Posted on 10/03/2018 1:11:59 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
BIERE, Switzerland - Cows burp and fart more than they need to, according to a Swiss firm that says it has developed a feed that cuts methane emissions from livestock - helping to combat global warming into the bargain.
A single cow produces the equivalent of about three tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, says Agolin, based in Biere, near Lausanne. Co-founder and managing director Kurt Schaller told Reuters its specialist feed can reduce that by 10 percent.
"We sell our mixture for around 1 million cows per year... There are 25-28 million cows in the European Union, so it is a big percentage," he said. "That represents 300,000 tonnes of CO2 reduction today."
The United Nations says livestock farming alone is responsible for up to 18 percent of the greenhouse gases that contribute to global warming.
Nearly a quarter of that comes from bovine flatulence.
"A farmer does not get a cent if he reduces his methane production," said technical director Beatrice Zweifel. "That is starting to change a little bit, however, for example in California, where farmers must reduce their methane production by 40 percent."
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
hahahahahahahaha!
Stop it! You’re killing me!
Boof for beef.
My cows said they were born this way and that removing their chance to choose was a form of digestivist oppression.
A single cow produces the equivalent of about three tonnes of carbon dioxide per year, says Agolin, based in Biere, near Lausanne.
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WTF!
I saw the title and I was about to come in here and praise someone for actually wanting to do something about a REAL greenhouse gas, methane, because cows are purported to emit a lot of it. Here I read the article excerpt and it’s the same old BS focus on CO2 which has negligible greenhouse properties and redily feeds into the eco-systems beneficially anyway.
So here we have cows helping plants, and they want to stop it.
I'd like to force-feed some of this to congress!
Less beans?
Why not catalytic converters?
This stuff is so misleading. Are you talking cattle on feed, on range, in dairy lots, what? The biggest methane source is dairy ponds, not the cattle/cows. Well managed cattle/pasture actually sequester more carbon than they produce. Environmentalism IS socialism. It is all about controlling the means of production.
but makes the Meat and Milk taste like Farts
cows burp and fart more than they need to? so does my old man. Bring on that feed.
“Less beans?”
No, they’re straight.
Want to bet the cows don’t like it? Don’t mess with mother nature.
Pull my hoof
Nonsense. Addressing a non-existent problem.
If the cows don’t burp or fart, they run the risk of exploding!
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