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Cow Farts and Global Warming
Published by Darlene McFarlane in Offbeat
July 5, 2007
Experts say cows are responsible for the biggest portion of the world’s global warming.
Experts say cows are responsible for the biggest portion of the world’s Global Warming. When cows eat grass, it sits in their stomachs and ferments. This causes gas, and intestinal gas will always find a way to escape the cow.
One of the gases emitted from cow farts is methane gas. The atmosphere already has natural occurring methane but, when an over abundance occurs, it collects and joins together with other greenhouse gases. This joined gas traps the warm air surrounding our planet and as more and more warm air becomes trapped Global Warming occurs.
Although cows are not the only contributors of methane gas they are by far the largest single contributing factor. Cow farts and burps do 23 times more damage to our environment than car pollution. That’s a lot of gas causing a lot of damage but, scientists have now found a way to ease cow fart emissions.
A new preparation has been developed that neutralizes cow’s intestinal gas before it can escape the cow and, experts say as more and more farmers begin giving their cows this medication, the effect will be as great as retiring one million cars from our roads.
Could eliminating cow’s intestinal gas really be the answer to controlling global warming?
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Darlene, only a Canadian could talk about these issues so intelligently. In New Zealand, there was a lot of furore as the Government was talking of imposing a fart tax on dairy and beef farmers. Thank you for your illuminating ( not ruminating) article.
It is good to hear another viewpoint.
I think it makes much more sense to use the preparation (some people jokingly refer to it as moo-lox) than to tax farmers. Money in the government’s hand won’t stop gas from rising, will it?…….A fart tax…now that’s funny!
I certainly had a good chuckle reading your article. I am interested in the possible solution(s) to global warming, but I guess you seem to have found the answer…at least you are passing ( just a pun ) on a possible solution. Very good article.
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It’s great that your mom has decided to join us here at Triond. I will be clicking as soon as I finish here.
I have been thinking seriously of starting a forum for the writers here at Triond. It will be a place where we can chat about things other than writing, ask questions and share ideas. Have you ever wondered about the people you interact with on these pages? Let me know what you think of the idea. If we have enough interested parties I’ll set one up.
I will be looking for moderators too.
Hey and just think between the cows, horses other large
animals,and human beings, maybe, just maybe their is
a logical point to this article.
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Cows? And I thought it was volcanoes. I’ve heard places where they use the methane gas from collected cow dung (and pig dung too) to make biogas. Now THAT’s a good, renewable energy source!
I had read about cow farts but I didn’t know they had discovered way to neutralize the gas.
I just thought I’d re-visit this article. I’m not sure about an idea discussion forum right now, but something to think about in the future. Again, it’s a very good article, though it slightly twisted my thoughts on the subject.
Regarding my article on bottled water, I would like to add that we pay $ .50 per gallon of the store brand of bottled water, which would drastically change the yearly figure I originally posted, from about $ 5,800. to $ 362. per year.
WOW! Who’d a thunk it! Cow farts…too funny.
I’m all for a forum!! I vote yes, I need all the help I can get.
Too cool… you should be writing comedy for TV. With all the writers on strike you might get lucky. It amazes me to think that our planet has had atmosphere and climate for a tad over 6 billion years and that after 140 years of data we presume to be able to determine what the climate chages will be and the causes of them. We can’t even predict rain 2 days in advance. Did anyone do the math here? Cows are 23 times worse than cars but the result of farmers medicating cows will equal 1 million cars removed from the roads? Toyota alone produced over 800,000 cars in 2007. How many cars does she think there are on the planet? My advice is simple… Get a life and get a real job.
I have one question for you do you live on a ranch and trail cows where you havew to trail behind them? Well I have lived on a ranch for my whole life I was born on a ranch and I have never seen a cow fart or heard one fart. Both my parents where even born and have been raised chasing cattle for 50 years and neither of them have heard a cow fart.
kylene, Thank you for commenting. The experts didn’t say you had to see or hear a cow fart for it to be so. The word is used for reference. Fart is a sure fire way for readers to know what you are referring to…”cows who leak or seep gas” sound more like a leaky car tire. It may not be politically correct but it is better understood and…yes, I have stood behind a cow and never heard a single note.
When, my girlfriend told me today that cow farts play a major role in global warming, I said, “C’mon, you’re crazy.” Now I see she was correct, unless she conspired with y’all in concocting this absolutely unbelievable story. As to Kylene’s comment of February 7, 2008, cow’s are very similar to my girlfriend in that they would rather explode than to release a noisy flatulance. I’ve never heard a cow or my girlfriend fart.
kind of weird but cool
wow, this is interesting, i never heard about this before,
I’m glad you have it posted again, thanks for sharing Darlene
Very interesting, Darlene.
I like your idea about a forum for Triond writers. Maybe Triond would be interested in hosting it. Can’t say much about cows, but I lived on a goat ranch once and never heard any untoward sounds. When the “experts” change gears and begin facing up to the real threat of global cooling then they may wish they had left those cows to their own devices, however.
Very interesting reading.
Great work Darlene. I’ve read that a large amount of harmful methane that escapes from cows does not come out the way we like to believe. I’ve read that because it’s funnier to say ‘cow fart’ we prefer to say this instead of ‘burp’ and it’s actually their burps that’s worse than the farts.
This is what I’ve read, I really do not know enough about it to have a firm opinion on it.
Keep up the good work.
And you said my work was good…. I never even new that!!
Keep it up!
Great article! This is nice to know, thanks.
Yes, I think sometimes we’re too paranoid about global warming.
The best article I’ve read in a long time. Good one. Glad to know we have people out there dedicating their lives to studying cow farts.
Things that make ya go hmmm?
You can always trust a cow fat “expert”.
Any chance of using cow fart as an alternative energy source?
^^^ thats a really good idea but they would have to use like some kind of plug hahaaa!
cool article btw.
GOOD IDEA, FARMERS ARE NOT PAYING FOR THIS TAX, WE ARE!!!!
Niether Man nor beast can change the climate. Don\’t be soooo gullible.
Let cows be cows. Start giving cows antacids and they will develop stomach problems. Maybe this drug will get into the milk and meat.
THEN WHAT? Birth defects, more liberals being born, and other horrible things like that. What if their cow paddies become toxic becasue of the drug. Get into the water supply.
Get off global warming it\’s a money pit.
What warmed up the earth after other ice ages?
There were no cars or other man made devices then.
Don\’t get confused between pollution and climate.
If people really want to see their food prices go up, let this cow fart thing continue, and JJ you are complety right.
If politians worldwide were able to open their brains and close their mouths the earths temperture would drop 10 degrees overnight. The sky is falling mentality that these great minds are going to save us from. Poor cows probally have more brains than the politicans.
Cow fart tax to sad to be funny.
you guys are haveing fun now about this crazy tax but when you will have to give $10.00 to $15.00 dollers for a gallon of milk.or cant even buy meat how funny will it be then.when the farmer has to pay $175.oo dollers for every cow he has who dose the cost end up with thank about it.every thang you buy that has milk or meat in it will go out of site.
its kinda of a good and bad thing its good it helps stop global warming but then the stuff in the cow might get in us when u think about it
wow thats funny and sad at the same time!
Now if we could just run our cars on cow gas – problem solved!
I think that taxing farmers because of cow farts is the worst idea! That tax money will not be spent to save the world from ‘cow gas,’ It will be spent on something that will continue to bring down the working peole. I am so tired of all the men and women that work so hard to make and honest living being shut down and bent over by the government. Let’s continue to kiss the butt of the dumb rich people of the world and hurt the hard working farmers….it’s working great so far!—that’s why goverment has to come up with these ideas now!
Cows have been farting since cows came into being. I wonder why the need to tax the farmers when the problem caused by too many automobiles has not yet been fully addressed globally.
Ok, now scientists are pushing the blame to cows. “They cause global warming!” They said. What a ‘great’ excuse to human beings. We humans are over-abusing our Earth’s resources, and we humans are releasing a lot of Carbon Dioxides and smoke that comes from factories and vehicles, and we humans are now saying that “cows are to blame”? That’s ridiculous! How much methane gas can be produced by each and every cows in the world compared to Carbon Dioxide and smoke produced by we humans? And now we’re pushing the responsibilities to the Nature? Absurd!