Oregano Moves Cows Toward Climate Neutral

nationalgeographic ^ | September 27, 2010

[JoeProBono]

[MHGinTN]

Works as well as ‘Bean-o’ with people as well.

[CitizenM]

What a job doing this research. Let’s see...you feed a cow oregano and then stand in the field to see how many times the cow passes gas. Great work for a college grad in an R & D lab.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Great work for a college grad in an R & D lab.

Or a democrat......

[Peter from Rutland]

OMG this is SO stupid.

The problem is that cows are not meant to eat corn and the other crap (literally sometimes) that they are fed. This is why they are blowing off so much gas.

Cows eat grass. DUH! Try grass fed beef sometime. You’ll never go back.

[The_Reader_David]

By all means, include oregano in cattle feed. Anything that mitigates greenhouse gas emissions and doesn’t hobble the economy should by all means be done to placate the computer-model-worshippers.

Of course, be ready to reverse course and encourage methane production in cattle farts if the Russian climatologists who are expecting an Ice Age turn out to be right.

[Jim W N]

Oregano Moves Cows Toward Climate Neutral...cows in the U.S. emit about 5.5 million metric tons of methane per year

Yes, but it takes about 55 million metric tons of methane-producing manure to produce enough oregano to keep cows from gassing the earth...

[GulchBound]

Don’t use too much of that Oregano... we’re going to need all that cow flatulance once global cooling kicks in. We’ll be feeding them more beans.

I wonder how much we pay these scientists to come up with solutions for cow farts. If these scientists would just stop breathing, there wouldn’t be as much carbon dioxide in the air — don’t they care about the global warming crisis?

/sarc

[AngelesCrestHighway]

But can the cow still say San Bernardino in burb talk?...Therein lies the real problem.

[tal hajus]

People are PAID to do this “research”? Great pic.

[Sacajaweau]

My aunt would make me Bay Leaf tea..w/ honey for tummy aches.

[VRWCmember]

But the real question is does it make the meat taste better?

[frithguild]

Great - pizza flavored milk.

[Sacajaweau]

I think you have to think about this. But, are these farts nutrients for the plants in the field??

[thackney]

In a strange and totally unrelated coincidence, I just decided today to start adding oregano to all my wife’s food.

[MHGinTN]

;^) Well, on that note, I wonder what Al Goreghoul's lung capacity is? He seems to spew a lot of greenhouse gas don'tchaknow. BTW, can we assume, based upon Al's scientific assertion of millions of degrees of heat just a few miles down in the Earth's mantle, that our land masses will soon be sinking and the seas evaporating? ... Such a world view these fool progressives have! Just a little truth could do so much for them, but alas, they eschew it.

[Sacajaweau]

Watch out....They’ll be adding oragano to the school milk and Seniors’ Meals on Wheels.

[AngelesCrestHighway]

...."it also can reduce the amount of methane in cow burps" BBRRAAAAAP.......

[JoeProBono]

The classic: Homemade tomato sauce, fresh cow's milk mozzarella and mozzarella di bufala, sweet Italian sausage, fresh oregano, all drizzled with some olive oil.

[dblshot]

I suspect this study was funded by Big Oregano