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Environmental Impact
Overview
Flatulence is often blamed as a significant source of greenhouse gases owing to the erroneous belief that the methane released by livestock is in the flatus.[1] While livestock account for around 20% of global methane emissions,[2] 90 to 95% of that is released by exhaling orburping.[3] This means only 1–2% of global methane emissions come from livestock flatus.
References
- ↑ ABC Southern Queensland: "Could skippy stop cows farting and end global warming?" Friday, 3 February 2006. Example of error. Although the article doesn't specify whether the methane is released by flatulence or eructation, it appears the headline-writer assumes it's through flatulence.
- ↑ Nowak, Rachel (September 24, 2004). "Burp vaccine cuts greenhouse gas". New Scientist. Check date values in:
|date=(help) - ↑ "Bovine belching called udderly serious gas problem - Global warming concerns spur effort to cut methane." By Gary Polakovic. Los Angles Times, Sunday, July 13, 2003.