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[–] fuckwit_mcbumcrumble@lemmy.dbzer0.com 111 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Zero emissions? I know people find it ha ha funny, but farts legitimately contain methane and other green house gassses.

Cows for example are a large contributor of GHG

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (2 children)

plus if we had as many horses as we did cars we would be living in a horse shit apocalypse.

[–] iii@mander.xyz 30 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Compress into brick, then build tower. Now you also have tower.

[–] Aeri@lemmy.world 17 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I generously donate my castle composed entirely out of horse shit to you kind sir.

[–] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Only you can solve the housing crisis

[–] iii@mander.xyz 8 points 3 days ago

Foreever gratefull I am

[–] Foreigner@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

And it'll be built like a shit-brick house

[–] Dagnet@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

We don't need more Trump towers thx

[–] SkunkWorkz@lemmy.world 11 points 3 days ago

Yep before the automobile streets were covered in horseshit.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

This is complete bs.

Tldr: cows in sheds eating corn is the problem, cows eating natural grass actually sequester more carbon than an empty field.

Long answer: Photosynthesis can only get carbon from the atmosphere. This carbon is then turned into plant material in grass. This grass is then eaten by the cow. A small portion of this grass will be converted into methane and other byproducts in the cow's digestive tracks. Some will be turned to energy for the cow and a vast majority will be shit out as raw unprocessed material. This raw unprocessed material, i.e. cow shit, this will last in the environment sequestering more carbon for longer time than just grass sitting there by itself. A grazed paddock will grow more grass than a non-grazed paddock because the cows are eating the fucking grass. i.e. more carbon from the environment is getting sequestered in the grass and the cow shit.

The only reason that cows get such a bad wrap is that variouse other factors are being counted that really shouldnt be under cows. Deforestation to grow plants to feed livestock, the transportation of meat, livestock feed etc etc.

A properly managed grass fed beef (like what we have here in australia) actually has a net negative effect on ghg. The factory farmed beef eating corn in a shed thats never seen a blade of grass is whats actually causing the ghg seen in the reports.

We have already seen this narrarive been used to strongarm small farmers grazing cattle while the multinational farms get away with fucking the environment cos they can afford the cost of beurocracy.

We are all just 3 warm meals away from anarchy thats something we should do well to remember.

Ps. Its not "cow flatulence" its "enteric fermentation" (burps) cow farts just makes a better headline.

Edit: formatting

[–] merc@sh.itjust.works 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

tract

rap

various

[–] sukhmel@programming.dev 8 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I think you should've put TL;DR in the beginning, otherwise it looked like you're arguing cows don't fart, when you were actually about net effect.

I never thought about it from this side, but it makes sense, and seems like another way big corporations fuck the world up.

[–] muntedcrocodile@lemm.ee 3 points 3 days ago

Good shout.

Its a classic case of simple answer to a complex problem that nobody really thinks about cos it sounds vaguely reasonable in a headline.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I can't believe my eyes, someone that isn't spouting the usual bullshit about cows and GHG on Lemmy.

I'll be gobsmacked.

[–] Godric@lemmy.world 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)
  1. If you think a horse has the environmental impact of an automobile, I have a bridge to sell you

  2. Horses aren't cows

[–] iii@mander.xyz 25 points 3 days ago (1 children)
[–] Godric@lemmy.world 10 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I, uh, errr, uhhhhh.....

Motions vaguely at the four-legged animals

They're just different, trust me, okay????

[–] the_crotch@sh.itjust.works 6 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Horse is the male, cow is the female. Just like dogs and cats.

[–] immutable@lemm.ee 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

White cows make normal milk, brown cows make chocolate milk. That’s just science

And if you're fancy, you'll find red cows that make strawberry milk.

[–] AFallingAnvil@lemmy.ca 4 points 3 days ago

I dunno, I'll have to do my own research on this one, my third cousin's dog walkers nephew's barber said he read a tweet declaring they were actually the same animal, just one ate more as a youth and has an accent due to the weight.

[–] Mercuri@lemmy.world 12 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I mean you're not wrong but no matter how small an impact it's still not ZERO emissions, so the guy you're replying to is technically correct.

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 0 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Look at how much calories a horse needs per day, and then look at how much CO2 gets emitted to produce said food. Even the amount of CO2 a horse exhales per day is already significant.

If you think a horse has the environmental impact of an automobile

At what point reading my comment did you come up with this?

[–] AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Ok, no cow riding.