Submitted by celebratedrecluse in Vegan
Report claims.
If true, this is huge. There are many reasons how mass agribusiness of livestock harms the environment, and specifically contribute to climate collapse, however the production of methane is one of the biggest problems.
While this is probably a good technology to make use of, it will also further justify (greenwashing) the destruction of habitat and rainforest lands for expansion of animal agriculture activities, as well as the unsustainable use of finite petrofertilizers to enable such wasteful industries, among other major problems created by the agribusinesses of flesh. Because, now, it's ok it doesn't produce much methane.
This shows the limits of reducing environmental issues to greenhouse emissions alone. Climate collapse is fueled by a holistic degradation of human relationship with the non-human world, and there are phenomena somewhat disconnected from the climate which are still hugely problematic for living things. The problem is with culture and mode of economy, something that will always be out of reach of purely technocratic fixes.
catachresis wrote
Nah. The first time I heard seaweed and cattle emissions this I did the math and it turns out to feed cows enough seaweed to reduce their emissions the world’s supply of seaweed to be exhausted in a few days.
Title is also misleading because total cattle emissions are greater than just their farts. Transportation, deforestation, etc.
This might be useful in the future for the jerks that need their steak and refuse to eat vat-grown meat.