Posted by
Average Voter on Sunday, September 07, 2008 9:28:14 PM
You remember the
UN study showing that cows are the biggest polluters of all, right?
Well, they are fixing that problem.
New mixtures of foods produced for cattle are helping to reduce the methane productiion from their burping and other places.
The secret is to cut straw or hay into strips 6cm-7cm long and to mix them with silage, wheat, maize, soya or sugar beet. A dairy cow needs only 4.4lb (2kg) a day, a tiny percentage of the 130lb daily ration of forage it would otherwise eat.
Horay for the planet! Now I can keep eating steak and drinking milk without feeling guilty!