The primary subjects of cattle and ruminant research are udder health as well as diseases associated with calves ... The factors contributing to this are investigated at the calf, cow and farm levels.
And most of that comes from cows. A cow is a ruminant, an animal with four chambers in its stomach. The first chamber is called the rumen, which has an enzyme that creates methane as a byproduct ...
Production of smaller ruminant animals, such as sheep and goats ... the annual GHG footprint of beef produced from the average cow in the world is 300 kilograms of CO2 equivalent per kg of ...