{"id":842,"date":"2009-06-05T20:16:46","date_gmt":"2009-06-06T02:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.envirobeat.com\/?p=762"},"modified":"2009-06-05T20:16:46","modified_gmt":"2009-06-06T02:16:46","slug":"greening-the-herds-trying-to-limit-cows-emissions-nytimescom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=842","title":{"rendered":"Greening the Herds &#8211; Trying to Limit Cows&#039; &#039;Emissions&#039; &#8211; NYTimes.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Frank Mitloehner, a University of California, Davis, professor who places cows in air-tight tent enclosures and measures what he calls their \u201ceruptions,\u201d says the average cow expels \u2014 through burps mostly, but some flatulence \u2014 200 to 400 pounds of methane a year.<\/p>\n<p>More broadly, with worldwide production of milk and beef expected to double in the next 30 years, the United Nations has called livestock one of the most serious near-term threats to the global climate. In a 2006 report that looked at the environmental impact of cows worldwide, including forest-clearing activity to create pasture land, it estimated that cows might be more dangerous to Earth\u2019s atmosphere than trucks and cars combined.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>via <a href='http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/05\/us\/05cows.html?_r=2&#038;em'>Greening the Herds &#8211; Trying to Limit Cows&#8217; &#8216;Emissions&#8217; &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Frank Mitloehner, a University of California, Davis, professor who places cows in air-tight tent enclosures and measures what he calls their \u201ceruptions,\u201d says the average cow expels \u2014 through burps mostly, but some flatulence \u2014 200 to 400 pounds of methane a year. More broadly, with worldwide production of milk and beef expected to double [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}