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The climate issue has been in the headlines lately. This article was written in the week that begins in Glasgow, Scotland, the Climate Conference, with the participation of many world leaders announcing the intention to completely eliminate greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels (coal, oil and gas), by 2050. The global dairy industry is in this context and it is also in the headlines, ...
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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 the w ...
Participation in Forum on February 21, 2022
Avsejs Jofis Yes we can feed them all. But then we must stop wasting 30% of the produced food. However, the population of the world is still growing and there is a limit. Furthermore, we need cattle to convert grass and other plants that we cannot eat. If the cows don't eat it, it will be composted and turned into CO2 and CH4 anyway.
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Participation in Forum on January 24, 2022
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 ...
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Participation in Forum on January 10, 2022
Vignesh. P Please explain what you mean by that.
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Participation in Forum on December 1, 2021
Dear Isreal, Good that you bring this issue to the forum. I am getting so frustrated about people blaming the cow for global warming. A cow does not 'produce' CO2, it recyclels it. The CO2 exhaled by the cow is used by the grass to grow. Eaten again by the cow and used for her energy to produce milk and meat. You could say that grass is a 'natural solar panel'. It stores solar energy and makes it ...
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Location:Utrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands
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Occupation: Associate Professor at Veterinary Faculty