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Politics : Bill Clinton Scandal - SANITY CHECK
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To: greenspirit who wrote (14739)11/13/1998 1:42:00 PM
From: Les H  Read Replies (1) of 67261
 
Flatulence and Global Warming: Why Everyone Shouldn't Give a Fart

|> SYDNEY, Australia (Reuter) - Australian scientists are
|> testing an anti-flatulence compound for livestock that could
|> take the wind out of a proposed greenhouse gas emission tax.
|> Every year the nation's 24 million cattle and 150 million
|> sheep produce over two million tons of methane, a greenhouse gas
|> believed responsible for possible global warming.
|> The Australian government is considering taxing animal
|> flatulence as part of a proposal to cut greenhouse gas emissions
|> by 20 percent by 2005.
|> But scientist Chris May, from the animal health division of
|> the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization
|> (CSIRO), has found a non-toxic compound, an antimethanogen, that
suppresses methane production.
|> Not only does the compound help the atmosphere, but it also
|> benefited the animals in trials, May said in a statement
|> Tuesday.
|> ''Live weight gains in cattle on high roughage diets have
|> increased by up to 20 percent,'' May said.
|> Trials are now being carried out to see if the compound can
|> benefit sheep and the nation's wool industry.
|> Australia is among the world's five highest per-capita
|> producers of greenhouse gases, according to the first national
|> greenhouse gas inventory released in September.

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