I don't know what to think about this..

[Simmgal]

Is this a jab at the cattle industry, or something worth chuckling at? Maybe both! Cattle may CONTRIBUTE to the methane problem, but did the activists forget about all of that hot air around D.C.?
Including their own...  <deadhorse>

I'm no scientist or politician by any means..see what you think:

http://methanemadness.cfact.org/
(cow)

 

[SeannyT]

This made me laugh regardless of any truth behind it or not. What really gets me (and I've learned that some cattle people don't realize this either) is that almost all of the methane cattle release comes from the other end, not the ass. Methane mostly comes from fermentation in the rumen, not out the back end.

Truth be told, cattle are significant contributors of methane in the world, which is actually a worse GHG than CO2, but then you think back hundreds of thousands of years: how many million buffalo used to roam North America and "burp" out methane  before cows were domesticated? To blame cattle for global warming or whatever they are trying to find a blame for now is ridiculous.

 

[knabe]

Rumensin reduces methane production from cattle.

Methanophiles were largely unknown until recently.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/01/07/deepwater_horizon_metane_bacteria/

Bacteria even eat oil and are slowed down or killed by our obsession to clean up after oil spills.