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No. Those cows live longer and therefor produce more methane. They are worse in terms of ghg.
by mklarmann 3y ago
No. Those cows live longer and therefor produce more methane. They are worse in terms of ghg.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y agoThe bovid methane drumbeat is bandied by people who conveniently fail to account for the millions of missing American bison that used to produce comparable output.
- dTal 3y agoDid they? Did anyone measure that? Or is that simply an assumption? Relatively small dietary changes can greatly reduce the amount of methane produced by cows (I believe you add something like 15% seaweed to the feed), so it's not at all clear that a free range bison would be similar.
- ryathal 3y agoWild Bison aren't eating seaweed in the great plains. Cows in the plains spend their majority of their life eating the same grasses that the bison ate, then they spend a few months on a corn diet.