Paul Saladino· MD
because of the way it affects the ozone layer fine but you know animals on the earth do do contribute to greenhouse gases whether it's whether it's chickens or pigs or cows or whatever but that methane goes into the environment and becomes carbon dioxide over the course of about ten years it comes out to that so we're just tracking the carbon right so the cows burp you get methane going up you get a carbon atom in a ch4 methane molecule ten years later in the atmosphere it's carbon dioxide well where does that carbon dioxide carbon go it goes into plants right plants inhale carbon dioxide they fix it into carbohydrates in a process known as photosynthesis they have photorespiration that same carbon that came out of a cow is now in a carbohydrate in a piece of grass and the cow comes right back and eats it again and that carbon goes into the cow and gets burped out that carbon is just circulating there's no new carbon in that equation