Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertification is a growing threat

Re:Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertificatio... by jazzyjackson on Sunday August 30, 2026 @08:59PM (#49504473)

Beef can be raised carbon negative, it’s just more expensive. Maybe not scalable to 8 billion, I don’t know, but the man buying meat from a butcher buying from small farms raising grass fed cows is not the problem (it’s the corn that makes them fart, can’t digest as well)

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Re:Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertificatio... by epolanski on Monday August 31, 2026 @05:01AM (#49507328)

Beef cannot be carbon negative, a single cow, will emit half a pound of methane per day, which is equivalent to 100 pounds of CO2.

There is no way around it.

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Re:Europe's summer drought is so extreme that desertificatio... by Otterly99 on Monday August 31, 2026 @08:22AM (#49508795)

Can you explain how raising an animal can be carbon negative?

It just doesn't seem to make sense to me. How can any mammal capture more carbon than they release?

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