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Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% by snak on Friday August 16, 2019 @10:35AM (#20715545)
That's an interesting way to put it into words. In paper sounds like a really unefficient pipeline (vegetables -> animals -> humans).

Thanks for that, made me reflect on how stupid it sounds but how common it is.

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Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% by ars on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:35AM (#20716207)
It's not really stupid, the idea is cows eat plant matter that humans can't eat. Cellulose mainly from grass and other plants.

They aren't eating the same plants that you eat.

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Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% by helkafen on Friday August 16, 2019 @11:10PM (#20721729)
That works up to a certain point, since the production is limited by the area of naturally occurring grasslands. When all the grassland is used, forests are cleared. Today, grazing is responsible for 80% of all deforestation in the Amazon [1].

[1] https://wwf.panda.org/knowledge_hub/where_we_work/amazon/ama...

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Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% by danans on Friday August 16, 2019 @01:14PM (#20717228)
> They aren't eating the same plants that you eat.

Humans don't eat corn and soy? Because that's what is fed to industrially raised beef cattle.

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