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It's being called the worst disaster since the 2010 BP oil spill. But could we unknowingly be contributing to something far worse? If you are concerned about the leak, consider the following. In California, cows alone produce 687.5 million gallons of methane every single day. That's almost 1,500 times more than the disastrous leak in LA.
A single cow produces between 66 to 132 gallons of methane per day. By some accounts, emissions from cows are more dangerous than CO2 emissions from cars. Cows are to blame for a host of environmental crimes, from acid rain, from producing deserts to creating dead zones in the oceans, from poisoning rivers and drinking water to destroying coral reefs.
Think about that next time you order a steak burrito.
How and why cows produce so much methane gas? Cows, sheep, goats, giraffes, and deer belong to a class of mammals called ruminants. Most ruminants have four stomachs, two-toed feet, and store their food in the first chamber of the stomach, called the rumen, before regurgitating it. This regurgitated food is called "cud" and the animals chew it again to help further break it down to make it easier to digest. Inside of the rumen, over four hundred different kinds of microbes exist that also play a critical role in the digestion process. Several of these microbes create methane gas as a byproduct. Due to the sheer number of cows on the planet, along with the large size per cow, our tasty friends produce more methane gas than all other ruminants combined.
Why could this potentially be bad? Methane is twenty one times more potent at trapping heat from the Sun than carbon dioxide. Though it is less prevalent in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, it is, by unit, the most destructive of the greenhouse gases.
I don't think I could do without steak. Just food for thought.
I think this is a liberal diversion attempt since it is slowly being made public by the MSM that the states delay in dealing with the leak stems from the fact that Brown's sister is an exec and major stockholder in the company responsible for the leak.
This is why I'm in favor of killing cows. They're a threat that must be stopped...!! Fortunately, they're tasty, too.
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