http://change.nature.org/2011/04/01/no-fooling-cow-burps-and-farts-contribute-to-climate-change/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=no-fooling-cow-burps-and-farts-contribute-to-climate-change Inspiring People to Take Action on Climate Change Sat, 09 Feb 2013 03:01:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://change.nature.org/2011/04/01/no-fooling-cow-burps-and-farts-contribute-to-climate-change/#comment-751 BruceJ Fri, 01 Apr 2011 17:26:56 +0000 http://change.nature.org/?p=1974#comment-751 I am no fan of domestic cattle or grazing – but let me ask this – if it were not for the cattle, would natural, native ruminants completely fill the role that cattle have usurped as methane-burpers? There used to be upwards of 100,000,000 bison in North America, and probably comparable (or greater) numbers of large ruminants on other continents – how is it that Cattle are worse than the natural condition?

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