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by steve_adams_86 1452 days ago
I’m not actually suggesting we all only eat beans. If anything something like a few servings per day seems like the recommendation in plant based diets (around 2 imperial cups/500ml of cooked legumes?)

I’m not aware of legumes producing any significant amount of methane. Can you point me to that information?

At a glance I’ve found a few studies suggesting high-tannin legumes can reduce methane when fed to livestock:

https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4279&...

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I was making an elaborate fart joke.
Haha how did I miss that!? My bad.