I don’t want to get too far into the weeds on this, but a reader has a good question about the evils of all our methane-emitting cattle:

What I’ve never understood is where all the methane from the buffalos went. . . .There were millions and millions of buffalo in America when the white man showed up. . . .there were so many they used to come East over the Appalachians to graze on the lush Piedmont plateau areas of eastern America. The early descriptions of buffalo herds makes it clear there were far more buffalo then that we have cattle now. I think they were emitting a lot of methane. . . .