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It's fossil fuels. Something like a 100 million barrels of oil a day.
But people blame the cows. LMAO
It's BOTH of what you listed, and more, that are affecting climate. Just because something is a greater percentage of the cause, doesn't negate the other contributors.
It's both. There are trillions of cattle producing an enormous quantity of feces every day that produce enormous quantities of methane, which is a far worse greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide per gram
AFAIK there's actually less than a billion cattle
That’s why too many cattle, we need way less than that, a few hundred or thousand should be enough
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263979/global-cattle-population-since-1990/
1.5 Billion worldwide.