The Climateers want us to stop eating meat because cow burps and gaseous emissions create methane (horrors!), which is actually an infinitesimal percentage of the atmosphere. What they don’t think about is what happens to the grass if cattle aren’t grazing it. Eventually it dies, rots and releases approximately the same amount of methane. In fact, a recent study where cattle were grazing near a wetland revealed methane from rotting vegetation actually increased when cattle weren’t grazing that land. (From grazing, roots went deeper for water stabilizing the land; when grazing stopped, roots didn’t need to reach so deep, causing an increase in the wetland and more vegetation rot.) Anyway . . .
The Climateers want us to stop eating meat because cow burps and gaseous emissions create methane (horrors!), which is actually an infinitesimal percentage of the atmosphere. What they don’t think about is what happens to the grass if cattle aren’t grazing it. Eventually it dies, rots and releases approximately the same amount of methane. In fact, a recent study where cattle were grazing near a wetland revealed methane from rotting vegetation actually increased when cattle weren’t grazing that land. (From grazing, roots went deeper for water stabilizing the land; when grazing stopped, roots didn’t need to reach so deep, causing an increase in the wetland and more vegetation rot.) Anyway . . .