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Maybe because cow fart studies *are* bogus. Do you really want to solve "global warming"? If the answer is yes then cows are miles down the list.

How do you know that? Methane is an important and potent greenhouse gas. Livestock emissions are a significant contributor to methane emissions.

For the record, it's not the giggle inducing "cow farts" that's the problem, but cow belches!

From https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/making-cattle-mo...:

Cattle are the No. 1 agricultural source of greenhouse gases worldwide. Each year, a single cow will belch about 220 pounds of methane. Methane from cattle is shorter lived than carbon dioxide but 28 times more potent in warming the atmosphere, said Mitloehner, a professor and air quality specialist in the Department of Animal Science.

And from https://www.epa.gov/snep/agriculture-and-aquacultu...:

When ruminant animals such as goats, sheep, and especially cattle digest their food, it gets processed in their systems by way of fermentation. This process breaks the food down over time and produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that contributes to our rapidly warming planet when expelled to the atmosphere in the traditional biologic routes; i.e., flatulence or burps. Researchers have found that 37% of methane emissions from human activity are the direct result of our livestock and agricultural practices.

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