How to pronounce “ruminant” in English

They're killing off prairie dogs and ground squirrels that could dig holes that the cattle could fall into, even rounding up and killing buffalo--so native ruminant animals, because they're competing with the cattle for feed.So we're destroying these entire native ecosystems in order to make them suitable for free-range cattle.

I mean it currently isn't, isn't it?Well, ruminant grazing animals especially do.

A report from the United Nations found that animal agriculture creates more greenhouse gas emissions than all the planes, trains, and cars in the entire world all added up together.Part of the reason for this is that ruminant animals like cows and sheep, lambs-- actually burp methane, which is 20 times worsefor climate change than carbon dioxide.

changed a system that seemed hopeless.In one sense, ruminant animals are pretty miraculous.

of their lives to fatten them up to reach market weight.The other big problem is that while there are certain ecosystems that do benefit from having grazing ruminant animals, there is a limit to how many animalsthat land can sustain-- it's called a carrying capacity.

Yeah, so I think when you take the animal out of the equation, you just solve so many issues.And so a lot of the public health issues, for example, or the environment, directly come from having the animal there, like cows' ruminantsystem producing greenhouse gases and whatnot.