Cure for cow flatulence cooked up by scientists
LONDON (Reuters) - Cows belching and breaking wind cause methane pollution but scientists say they have developed a diet to make pastures smell like roses — almost.
“In some experiments we get a 70 percent decrease (in methane emissions), which is quite staggering,” biochemist John Wallace told Reuters in a telephone interview.
Wallace, leader of the microbial biochemistry group at the Rowett Research Institute in Aberdeen, said the secret to sweeter-smelling cows is a food additive based on fumaric acid, a naturally occurring chemical essential to respiration of animal and vegetable tissues.
November 19th, 2006 at 1:01 am
I’m trying to convince my boyfriend that at one time when i worked on a farm…there was an ingredient that we used on an utter to help with “samonelo”, an ingredient that we used was flour, terpentine, and water. do you remember this and can you confirm with me for proof to my boyfriend..
thanking you in advance
kim