| json_metadata | "{"app":"musing/1.1","appTags":["sustainability","methane","climate-change","cows","cattle"],"appCategory":"sustainability","appTitle":"Cows are a big headache in solving the climate change problem. What would happen if everyone who consumes beef and all cow-based dairy products converted to lamb and goat?","appBody":"<p>Cows are not a big headache to this nature and environment, rather they are the most valuable to this ecosystem, if you give up eating beef. The truth is that the humans are the worst ever creature on this earth who for the selfish goal destroying the ecosystem.</p>\n<p>If people will stick to an eating schedule which comprises of less carbon footprint, that can eventually help in fighting the global warming and climate change. The real solution to this is \"not switching from one type of meat to another\" rather \"sticking to a vegan diet\". That is natural and problem-solving.</p>\n<p>Carbon dioxide is the most-prevalent gas when it comes to climate change. It is released by vehicles, industry, and forest removal and comprises the greatest portion of greenhouse gas totals. But methane and nitrous oxide are also greenhouse gasses and account for approximately 28 percent of global warming activity.</p>\n<p>Methane and nitrous oxide are released, in part, by livestock. Animals release methane as a result of microorganisms that are involved in their digestive processes and nitrous oxide from decomposing manure. These two gasses are responsible for a quarter of these non-carbon dioxide gas emissions and 9 percent of total greenhouse gas emissions overall.</p>\n<p>The various research reports a stark difference between livestock-related emissions in the developing world, which accounts for most of this increase, and that released by developed countries. This is expected to increase further going forward, as demand for meat, dairy products, and eggs are predicted by some scientists to double by 2050. By contrast, developed countries reached maximum livestock emissions in the 1970s and have been in decline since that time.</p>\n<p>The developing world is getting better at reducing greenhouse emissions caused by each animal, but this improvement is not keeping up with the increasing demand for meat. As a result, greenhouse gas emissions from livestock keep going up and up in much of the developing world.</p>\n<p>Breaking it down by animal, beef and dairy cattle comprised 74 percent of livestock-related greenhouse gas emissions, 54 percent coming from beef cattle and 17 percent from dairy cattle. Part of this is due to the abundance of cows, but it is also because cattle emit greater quantities of methane and nitrous oxide than other animals. Sheep comprised 9 percent, buffalo 7 percent, pigs 5 percent, and goats 4 percent.</p>\n<p>Simply put, the absolute solution for the environment is-if we all became vegans.</p>","appDepth":2,"appParentPermlink":"fklfqs3af","appParentAuthor":"mrhill","musingAppId":"aU2p3C3a8N","musingAppVersion":"1.1","musingPostType":"answer"}" |
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