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Re:Emissions from 13 dairy firms match those of entire UK by perfunctory on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:02AM (#23526421)
> Grass grows sucking in carbon, cows eat grass?

Very few cows are grown eating actual grass. Most are fed special cattle feed.

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Re:Emissions from 13 dairy firms match those of entire UK by sdflhasjd on Monday June 15, 2020 @08:15AM (#23526500)
Cows are herbivores, I don't think grass vs barley or whatever they eat affects the carbon offset that much - they don't literally eat fossil fuels.

I would imagine it's not carbon neutral anyway because of transport and other overhead etc.

Methane being worse than CO2 seems to be also a concern,

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Re:Emissions from 13 dairy firms match those of entire UK by makx on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:05AM (#23527426)
The feed is grown with fertilizers, which are fossil fuel:

https://www.darrinqualman.com/historic-nitrogen-fertilizer-c...

> In 2015, farmers applied more than 110 million tonnes. We managed to increase grain output fourfold largely by increasing nitrogen inputs 23-fold. Nitrogen fertilizer is a fossil fuel product, made primarily from natural gas.

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Re:Emissions from 13 dairy firms match those of entire UK by dalore on Monday June 15, 2020 @10:23AM (#23527628)
It depends on the country of course. UK cows tend to be fed mostly grass.
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