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The myth of cows and climate change.
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The grass that cattle eat is made mostly from Carbon Dioxide and water etc. The cow's body is made from the same and during its life it will produce milk and meat for human nourishment. What the killjoys will point out is that during their life, cows produce a lot of methane which is a far worse GHG than CO2.
What these activists don't mention is that Methane in the atmosphere decays into CO2 and water with a half-life of about 6 years and after 30 years only about 1% of the original methane remains. In fact, the net contribution to global warming of one cow measured over say 60 years is vanishingly close to zero.
So cattle farming is one of the most sustainable activities known to man.