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Miracle drug saves planet by eliminating sheep flatulence
10:07AM ON
06/05/2008
BY
Ari Savitzky
Kiss livestock-generated methane goodbye, thanks to some plucky New Zealand fart-doctors.
New Zealand scientists claim to have developed a “flatulence inoculation” aimed at cutting down on the massive amount of methane produced by its sheep and cows.
Such animals are believed to be responsible for more than half of the country’s greenhouse gases, causing huge environmental problems.
I smell a Nobel prize… by which I mean sheep flatulence.
Apparently, the Kiwi Government keeps track of the methane being released by the extraordinarily flatulent livestock:
Sheep, cattle, goats and deer produce large quantities of gas through belching and flatulence, as their multiple stomachs digest grass.
Ruminants are responsible for about 25 per cent of the methane produced in Britain, but in countries with a large agricultural sector, the proportion is much higher.
The 45 million sheep and 10 million cattle in New Zealand burped and farted about 90 percent of that country’s methane emissions, according to government figures.
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