Are Cow Farts Causing Global Warming?

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Are Cow Farts Causing Global Warming?
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Some say the problem with cows comes down to their burps, not their farts.

There are two important things to note here. First, while the agriculture industry accounted for 10% of greenhouse gas emissions from the financial sector in 2019, according to the EPA, not all of those emissions came from cows. Soil, land, feed, and manure management also contribute to the agriculture industry's ecological footprint. Cows produce a lot of methane during their digestive process, and the vast majority of this methane escapes by eructation .

NASA also took a look at whether it was cow's belching or flatulence that was a bigger source of methane production. NASAContrary to common belief, it’s cow belching due to enteric fermentation. However, a small percentage of methane is also produced in the cow’s large intestine and then expelled. Settling ponds and lagoons for processing manure also produce copious amounts of this greenhouse gas.

A number of potential solutions have been proposed or enacted in order to reduce the amount of methane produced by cows. For example, a

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