Cows may be off the hook, so to speak. At least as far as causing catastrophic climate change through the release of greenhouse gasses such as methane, from burps and flatulence, but I hope that they will still be on the butcher's hook for a long time, supplying tasty meat for us.
Globalist organisations such as the World Economic Forum, have been big on the anti-meat campaign, which has had success in getting some countries such as the Netherlands and Ireland to declare war on their farmers, to meet the net zero mania. However, studies have indicated that cows actually interact with pastures leading to less methane production than if pastures are just left cowless.
The net zero mania has led to numerous misguided attempts to reduce the supposed methane emissions of cows. One particularly silly one is a $ 4.8 million grant to a London-based company to develop a gas mask that the cows wear! I immediately thought about putting in a grant to old Bill for something to put at the other end but did not come up with anything to solve obvious problems. Bill Gates also likes the idea of genetically modify cows so that they burp and fart less. But best of all Bill likes artificial meat, which his company is pushing.
https://slaynews.com/news/cows-do-not-cause-climate-change-top-study-confirms/
"In recent years, unelected foreign organizations such as the World Economic Forum (WEF) and the United Nations (UN) have been demonizing the agriculture industry while calling for limits, or even bans, on the general public's consumption of meat and dairy products.
The WEF, UN, and green agenda politicians argue that methane gasses from cattle, or "cow farts," cause "global warming."
This so-called "settled science" on alleged cattle emissions has led to increasing scrutiny of farmers around the world.
Global governments have responded by ramping up regulations for the agriculture industry in an effort to shut farms down.
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that 11.1% of emissions worldwide come from livestock production.
The FAO released a report last year urging Americans to eat less meat.
The UN argues that if people "fight climate change" by eating less meat, there will be less demand for cows.
If there are fewer cows, there will be fewer emissions, according to the UN.
However, new research from Alltech and Archbold suggests that these anti-cow claims from globalists are a hoax.
According to the new study, blaming cows for methane emissions ignores cattle's relationship with the land.
The researchers found that, if grazing cattle were removed from pastures, emissions would actually go up, not down.
Besides trying to convince people to change their diets so we can get rid of more cows, other efforts seek to attack the emissions at the source.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation awarded a $4.8 million grant to a London-based company to develop gas masks for cows.
The masks are a similar concept to carbon capture technology.
Other research is looking into food additives that go into the cows' feed.
Bill Gates is also pushing for cows to be genetically "modified" to advance this agenda.
The additives seek to reduce the amount of methane emissions coming out of the animal.
In Ireland, dairy farmers were looking at possibly having to kill a lot of healthy cattle in order to comply with the WEF's "Net Zero" emission reduction targets.
Dr. Vaughn Holder, research project manager for beef nutrition at Alltech, and Dr. Betsey Boughton, director of agroecology at Archbold, studied the impacts that cattle production has on the ecosystem on a wetlands pasture at Buck Island Ranch.
The ranch is about 150 miles northwest of Miami, Florida.
The researchers found that 19%-30% of methane emissions were from the cattle.
However, the rest of the methane was from the wetland soils.
If the cows are removed, it actually increases the amount of methane the wetland ecosystems give off, the research shows.
Globalists argue that methane is more potent in terms of "greenhouse warming" than carbon dioxide.
Yet, methane only lasts about 12 years.
So reducing methane can have a more immediate impact on warming than reducing carbon dioxide, according to the study.
Cattle emissions are often demonized in a similar way to fossil fuel emissions, the researchers note.
When we burn fossil fuels, the emissions go into the air. So eliminating a coal-fired power plant, for example, removes an emissions source, which produces a drop in emissions.
"There is a far more complex process in agriculture than it is in fossil fuel systems," Holder said.
Ruminants, as they're called, which includes cattle and sheep, have a large chamber in front of their stomach that acts as a fermentation factory.
Inside are bacteria, yeasts, fungi, and other microorganisms that help the animals digest grasses that humans can't.
Methane is a natural waste product of that process.
In a series of videos on the Buck Island research, Holder explains that cattle take a lot of plants humans can't eat.
The cows turn them into edible proteins humans can consume, increasing global food security."