Climate change: We need to pay attention to animal agriculture By Hope Mutesi
Animal agriculture is a leading source of climate chaos, generating more greenhouse gas emissions than all cars, trucks and other transportation modes. For example, methane comes from cows, and is 70 times more damaging than carbon dioxide emissions. Livestock are known to produce a substantial amount methane during their digestion. Ruminant animals - goats, sheep and cattle – which are the animals largely kept in Uganda, can digest coarse materials from plants, which can produce methane from the digestion, and the animals release them to the atmosphere through belching.