The whole things is stupid from the start: first, considering that the cattle we have now isn't all that much more than there used to be wild ruminants like bison before they got replaced by cows, what I found for northern America was 100 million cows today vs estimation of about 65 million bison before western expansion in the 19th century. And bison are not the only wild ruminants.
Why would changing bison mostly to cattle be such a huge problem that we now should get rid of cattle?
So if we assume cattle is worse when it comes to methane production than the bison, from the way their stomachs work -pretty similar - that could probably be fixed by changing their diet a bit.
And then, if you want to keep any prairie you will need animals that can graze there. Cattle or bison? There doesn't seem to be that big a difference when it comes to how they behave, both work for that, and the differences - like cattle liking water while bison tend to avoid it more - can be managed.
Hm. These "kill the cows!" people never say "kill the bison!" too, they rather seem to talk about how it would be good to have more of them.
The whole things is stupid from the start: first, considering that the cattle we have now isn't all that much more than there used to be wild ruminants like bison before they got replaced by cows, what I found for northern America was 100 million cows today vs estimation of about 65 million bison before western expansion in the 19th century. And bison are not the only wild ruminants.
Why would changing bison mostly to cattle be such a huge problem that we now should get rid of cattle?
So if we assume cattle is worse when it comes to methane production than the bison, from the way their stomachs work -pretty similar - that could probably be fixed by changing their diet a bit.
And then, if you want to keep any prairie you will need animals that can graze there. Cattle or bison? There doesn't seem to be that big a difference when it comes to how they behave, both work for that, and the differences - like cattle liking water while bison tend to avoid it more - can be managed.
Hm. These "kill the cows!" people never say "kill the bison!" too, they rather seem to talk about how it would be good to have more of them.