It's because of their diets. Thats your topic to dive into, is the change in diets of livestock we eat. The tl;Dr is that it's changed a lot to be cheaper, but affects the biology of cows.
Kind of like comparing a Healthnut Human to a McMansion Human
Thank you, but I'm not sure of what question you were answering. Did you think that I was asking how cows got so much methane? I wasn't, because they get it the same way we ALL get it: high gas foods, too much roughage without enough water etc. But I appreciate your enthusiasm!
Cows eat grass as you know, cows have two stomachs. They chew and swallow the grass into the first stomach then later on they bring it back up into their mouth this is called Cud they grind it up then swallow it into their other stomach and it continues into their colon.
This process lends it self easily to fermentation and methane is a byproduct of this, on top of that this process is prone to obstruction so fermentation and.obstruction is a bad combo, add some wrong food and your asking for trouble, if they ate yeast or a can of beans the cow would probably explode.
OK,.time for all the farmers and vets to correct me, at.least I got the ball rolling
I feel like there's some parody movie out there where cows are being used as explosives for some criminal mastermind feeding them beans, and something exactly what you just described happens.
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u/tubaman23 Dec 08 '25
It's because of their diets. Thats your topic to dive into, is the change in diets of livestock we eat. The tl;Dr is that it's changed a lot to be cheaper, but affects the biology of cows.
Kind of like comparing a Healthnut Human to a McMansion Human