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ArishMell · 70-79, M
No, but better farming practices will.
I don't think anyone is seriously calling for a cull (just let the herds dwindle normally) but it seems the whole anti-cattle thing came from a poor-quality report to the UN that looked at cattle-farming only in areas of the USA not really suited to the animals, so needing considerable quantities of extra feed-stuffs.
They did not consider countries and regions where animals can be farmed sustainably. A lot of British farmers are now doing that by turning to what is rather pretentiously called "Regenerative Farming". Actually it is reverting to what had been the practice since the 18C, of carefully-managed crops, fallow and animal rotations.
An increasing number of farms are also using slurry-digesters to ferment manure to produce methane that can be used as heating or engine fuel, and fertiliser.
Besides, in the right conditions, all decaying or fermenting, dead vegetable matter, in the ground or inside any animal including we humans, evolves both methane and carbon-dioxide naturally.
I should add I have no connection to agriculture but my leisure interests do take me into the countryside so I make a point of trying to understand the industry, I am not a rabid vegan (if that's not self-contradictory) nor one of the abandon-the-countryside "re-wilders" and second-home buyers. I do though, rather like to eat.
I don't think anyone is seriously calling for a cull (just let the herds dwindle normally) but it seems the whole anti-cattle thing came from a poor-quality report to the UN that looked at cattle-farming only in areas of the USA not really suited to the animals, so needing considerable quantities of extra feed-stuffs.
They did not consider countries and regions where animals can be farmed sustainably. A lot of British farmers are now doing that by turning to what is rather pretentiously called "Regenerative Farming". Actually it is reverting to what had been the practice since the 18C, of carefully-managed crops, fallow and animal rotations.
An increasing number of farms are also using slurry-digesters to ferment manure to produce methane that can be used as heating or engine fuel, and fertiliser.
Besides, in the right conditions, all decaying or fermenting, dead vegetable matter, in the ground or inside any animal including we humans, evolves both methane and carbon-dioxide naturally.
I should add I have no connection to agriculture but my leisure interests do take me into the countryside so I make a point of trying to understand the industry, I am not a rabid vegan (if that's not self-contradictory) nor one of the abandon-the-countryside "re-wilders" and second-home buyers. I do though, rather like to eat.