1. Cow Flatulence
Cows do more than just chew grass and moo when they’re out in the field, they produce a LOT of gas. In the United States alone it is estimated that dairy cows produce 212 Mt of CO2e per year or 3.4% of total greenhouse gas emissions in the country.
In order to study this further, the University of New Hampshire was given a whopping $700,000 by the Department of Agriculture to investigate its methane gas emissions. And what conclusion did they come to after spending all that money? Cows emit most of their methane from burping, not farting. Well, that’s good to know.
