Too much methane - Slaughter them younger

Xcellor

Was listening on the radio and one of the proposed solutions to reducing methane production of beef is to slaughter them younger.

Also to get them to the required weight sooner for slaughter would require less grass fed/roaming etc and more confinement inside with bulk feed.

Shocking stuff.

Tilikum17

Are you surprised?

Xcellor

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118116304#Comment_118116304

Not really but the average joe soap might be. There is often the argument

"They had a good life ..."

Even that argument seems to be eroding if the solution is killing them younger and stopping them from the natural chewing of the cud and natural grazing... etc.

Mad Peggy

we should male a steel box to carry around to deposit methane in and then bury it with a seed

matt007

Most pigs in Ireland are grown like products in Factories..

It is as Greta said Blah blah blah!

1.7 million pigs in Ireland

They have an ideal kill weight for most profit, now they are factoring in the "carbon weight" with

no thoughts other than profits.

https://www.facebook.com/ethicalfarmingireland

GoogleBot

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058216248/too-much-methane-slaughter-them-younger

slaughter younger rise profit margin that's all it is.

DBK1

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/2058216248/too-much-methane-slaughter-them-younger

Sorry to rain on your parade but I’m afraid what you are saying is not true. The proposal is to reduce the average slaughtering age from 27 to 24 months old. There is absolutely no need for “more confinement inside with bulk feed” to achieve this.

What is required is better grassland management and cattle will naturally thrive better themselves while roaming with natural grazing and chewing of the cud as another poster has mentioned.

This will actually lead to a better life and much happier cattle as instead of being left in the one field for prolonged lengths of time they will be in smaller fields and be moved to fresh grass on a more regular basis.

Kevhog1988

https://www.boards.ie/discussion/comment/118129451#Comment_118129451

x2 plus the use of a paternal breed of bull for the dairy calf to beef route

Robert333111

Oh dear. What happens then when that radio show discovers how much methane 8 billion humans (personally) produce?

While its significantly less than for cattle, these are the figures from one website:
Quote: '[…] the average person is known to release about 0.5 grams of methane per day by farting. So 8 billion people would release a total of 4 billion grams or 4 million kilograms per day.'

Source:
I'm not yet allowed to post Links but the reader can locate the latter quote in their search engine, by searching for:
citymagazine AND "How much does your fart contribute to global warming?"