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I first thought “oh great more GMOs to maximize corporate profits while making animals miserable. Then my hopes rose with this: > They were bred with climate c
by mgerdts 5y ago
I first thought “oh great more GMOs to maximize corporate profits while making animals miserable. Then my hopes rose with this:
> They were bred with climate change in mind
So they’ve found a way to have happy cows that burp less methane?
No? Shorter hair so their methane burb greenhouse doesn’t feel so hot? Oh. This probably just boils down to profits after all.
- lonk 5y agoI wonder which one effectfull to climate change, people's total farts vs the total farts of cows in the world?
- karmakurtisaani 5y agoCows by a wide margin, probably. And it's mainly their burps, actually.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoEveryone forgets the missing methane output from the nearly extirpated bison population. Cattle in north america are only slightly more numerous than the peak bison population.
- ben_w 5y agoI wasn’t expecting to ask this when I woke up this morning but: how much methane did bison burp relative to the same biomass of modern cattle?
- imtringued 5y agoProbably less because we are feeding the cheapest source of feed to cows, not what they can digest the best. The food that your body fails to digest will be digested in the big intestine which can lead to bloating.
- mgerdts 5y ago> A number of past studies have found lower greenhouse gas emissions associated with the feedlot system. One reason is that grass-fed cows gain weight more slowly, so they produce more methane (mostly in the form of belches) over their longer lifespans. https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/13/746576239/is-grass-fed-beef-really-better-for-the-planet-heres-the-science https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2019/08/13/746576239/is...
- koonsolo 5y ago36% of all mammals today are humans 60% are livestock So I guess you have the answer
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