Methane emissions from herbivores have always existed

Greenhouse gas emissions by large herbivores are not a phenomenon these days. Professor Pulina clarifies this issue, and reveals a noteworthy aspect: if we eliminated all farms and animals were free to graze in nature, their contribution to greenhouse gases would be exactly the same.

It seems paradoxical that in a world where thousands of tons of greenhouse gases from cars, planes, ships, power plants, factories, landfills, rice fields, etc. are discharged into the atmosphere every day, we want to blame the flatulence of farmed herbivorous animals for the greenhouse effect and climate change, a completely natural phenomenon with very ancient origins.

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