CALIFORNIA, Nov 25 — A scientist guides a long tube into the mouth and down to the stomach of Thing 1, a two-month-old calf that is part of a research project aiming to prevent...
Professor Ermias Kebreab has long studied sustainable livestock practices and pushes back against calls to reduce meat consumption to save the planet. — AFP picRM10 bonusCALIFORNIA, Nov 25 — A scientist guides a long tube into the mouth and down to the stomach of Thing 1, a two-month-old calf that is part of a research project aiming to prevent cows from burping methane, a potent greenhouse gas.
“Almost half of the increase in temperature that we’ve had so far, it’s been because of methane,” said Ermias Kebreab, an animal science professor at UC Davis. Using the rumen liquid samples, the scientists are studying the microbes that convert hydrogen into methane, which is not digested by the cow but instead burped out.Professor Ermias Kebreab has long studied sustainable livestock practices and pushes back against calls to reduce meat consumption to save the planet. — AFP picThing 1 and other calves receive a seaweed-supplemented diet to reduce methane production.
IGI scientists are trying to identify the right microbe — the one they hope to genetically alter to supplant methane-producing microbes.“Not only are we trying to reduce methane emissions, but you also increase the feed efficiency,” said Kebreab.
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