EDITOR:
The climate alarmists would have us believe that cattle are producing so much greenhouse gas from each end that we must all go vegan to save the planet. If this is so, how come during the thousands of years after the last ice age when tens of billions of wild cattle, buffalo, wildebeest, and other ruminants roamed the grasslands of the world, the atmospheric greenhouse gases did not go way up?
Any rancher/grazier/herder knows that grass fed cattle exist in a symbiotic relationship with the grasslands on which they live. The noted Zimbabwe rancher Allan Savory has demonstrated that properly managed cattle herds actually are carbon neutral in their relationship with the grasslands, and indeed are essential to the conservation of those areas of the world. The big proviso is that they are correctly managed.
It would seem obvious that many of us eat too much meat, and we should be demanding grass-fed beef.
Then we can look at the problems of intensive pig barns and chicken houses. Certainly change is needed.
Peter Noakes,
Charlottetown
