Cows are milked at a dairy farm at the University of California, Davis, where researchers are studying whether adding small amounts of seaweed to cattle feed can help reduce their emissions of methane. Terry Chea AP
As tomato harvest hits full capacity and the almond harvest begins to ramp up, global leaders will gather in San Francisco this month to promote continued action on climate change.
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Exposing the Big Game 
This is just my opinion, but what a propaganda piece. You cannot reduce methane emissions from cattle, or enough to make a difference (if at all), especially with relentless population growth, and the world’s increasing demand for meat and dairy! Almond groves use incredible amounts of water that the state of California does not have.
These pie-in-the-sky articles really do more harm than good, and really insult the intelligence.
I’m glad someone pointed that out. The average person may “believe” in climate change, but in such a limited way (thanks to these type of articles in the mainstream media).
Yes! I don’t think people see or want to see that their activities have created climate change. Finding ways to try to keep on eating meat, for example, is just trying to hang on to a certain lifestyle without facing that the real (and only!) way to cut down on methane is to eat less meat.
Modern diets are terrible in the amount of meat – and most cultures’ traditional foods contained much less than people eat today.
At the rate people eat meat the world over, the oceans will not only be depleted of fish one day (soon), but of seaweed!
Right; and the oceans are changing fast, so it’s not a solution…