Why cows are responsible for climate change

150_000000307100.jpgYou can read it everywhere. Cattle, dairy farming and farming at large have a high output of dangerous climate gases and therefore substantially contribute to the climate change. So it’s really the cows: the source can be found in their stomachs. Every cow has four stomachs in order to process hardly digestible food, such as grass.

This causes huge lots of flatulation, methane clouds so to speak. Actually, all animals including humans produce such gases, but cows are really gas production plants, since they consume so much nutrition and because there are so many of them all over the globe. The problem could be solved if we would refrain from consuming cheese, milk, butter, steaks on our grill or even leather. This is how easy it could be, at least until someone invents a catalytic converter for cows.

On the other hand, before we sacrifice the things we love, wouldn’t it be smarter to reduce emissions in areas that would not degrade our living standards? And where would that be? Probably in the industry, households or transportation.

Did you know that the greenhouse gas potential of methane is 23 times higher than that of CO2?