Lesson for teenagers included how cattle’s methane emissions contribute to climate crisis, but it was then scrapped
A beef industry-funded effort to teach teenagers about cattle’s climate impact was quietly scrapped following backlash from some ranchers, who disputed the premise that cows contribute to global heating.
The episode is the latest example of the livestock industry’s decades-long battle to determine what US children learn about cows and the climate.
The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture (AFBFA) and its Food and Agriculture Center for Science Education produce a free science curriculum used by around 1.2m students across more than 100 school districts nationwide.
You can estimate from being able to measure on individual cows across breeds and extrapolating
It’s not based on breed but on diet.
The reason I ask is that the oil industry is lies. We rely largely on their own self reporting for tracking Methane leaks after Trump took the satellite offline.
It was brand new, and he ordered NASA to deorbit it. That’s a bit more drastic than taking it offline.