California’s Top Methane Emitter is a Vast Cattle Feedlot. For Now, Federal and State Greenhouse Gas Regulators Are Giving It a Pass. - Inside Climate News
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Forty miles north of the U.S.-Mexico border in Southern California’s Imperial Valley, the Brandt Company cattle ranch is the largest single point source of methane emissions in the state, releasing more of that greenhouse gas than any oil or gas well, refinery or landfill.  The 643-acre feedlot is home to 139,000 beef cattle, according to […]
    • Changetheview@lemmy.world
      71·
      11 months ago

      Places like this are frankly disgusting. Just driving past them is sickening, both physically and to the thought that part of the food supply comes from that. The cows that live in these environments, even for short times, simply cannot be healthy. Eating the meat from animals spending time in these conditions cannot healthy be either.

  • dillekant@slrpnk.net
    4·
    11 months ago

    Funny how people are all “free market” until the market gives an outcome they don’t like. In this case we should remove whatever regulation exempts this sort of behavior by feed lots. If you want to pollute you must pay.