Study: Meat, Eggs, and Dairy Causes 65% of all Nitrous Oxide Emissions, Which is 296 Times Worse than Carbon Dioxide

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The Bovine Flatulence Blasphemy

We are a planet being asphyxiated by the hot air of its own livestock. A noxious effluvium of ruminant redemption that would make even the most ardent fire-and-brimstone preacher blush. For what could be more unholy than the profane act of animal agriculture itself?

Let’s dispense with the niceties and confront this ungodly abomination head-on. The numbers don’t lie — that bacon you had for breakfast helped contribute to 65% of the world’s nitrous oxide emissions. An invisible, creeping menace 296 times more potent as an atmospheric force than its more famous cousin carbon dioxide.

Nitrous oxide, or N2O, the risible riposte of the dairy industry. The mirthful miasma that wafts from every barn and milking shed across this benighted land. An indiscriminate killer cloaked in bucolic lore about the nobility of the family farm.