Don’t put the blame on cattle breeding when dealing with global warming
Published:January 17, 2022
Summary
In a previous article I published here, I presented the different opinions that exist about the causes of global warming in recent decades, and I also brought to the attention of readers the opinion of researchers who deny that human activity in the last 150 years is the main cause for it. According to these researchers, global warming is part of a million-year-old cyclical process, in which th...
Congratulations on your article. First, people have to be focused on principal reason so that they do not get fooled. More action for raising awareness that cows are not guilty and not primarily responsible from global warming. However, it is well known that, livestock produces about 60% of animal proteins consumed by human in the world. There is a dirty game on scene for destruction of natural food sources in favor of artificial.
Well done.
This article gives us a different perspective of what we have been made to believe that livestock is a major contributor to global warming. I hope that those who have been accusing cattle now know that these animals are innocent and that it is the human being who is the main culprit through various activities which release tons of carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
Excellent article and well done. It very interesting article and I thanks to the author.
This message must goes to the climate groups extensively to reduce the blame against cattle.
Dear Israel,
Thank you for this contribution. It is about time that politicians read this. There is even an extra argument and that is that if the plants do not get eaten by cattle, they will be composted and the same amount of CO2 and CH4 will be emitted in the atmosphere. The cycle has to continue. So the effect of cattle is just that they convert the plants in something that is digestible for us. If we all become vegan, we'll be starving.
I don't think there is going to be much choice for dairy and livestock businesses in general to prove whether or not their cattle is a pollutant; the facts are, that agreements have been made already. Tecnologies which are taking commercial advantages of gas methane to produce electricity are in practice.
More difficult is going to be the capture of the CH4 erupted in the atmosphere for ruminants; of which, is more than 75% of the enteric methane produce daily by an adult dairy cow.
A very timely and necessary article! But we can talk about reducing methane emissions in terms of increasing the productivity of lactating cows, by increasing the production of butyrate in the rumen and reducing the activity of methanogenic archaea.