Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from food production

Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by slothtrop on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @08:50AM (#28523952)

> it's that biomass that's the ultimate source of those emissions.

It's cow burps. That's it.

Land-use in the U.S. for cattle has actually been decreasing for decades. It's only increasing in Brazil because of new access to Asian and European markets.

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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by beerandt on Tuesday September 14, 2021 @10:20PM (#28534458)

No, it's decomposing grass, expelled as cow burps.

That grass decomposes whether it's eaten by a cow or not.

And grazing land use has been decreasing, but not land use for producing feed.

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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by slothtrop on Thursday September 16, 2021 @09:31AM (#28551540)

> That grass decomposes whether it's eaten by a cow or not.

That isn't contested. Decomposing grass won't yield those methane emissions, at the very least insofar as it won't decompose at the same rate.

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Re:Meat accounts for nearly 60% of all greenhouse gases from... by beerandt on Sunday September 19, 2021 @01:35PM (#28586198)

That's not the alternate reality though. The land will be put into productive use that's doesn't include leaving it to decompose on it's own, at it's own rate. It's either still harvested as hay and fed to something else, or the they grow something else, like corn, that they intentionally ferment into either other feed or energy products.

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