District of Rostock: Livestock expert: cattle farming can be climate-neutral

According to an expert in the nutrition of livestock, keeping cattle can be climate-neutral despite their methane emissions. "The grassland on which fodder for the cattle grows is a huge carbon store," said Björn Kuhla, professor of nutritional physiology at the Research Institute for Livestock Biology (FBN) in Dummerstorf in Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania. "If cattle don't eat more from grassland than grows back on the same area over a long period of time, cattle farming can be climate-neutral." That was the case up until the 18th century.