Article misleads on effect of cow emissions on global warming
Roland LLOYD PARRY, AFP USA - Yesterday 3:46 PM
An article shared tens of thousands of times on social media claims gas from cows is not to blame for global warming because the carbon they emit was already in the atmosphere. This is misleading; while scientists say some calculations have misrepresented the effect of methane on global warming, studies and data show cow emissions do contribute to climate change.
"The emissions of cows are part of a closed and self-completing carbon cycle in the atmosphere," says a June 5, 2022 Facebook post titled "The War on Beef." "The believer/activists don't explain that when a cow eats a plant it is vicariously 'eating' carbon from the atmosphere. They don’t explain that, when that cow exhales carbon dioxide or belches methane, the carbon in those gases goes back to where it ultimately came from -- the air around them."
The text is part of an article from a website called Farmers Against Misinformation. It implies cows have a negligible effect on the climate since no new carbon is created when they emit gases.
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