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Cow Burps Life

Good News/Bad News.

The good news is that cows only produce half the air pollution as previously thought. The bad news is that we're all breathing more cow burps than we thought.

A study at the University of California at Davis (my alma mater, Go Ags!) concluded the following:

California dairy cows produce only half the amount of air pollution as had previously been believed and, perhaps more important, most of a dairy cow's contribution to smog comes not from her manure, but from her belching, says the UC Davis scientist conducting the first controlled study of its kind.

Read the full story here.
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