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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 2 years ago

A Texas Dairy Ranks Among the State’s Biggest Methane Emitters. But Don’t Ask the EPA or the State About It

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A Texas Dairy Ranks Among the State’s Biggest Methane Emitters. But Don’t Ask the EPA or the State About It

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A Texas Dairy Ranks Among the State’s Biggest Methane Emitters. But Don’t Ask the EPA or the State About It - Inside Climate News
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Three years ago, North Dumas Farms was an empty field near the northern edge of the Texas Panhandle. Today it is a massive dairy operation—and one of the largest greenhouse gas emitters in the state. The dairy is permitted to hold up to 72,500 cows, whose burps and manure would produce an estimated 13,096 metric […]
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    @leafn4give @silence7

    The potential is certainly there. As well as liberating land for wildlife, there can be zones used for growing food using agroecological farming methods, which can also provide habitat for a variety of wildlife & locations for housing.

    FYI, when you write “research has shown” please provide a weblink too that research, so that people that haven’t read the relevant research & or science-based report can read it.

    Fundamentally, mono-industrial farming is unsustainable.

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      @empiricism @silence7 Oxford academic Joseph Poore reported his research in this video https://www.youtube.com/live/zBi8QIc1qXg?feature=share. See also https://josephpoore.com/Science%20360%206392%20987%20-%20Accepted%20Manuscript.pdf and https://animal.law.harvard.edu/…/Eating-Away-at-Climate

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