Cows Cause Global Warming Even If We Eat Them?

There is a report in the Telegraph UK indicating that the amount of energy consumed and methane gas released during the process of getting beef steaks to the table is more than driving a car for 3 hours at 50 mph. The study, done by in Japan includes not only the amount of methane released from the intestinal tract but also the amount of energy consumed transporting the beef. This is a ludicrous argument.

The amount of methane released is a valid argument though it would have been released if the cow lived so it is pretty much a wash. As for transportation issues and the claim made in the article that by not eating beef we can reduce carbon footprints, they do not make sense. Suppose that we decide not to eat meat and go strictly with vegetables. There would be no release of methane from the dead cows (the live ones would still fart) but we would still have the same carbon footprint when we transported the vegetables. Unless I missed something, fruits and vegetables do not walk to our houses. They must be transported in the same kinds of refrigerated trucks that transport meat. We still have to drive to the store to get them and farmers have to use equipment that uses fossil fuels to plant and then harvest them (unless they use ILLEGAL immigrants in which case they must be housed and fed which uses energy).

For years cows have been blamed as a major producer of methane. People eat them and this reduces the number of them producing methane but now, we are told that they continue to have a carbon footprint when they are killed for consumption. The study ignores the impact of non meat products on the environment and focuses on meat as the sole problem. This is poor scientific study.

But then again, we’ve become accustomed to this in the Global Warming debate.

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41 Responses to “Cows Cause Global Warming Even If We Eat Them?”

  1. David says:

    “…But more than two thirds of the energy used goes towards producing and transporting cattle feed, said the study…”

    Although that’s not among my primary reasons for eating RANGE-FED ONLY beef, I can now cite it as a “green” reason to confound those irrational, hypocritical “greenies” who still eat beef from a McDonald’s-style feedlot animal. “My beef’s greener than your beef, my beef’s greener than yours. My Beef’s greener cos it eats grashn shrubs, my beef’s greener than yours.”

    (Yeh, the range-fed beef I eat is from cattle that are naturally browsers not just grazers.)

    Locally-grown, range-fed beef that has been fedd NO antibiotics, steroids or “chicken house sweepings” (I kid you not: chickensh*t is considered a “protein supplement”) is much better for you, and now you can say it’s better for the environment as well.

    😉

    Tastes better than typical store bought feedlot crap, too.

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