This article grabbed my attention today. I appreciate the risk of confirmation bias but it is always helpful to see the issue from the other point of view in a world where the media is pressing us all to eat less meat and base our eating on plants.
It wasn't the cattle after all .
Madeleine
#3
Thanks so much for sharing this! It makes so much sense. I think world-wide the ruminant population is actually down (I could be wrong about this, but definitely in North America, I don’t think the cattle industry is anywhere near - in numbers - the herds of bison that were here up to a few hundred years ago) but blaming ruminants for increased methane has never made any sense to me.
The fact that the govt made calculations of methane emissions based on the fertilizer industry self-reporting is just incredible.
Polly1
(Polly)
#4
Every government in the westernised world seems to pay more attention to commercial interests than to the interests of their electorate. Then to be told that we (the human population) need to change our ways in order to “save the planet” and making it all the fault of the populace looks like an attempt at a conjuring trick to me!
I would like one of the universities which does climate change modelling to work on a model which cuts out all arable farming, puts the land back under grazing of grass by ruminants and see where that puts us.
I believe that in such circumstances we might all be able to grow enough green leafy veg in planters or window boxes to meet our needs if there was sufficient enthusiasm. That could enable more grass fed beef and lamb to be available.
David_Stilley
(Full Metal KETO AF)
#5
This would be great, however not doable for the average city dweller. I don’t think that organic vegetable farming is a problem, it’s massive grain farming using chemicals that’s the real problem and what most of the farm lands are being used for in North America.
