Sentences with phrase «from cow farts»
Not exact matches
The major culprits are the nitrous oxide that comes from the manure created by large livestock operations, and the methane emitted in cow burps and farts.
http://discovermagazine.com/
It takes 16 calories of grain to produce just a single calorie of hamburger meat, butchered from a cow that spent its life polluting the climate with methane farts.
Combining cow farts (actually mostly burps) and emissions of CO2 and methane from cow pies with the emissions derived from fossil sources is just wrong.
A few minutes of searching turned up this Global Methane Inventory from GISS, estimating the contribution from enteric fermentation (i.e. cow farts) plus animal waste (manure) at 21 %, with rice cultivation at 12 %.
Thanks, but what is the evidence for your assertion that methane from «cow farts» is very much less important than other agricultural practices?
About 95 % of the methane from cows is actually from the burps, not the farts.
One example of leaving out context that comes to mind is the recent coverage of methane emissions from cows — cow farts and smelly cow dung — and how emissions from agriculture (worldwide) amount to more than those from transportation.