There's a new fear-porn propaganda meme: insects as food. The message in that meme is the world is so overpopulated that we need to eat insects to avoid global climate change and the other catastrophe du jour. One of the pieces of "evidence" they cite to support the insect meme is that cows fart, and that's going to destroy the world.
Prior to settlement by Europeans, there were an estimated 30-60 million bison in the United States. Now there are about 30 million cows. A point I make over and over again in my blog is that our agricultural system might by the original sin, pandora's box mistake our ancient ancestors made, and we keep making, not because it's causing climate change, but really it seems like a kind of foolish, self-defeating activity. If anything, there were more bison or other mega-fauna herbivore critters prior to the 1600's than today.
The gut bacteria of bison were probably converting as much plant matter into methane as cow gut bacteria do today. If the cows and bison weren't there, the plant matter would be breaking down in other ways.
The propaganda criticism of the system by the "left", however, isn't aimed at improving anything. It's just stupid lies by grifting psychopaths.
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