A pro-meat social media account claims that “a mammal living as it should” doesn’t produce greenhouse gases. But cattle do produce methane, a greenhouse gas.
Cattle are ruminants — grass-chewing animals with hooves and multichambered stomachs. Other ruminants include deer, goats and buffalo.
Cattle store food in one part of their stomachs, where it ferments. The fermentation "produces the greenhouse gas, methane, as well as a host of other byproducts," according to the center, which also notes that"decomposing food in landfills does the same thing." The cattle then release methane, mainly by belching but also through flatulence.
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