Grass or Grain? What Cows Are Fed Could Determine Farms’ Carbon Footprints

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By Cristen Hemingway JaynesDec 15, 2023, 12:17 pm221 pts
If you’re looking to lower your carbon footprint, one of the best things you can do is to eat less beef or eliminate it from your diet. That’s because when cows burp, they release methane into the atmosphere, a greenhouse gas with a global heating potential of 28 to 34 times that of carbon dioxide over a…

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