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For estimating emissions, a better proxy is probably the mass of all the cattle in the world.

There might not be more individual cattle, but they've been engineered to grow bigger - and, by extension, eat bigger meals, poop bigger poops, and fart bigger farts.

[beat]

Has that actually changed much in the past several decades, though?

[bunderbunder]

By about 30% between 1975 and 2005.

https://www.beefmagazine.com/genetics/0201-increased-beef-co...