Is Beef Production A Major Contributor To Climate Change?

Manhattan Contrarian ^ | 20 May, 2024 | Francis Menton

[FlingWingFlyer]

Where the hell were these climate jackasses when the Indians sat around eating buffalo all the time. Imagine what those millions of buffalo did to the ozone with all their farting.

[chopperk]

How about the last five volcanoes that have pumped over 100 billion tons of ash and vapors into the upper atmosphere??????

[metmom]

No.

What these morons never consider is the days past when herds of tens of millions of bison roamed the prairie.

They are ruminants, too, and produce the same *greenhouse* gasses that domestic cattle do.

There are probably far fewer domestic cattle being raised these days than bison which roamed wild 200 years ago.

[bgill]

They complain about cow farts but never Joe’s.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

” Probably, you have had no reason to question it. Without thinking about it, you likely assume that this narrative is probably true.”

Who is stupid enough to believe alarmist crap like that?

[rktman]

When you positively, absolutely “need” to reduce world population too ~500 million........ Gates not available for comment. Too busy perfecting 3D meat printing.

[BobL]

For people wondering why the Keto Diet remains considered a ‘fad diet’ by the ‘experts’ despite its results being better than any ‘mainstream’ diet, just read this article and remember that the Keto Diet is basically meat-centered, and that means beef-centered.

[Man from Oz]

Interesting. Currently, the USA Beef cow population is at a 50-60 year low. Presently, slaughter is about 30 million for steers and heifers with steers comprising about 18 - 22 million.

Mari Sandoz in her book “The Buffalo Hunters” states in the forward that “In 1492, the present United states held perhaps little over two hundred fifty thousand Indians while the buffalo was estimated all the way from fifty to one hundred twenty-five millions, depending to some extent upon whether the estimator had seen the wide dark herds of the Great Plains”

All of this concern over greenhouse gas with existing herd numbers pales when compared to the historical context.

Perhaps they should focus on termites.

MFO

[Lizavetta]

The end game is unabashedly to reduce your standard of living by taking away one of the most important and best parts of your diet.

It is a fact that too little protein saps energy and makes people more docile. That's one point.

The other point is they're trying to promote their assertion that things that emit methane (burpers and farters) must be reduced.

Cows now, people later.

[CodeToad]

Millions of Bison that were slaughtered in the 1800s no longer exist, but they didn’t contribute according to ignorant and stupid liberals.

[cpdiii]

In the past we had 30 to 60 million buffalo roaming the great plains. Good thing we killed them or we would all be dead from global warming. /S

[cpdiii]

It is not about controlling global warming. It is all about controlling you.

[moovova]

I don’t care.

Show me the beef.

[MtnClimber]

Show me the beef.

[MtnClimber]

[Hiddigeigei]

"There is no climate change..."
There is climate change. Climate has been changing up and down since the beginning. Recently it has been getting warmer with ups and downs since we've been coming out of the Little Ice Age.

[moovova]

[Seriously, isn't there a five-second rule for food snatched by a dog?]

[MtnClimber]

There is a five second rule. You just have to stick your finger down their throat fast enough to get it back in time.

[JimRed]

Exactly zero effect on the climate. Prove otherwise. And not with your jiggered computer models!

[zeugma]

This is one of the most insane of the depopulation pushers and other leftists. When this continent was settled by Europeans, there were vast herds with millions upon millions of buffalo in them.