John Klar explains why The biggest climate lie is about cows. He explains it better that I can, but essentially cows are large ruminants, much as buffalo are. The fertile soil of the Great Plains was created by generations of buffalo pounding their hooves into the soil along with plant matter, urine and manure. When grazed instead of being being fed grain on a feed lot, cows do the same thing, building the soil and sequestering greenhouse gases.
When Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez announced that people would have to stop eating hamburgers because cow flatulence was an existential threat to life on Earth, most people duly chuckled. Nevertheless, AOC’s call for cow-culling was taken up by the United Nations, European Union, World Economic Forum, and “Climate Envoy” John Kerry. Protests defending farming in Holland, Ireland, and Belgium opposed these bold attacks on gentle bovines. Contrary to slanderous arguments by globalist fearmongers, cows are the solution to many of humanity’s most significant environmental problems. Here’s why.
The fertile American heartland was created by buffalo. Hooves pounding the land pressed plants into the ground to mesh with manure and urine, feeding the soil microbiome and nurturing vital soils. The advent of human technology tore into the ground in reckless tilling, releasing massive amounts of carbon dioxide into the air and depleting soil health while proclaiming a “Green Revolution” that initiated the slow desertification of the land. Synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides, fungicides, and GMO chemical adjuncts have compounded and aggravated the problem.
Note, the above speaks to cows grazing, as God intended, eating grass, processing the grass through four stomachs, where the cow's microbiome slowly digests it to turn it into proteins and fats. Yes, cows due burp carbon dioxide and methane, but these gases are just recycled gases that are again taken up by growing new grasses. On the other hand, cows kept in concentrated animal feed operation (CAFO) actually produce more methane and CO2, as well as other destructive products:
Cows fed grain produce less methane than cows on grass… unless one includes the pollution generated by planting, seeding, harvesting, and processing all that grain. Atrazine, glyphosate, neonicotinoids, and a bevy of other toxic chemicals and fuels are immediately eliminated from the cow-feed pipeline when cows are fed grass only. Grass blades are God’s solar panels — truly renewable, converting the sun’s energy into edible meats through the bodies of livestock, without building a concrete prison or tilling the ground.
The focus on cow methane is a deliberate ruse by “manure-deniers.” Cows produce methane through enteric fermentation, but they also generate manure and urine that nurture soils, which in turn absorb methane and carbon dioxide through microbial activity, prevent soil erosion and water loss, and improve the soil microbiome and thus crop productivity — all without the toxic intrusion of the U.S. chemical industry.
If cows are eliminated and replaced with synthetic meats, we are told the environment will benefit: yet the opposite is easily demonstrated. Synthetic meats are “cultured” in vats using plant matter as a growing medium, likely soy and/or corn. That soy and corn will be produced using the same destructive GMO practices that are destroying America’s farmland.
Manure can only be replaced with more synthetic fertilizers, particularly urea (nitrogen), which is made from natural gas (aka methane). Urea production gives off nitrous oxide, a greenhouse gas identified by the EPA as having a Global Warming Potential (GWP) 273 times more potent than carbon dioxide.
Please read the whole article. Klar knows whereof he speaks. Interestingly, most of the land in this area of North Carolina is better suited to grazing cattle than for growing crops. I would also note that humans have been eating large ruminant animals for 3 million or more years, while we have been eating vegetables for only the last 10,000 years. If you have ever been hiking in the woods, have you ever seen any vegetables commonly seen in the supermarket? No? That's because they don't exist in the wild, and what does exist is so limited, man can not live all year on vegetables. Besides, man can not derive nutrition from leaves and grass. We are not ruminants. Instead, we are predators, and need meat to survive. Further, we can derive every vitamin, mineral and the macronutrients in just the right rations to thrive.
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