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To: HPilot who wrote (253370)	6/6/2008 1:30:55 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 793895

Isn't the methane from microbes competing with the cow for the food? I thought that if the food was more accessible to the cow's gut by being predigested in a factory, then the microbes would miss out. Rather than speculate, I should probably just read about how cow stomachs digest food. But really, I don't care. Cows have been around a long time and I don't believe their methane production is a problem. Cows weren't in NZ 200 years ago, but insects were and microbes and they ate the plants, festered in swamps, made coal and methane. We are farting against thunder. The methane is obviously reabsorbed somehow, or burned in the atmosphere by high energy radiation, otherwise there would be a LOT of it. Mqurice