It is very hard times or cows in the culture of woke climate change extremism. Cows have been targeted by the elites of the UN, World Economic Forum, and EU, as vast methane producers, and nitrogen to boot. Hence the Netherlands is cutting its farms, and Ireland too, all in the name of some mythical zero net, to keep supposed global warming under the 1.5 C mark. Even within the alarmist paradigm, a minority of scientists already see that mark as being passed or soon to be, regardless of what measures are done, such as culling cows. Thus, the measure is pointless in their own terms.
However, as detailed below, Caroline Stocks, quotes air quality expert Frank Mitloehner, professor of animal science at UC Davis in California, who has argued that the extent to which cows contribute to global warming is exaggerated. The UN is responsible for the figure that livestock contributes 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, as in their report Livestock’s Long Shadow. But the results were fudged in typical UN style, by adding emissions along the total supply chain, from land use to the supermarket freezer, which is absurd, but we know where they are coming from.