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[7 Aug 2008 | No Comment | 29 views]

Argentina, one of the world’s largest producers of beef, is working with scientists to change the input to affect the output, so-to-speak. Cows in that country may be fed alfalfa and clover instead of the typical grain in an effort to reduce the methane created from their digestive process. Cows produce between 800 and 1,000 liters of emissions per day. Wonder how the beef will taste from alfalfa and clover-fed cows?
Read More: www.aboutmyplanet.com

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[18 Jul 2008 | No Comment | 15 views]

With all the recent concern over methane gas emitting from bovine burps, an interesting question has been posed by the team over at NewsBusters:  will we be required to buy carbon credits to offset natural bovine emissions whenever we eat meat?  While I don’t think a plan like this is eminent, it sure demonstrates a level to which the environmentalists would stoop to drive their point home.
Read More: www.newsbusters.org

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[1 Jul 2008 | No Comment | 17 views]

Scientists have concluded that injecting hormones in cows will reduce carbon emissions (and save the world!!). Growth hormones injected into cows yield more milk without having to use additional feed. While this is currently being used in the US, the EU has a moratorium on the act, citing animal rights.
Read More: www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bovine-growth-hormone-could-cut-co2-emissions-857645.html