Cows bred to burp less…

By Offthefern • July 6th, 2010

……WILL HELP REDUCE POTENT GREENHOUSE GAS AND TACKLE GLOBAL WARMING!!!!

Apprarantly a prototype cow which burps less is being bred in a breakthrough that could reduce a big source of the greenhouse gasses responsible for global warming.

Farm animals are responsible for nearly three quarters of total methane emissions with most of the gas coming from bovine burps, which are 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas.

Already using other techniques like diet and special feeds it is estimated that they can reduce cow emissions by 12% So if every farmer in the United States reduced their cattle emmissions by 12% it would be the equal to about half a million cars being taken off the road. Funny I thought they wanted to encourage wind power!

 

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