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publié dans Ressources le 28 juillet 2016

The Myth that Cattle are a Climate Change Catastrophe

Land Stewardship Project

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Sometimes the rules of simple cause and effect don’t apply. Take, for instance, the fact that cattle are ruminants, and like all ruminants they utilize a wonderfully complex digestive system to turn forages and grain into meat and milk. A major side effect of all that fermentation on four legs is the production of methane, which is a potent greenhouse gas.

So cattle are major villains in the global climate change crisis, right? Not necessarily. In fact, according to a major research editorial in the Journal of Soil and Water Conservation, ruminants could hold one of the keys to developing a food production system that reverses the impacts of releasing so many greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

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