For those of you writing about the environment and pollution this might be a good source:
| Cows That Burp Less Methane to Be Bred |
| from the belching-bovines dept. |
| posted by samzenpus on Wednesday June 24, @13:23 (Earth) |
| http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/06/24/1710252 |
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Canadian scientists are [0]breeding a type of cow that burps less, in an
attempt to reduce greenhouse gases. Cows are responsible for almost 75%
of total methane emissions, mostly coming from burps. Stephen Moore,
professor of agricultural, food and nutritional science at the University
of Alberta, hopes the refined bovines will produce 25 per cent less
methane. Nancy Hirshberg, spokesman for Stonyfield Farm says, "If every
US dairy farmer reduced emissions by 12 per cent it would be equal to
about half a million cars being taken off the road."

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Links:
0. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5612957/Cows-that-burp-less-methane-to-be-bred.html