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by EverywhereTrip 1711 days ago
A cow eating grass isn't eating sequestered carbon. It's part of the carbon cycle. It is a living organism eating a living plant. If a ruminant doesn't graze a grassland, it needs to burn...which releases carbon. If neither one of those things happen, the grassland will die and decompose.

Grasslands and ruminants co-evolved.

Sequestered carbon would be underground. If there were no fossil fuels dug out of the ground and burned, there are no amount of cows that could cause a problem with warming.

ALL ruminant animals produce methane. Deer, moose, elk, antelope all do. It is part of fermentation.

A cow eating grass is more carbon neutral than other things people try to pass off like biodiesel.