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“Cows, a flash point in any discussion about climate change, may also present problems. Ruminants burp methane, and while carbon farming does not require their presence, some argue that merely accepting them on the land undermines the goal of reaching a carbon-neutral or -negative future. Livestock emissions account for almost half the heat-trapping gases associated with agriculture, so an obvious way to reduce emissions is to decrease the number of cows on the planet. Instead of dumping compost on rangeland, says Ian Monroe, a lecturer on energy and climate at Stanford University, why not allow forests cleared for pasture to regrow, and change people’s eating habits so they include less meat?”
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/magazine/dirt-save-earth-carbon-farming-climate-change.html?em_pos=small&emc=edit_ma_20180803&nl=magazine&nl_art=2&nlid=30337821emc%3Dedit_ma_20180803&ref=headline&te=1

Can Dirt Save the Earth?Agriculture could pull carbon out of the air and into the soil — but it would mean a whole new way of thinking about how to tend the land.