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BBC at it again re meat and climate
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<blockquote data-quote="Cowabunga" data-source="post: 7810607" data-attributes="member: 718"><p>The scientific explanation is that they are ruminants and the more forage they eat the more methane they produce. However, a static ruminant population does not increase atmospheric methane because methane only lives for ten years at most and therefore a cow only maintains existing methane levels. More intensively farmed cattle produce less methane per head. Ruminants have roamed the Earth in current or greater numbers since time immemorial and they are certainly not responsible for increasing greenhouse gases.</p><p>Neither is the use of nitrogen fertiliser which has just been show to produce essential CO2 that is utilised by non-agricultural industries including for drinks and cooling nuclear reactors. Plus of course, CO2 is essential for plant growth and therefore all life on Earth, which is all carbon based.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowabunga, post: 7810607, member: 718"] The scientific explanation is that they are ruminants and the more forage they eat the more methane they produce. However, a static ruminant population does not increase atmospheric methane because methane only lives for ten years at most and therefore a cow only maintains existing methane levels. More intensively farmed cattle produce less methane per head. Ruminants have roamed the Earth in current or greater numbers since time immemorial and they are certainly not responsible for increasing greenhouse gases. Neither is the use of nitrogen fertiliser which has just been show to produce essential CO2 that is utilised by non-agricultural industries including for drinks and cooling nuclear reactors. Plus of course, CO2 is essential for plant growth and therefore all life on Earth, which is all carbon based. [/QUOTE]
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