Not to mention that beef/dairy production is a primary source of methane which is 80x more potent than Co2, but constantly under reported due to its shorter half life. Yes in the long run that matters, but its all the more reason that we should reduce animal agriculture right away as the payback is much faster than limiting Co2.

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enquirewithin 15 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

What percentage of anthropogenic methane emissions can be attributed in cow farts?

I would hazard a guess that the incidental methane emissions from one gas extraction field would astronomically dwarf the emissions from cow farts.

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krige 11 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methane_emissions

fossil fuels contribute 33% farm animals contribute 30%

Not astronomically; marginally. Anyone who's been around herbivore farm animals will tell you they fart. A lot.

Then again, farm plants are a further 18%.

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		> Then again, farm plants are a further 18%. Yeah, but they also provide 80% of the world's calories to animals' 20%
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		With corn based feeding.
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		> farm plants are a further 18% Apparently mainly rice growing. I knew paddy fields were bad, but I didn't know they were that bad. Per calorie I am sure it is more like a tenth that of ruminants, perhaps less, but still worth replacing with other carbohydrates.

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shiandow 10 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You would be wrong, they are about equal in size, both accounting for about a third of the anthropogenic emissions.

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mklarmann 8 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

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