Eggs = methane?

[silverai]

The following paragraph found on the ACF website

It is worth noting that methane is a significantly more powerful contributor to global warming per molecule than Co2. We can easily decrease our contribution to its production by eating less meat and dairy and eggs. Eliminating all of these has as much effect as not driving a car and costs nothing. So if you feel that a hybrid or solar panels are unaffordable please consider changing your diet. It is an easy, healthy and economic act. More detailed info can be found by searching "vegetarian global warming". Thanks for caring

Ok, I get the meat and dairy, since cows produce plenty of methane, but eggs? I don't get eggs. Anyone got a clue they could give me?

Comments

[miss-madb.livejournal.com]

Eggs contain an ingredient which causes flatulence.
Flatulate (yes, that is indeed a noun, as well as a verb) is primarily composed of methane.

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[paperishcup.livejournal.com]

You're right, cows (or any ruminating animal..including sheep) are definitely the worst for methane.

Hmmmm, eggs...I know that a lot of the environmental reasons for not eating meat/eggs/dairy aren't just to do with the animals themselves, but to do with the fact that most livestock are grain-fed (and each animal requires a hell of a lot of grain over its lifetime- there's some impressive statistic about the amount of soybeans required to make one kilo of beef, but I can't remember it exactly) and that the agricultural processes of getting that grain have big greenhouse impacts. And I know a lot of that's to do with carbon dioxide (grain for livestock is the major reason for deforestation, and with deforestation the carbon stored in those trees is released back into the atmosphere as they break down), and also that synthetic fertilisers account for more than half of the world's emssions of nitrous oxide, which is another big greenhouse gas. But methane...I know that some types of agriculture and irrigation combined (especially rice paddies, I think?) give off lots of methane.. So maybe the egg this is also to do with feed?

Goodness, I sound like a textbook...a textbook that doesn't even give a straight answer!

In any case, buying eggs from free-range chickens is sure to be more greenhouse friendly :)

In other news, I have not forgotten you...am looking forward very much to drinking tea sometime in the nearish future! Hope all be well with you my dear xo