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Would feeding the cows grass instead of corn reduce the methane emissions?
Idk about grass specifically, but generally the answer for most standard cattle feed is no. There are seaweeds that can be added to cow's food that can help reduce methane emissions, but the most successful approach is to just stop eating cows.
Seaweed is what the World Economic Forum has been proposing for aprox a decade now. Anything not to stop or even cut down industrial meat production.
That's my understanding, and mainly because more often than not it's a holistic approach (like regenerative agriculture). But some claim that in an industrial setting this is not the case. The problem, I would argue is not really if they eat grass or corn, but where (see industrialization of meat production). This is the part that needs changing to reduce methane emissions.