It took researchers from Cornell to tell the real story of how much manure cows actually create. The comparisons also expose a paradigm that requires land mass to dispose of bovine waste that does not exist for human waste.
Source: Hoard’s Dairyman, June 26, 2017.
A lawsuit filed against the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation claimed that a herd of 200 cows produced the same amount of waste as a city of 96,000 people. In a fact-finding, research-based comparison, Cornell’s researchers debunked the lawsuit claim showing that pound-for-pound one cow produces as much urine and feces as 42 people. Using that math, a herd of 200 cows would make the same amount of waste as 8,400 people.