Cows have frequently gotten a bad wrap when it comes to the environment because they are well-known as methane producers. (Methane is 100 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide. Greenhouse gases are responsible for trapping heat in the atmosphere, causing ultimate rises in temperature, which contributes to climate change).
cows are gassy animals
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bovine gastrointestinal distress causes methane
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methane leads to raised greenhouse gas
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higher greenhouse gasses lead to climate change
therefore: cows → climate change
What if the inverse was true:
If we could eliminate cows having gastrointestinal distress
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we could diminish methane
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we could diminish greenhouse gases
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we could lower our risk of growing climate change!!
There seems to a way we in fact can do that. Dried seaweed seems to be the answer...to this cow problem and a couple others! Cheers once again to science and innovation!
Video from https://www.facebook.com/DavidAvocadoWolfe/videos/10154720612001512/; graph from https://medium.com/@SFGillman/can-we-make-cow-burps-climate-friendly-f9709048f226; cow meme from https://giphy.com/gifs/ficazo-facts-cow-cows-3o6ZsSTf6i7ncd5TvW
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