>I work in Greenhouse Gas recording and have a good mat in the Fed. GHG
>office. Cows are WAY bad. Yes the carbon comes from the atmosphere etc,
>but the big difference is that cows turn it into Methane, about 25 times
>more powerful as a GHG than CO2. So, if cows only convert 2 in 25 carbon
>molecules into methane it makes this carbon twice as bad. I repeat, cows
>are bad.
Yeah, good point Evan, forgot about that! By the way, in the Greenhouse Gas calculations does the carbon output of farm related activities such as livestock transport, hay/grain cartage etc get taken into account? |