Bob Lutz may not have cows to kick around anymore.
Lutz, the voluble vice chairman of General Motors, tries on occasion to divert some blame for global warming from cars to cattle. Indeed, livestock flatulence does produce methane, a more powerful greenhouse gas than the carbon dioxide that comes from motor vehicles.
“Will somebody please talk to the cows?” he thundered at an Automotive News World Congress a few years ago.
It turns out somebody is, if not talking to cows, at least trying to curb their “emissions.”
With world leaders gathered in Bali, Indonesia, for a major global-warming conference recently, climate-conscious people were taking a fresh look at Australian research into animal digestion.
Scientists concluded that a bacterium found in kangaroos keeps the animals from producing methane. If the bug can be made to work in cattle and sheep, they, too, would stop emitting methane and would get more nutrition from their food.
– Automotive News
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