The EU Parliament's Agriculture Committee wants to exclude cattle and other livestock from plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions: https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/agriculture-meps-ask-to-exclude-cows-from-emission-cutting-plans/
Cattle are responsible for 68-74 per cent of livestock emissions. Methane from cattle is shorter lived than carbon dioxide but is estimated to be 28 times more potent in warming the atmosphere.
In 2018 methane emissions from enteric fermentation in digestive systems of ruminant livestock continued to be the largest single component of farm-gate emissions. Enteric fermentation is a natural part of the digestive process in ruminant animals such as cattle, sheep, goats, and buffalo. This is a digestive process as enzymes in their gut break down grass, hay and other feed. Microbes in the digestive tract, or rumen, decompose and ferment food, producing methane as a by-product. The gas, which builds up in stomachs, is then emitted largely through their burps
