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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."
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Yes, a device will be affixed to the exhaust pipe of every cow or bull
I wonder what the unintended consequences of this will be...and there always is one.
How much gas is belched by the volcanoes in Hawaii?
Well played, madame!
A single cow produces 3 tons of methane a year? How did they measure cow farts. Did they ask the cows to measure their farts? What cow manure...
Well, that made an interesting image pop into my brain....
Went on a 4H trip to MSU when our daughter was young. They have a living cow there with a rumen with a porthole. The rumen is the biggest digestive part. Most kids could not stand the smell, very fermented because it’s supposed to be. And fermentation causes gas. It didn’t smell bad to me at all (sauerkraut maker).
Obviously they aren’t aware of the solar minimum period we are entering.
They are gonna wish and beg for global warming.
The 5 states of being:
1: - Infant
2: - Adolescent
3: - Adult
4: - Senior
5: - Gaseous
Cows farrrttt? They’ll never get on the Supreme Court.
Point of clarification from the scientists out there.
What does what happens inside the cow’s digestive system really matter?
Even if the digested food passes completely through the cow without any flatulence, you’ve still got manure on the ground that decomposes and produces the same effect.
Right? or Wrong?
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Hahahahahaha!
We live in a time of extreme paradox. Conditions in the modern western world are such that many have the luxury of living lives where the biggest concern and perceived threat comes from bovine flatulence. Generally speaking, their solutions are to return to conditions where they will no longer have the luxury of such petty trifles, and will have to deal with more legitimate base concerns such as hunger and heat.
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