OK, it's time to educate the veggie people telling us to quit eating beef because the cow farts are ruining the planet. It seems that the manufacturing fertilizer for crops puts 100 times more methane in the atmosphere than cow gas.
The correction should specify "corn fed beef" because it isn't the cow farts causing the problem, but the methane released in the manufacture of fertilizers to grow the corn that puts the most methane in the atmosphere.
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People tend to equate methane with cow farts (though their burps are worse), but we may be pointing our fingers in all the wrong places, according to a new study. The production of ammonia for fertilizer may result in up to 100 times more emissions than has been previously estimated for this sector. And that alone is more than what the Environmental Protection Agency estimates all industries emit across the U.S.
On the other hand, 100% grass-fed beef exists on grasslands that need zero additional water, zero fertilizer and zero herbicides. To grow crops on these nutrient poor lands requires tons of water, tons of fertilizer, tons of herbicides, and tons of gas guzzled in farm equipment.
It turns out that eating grass-fed beef is actually good for the environment. Please help educate the well-meaning anti-beef environmentalist that believe the skewed statistics that take into consideration cow farts but not the fertilizer used to grow crops.
Per a study published in Elementa done by Cornell University and the Environmental Defense Fund
https://earther.gizmodo.com/just-one-tiny-industry-may-emit-more-methane-than-epa-h-1835376030Please help fight the noble war, don't let Big Ag have their way and turn our precious grasslands into farmlands when growing beef on those grasslands will help save our planet from global warming.
Bob