayde
UMA-Atlantic Forest Open University
Director
Worldwatch Institute – Brazil
http://www.worldwatch.org
phone 55-71-81811695
e-mail: eduardo@uma.org.br

By: Nitin

Nitin — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 18:01:47 +0000

In buffalo and cow dung cakes have been used for generations as fuel. It is also used in India as a surfacing material and actually is very pleasant, cool in the hot summers.

By: Bill

Bill — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 16:56:32 +0000

I found a product called ‘Bovine Board’ several years ago. I don’t belive it is still in development. I have recieved a sample, from Iowa State University. I’d check the CV of the lead prof. at MSU. Maybe the same person?

By: Lee

Lee — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 17:59:25 +0000

Richie, you better check some facts, Feeding cattle feed containing Cattle is illegal( that how mad cow spreads). Using manure is probable older then domestic cattle every thing from fertilizer, fuel, those little flower potts and as Ali points out houses. I thinks it great that these students have made a flooring product or would you rather use just leave the manure in a big toxic pool that seeps into the cattle’s water supply.

As for the MSU students “inventing”, I think they mean the process of sterilizing and forming the planks not, the idea of using manure. Me personally living a hollow pile of cow manure falls in the gross idea pile. sterilization would make it more then acceptable.

By: Ali

Ali — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:32:04 +0000

I find it silly that these MSU students are being heralded as great inventors and forward-thinkers when cow manure has been the primary building material for many indigenous villages around the world for centuries. Villages of India use cow manure as the primary building material: forming walls, floors and roof binders. Many American visitors to the villages were appalled, but now that an MSU grad “invented” it, their perceptions have changed?

I find this sort of proclamation of achievement arrogant.

By: Eric

Eric — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 15:17:56 +0000

Richie, I am all for the ethical treatment of animals, but taking their feces and making it into viable building materials is an excellent if not astonishing development. I mean, regardless of what they eat, they are still going to poop, and that poop could one day be the wall of someones house. No need to shed negative light on a development that in no way affects the animals well being.

By: Richie

Richie — Wed, 21 Mar 2007 12:42:33 +0000

Where do we draw the line ? As William Burroughs said in ‘Naked Lunch’, if Aliens came to our planet and observed us… they’d see us as the ‘Cow parasites’. So finding commercial uses for their dung just seems like a continuation of the ‘Bad karma’ trip we’re on with cows. We don’t grass feed most of them, which is how they’d graze in nature. Instead, we feed them cheap cooked grains laced with super high does of antibiotics and ‘rendered’ cow parts. Then we keep female cows pregant and take away their babies at birth so that they mourn their loss. Male cow babies are put in the dark in small crated in enclosures, so that they become veal. This is just a brutal and sad state of affairs. And now we’ve found a way to even ‘parasite’ their dung ? Great. Just great.

We can do better. Lets ease up on the cows, pigs and fowl. Why don’t we back off of the perspective of them being ‘products’ to be ‘havested’ as completely as possible ? And if we’re going to be so complete in our ‘use’ of their once living bodies… why do we discriminate ? Why don’t we take this approach to Human bodies as well ? That is to say why don’t we get real and use Human Milk instead ? And why don’t we use Human Flesh for ‘Leather’ ? I mean, why WASTE ANYTHING ? That’s not ‘Green’ right ?

We reap what we sow. If we create so much death and suffering amongst animals… how can we be surprised if we experience so much misery in our own experience of the world ? We get back what we put forth, or program into, the multiverse. So what will it be ?