Green Options » omega http://greenoptions.com/tag/omega Posts tagged 'omega' Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:44:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Fish Oil Diet Could Curb Greenhouse Gases From Cow Farts http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/30/fish-oil-diet-could-curb-greenhouse-gases-from-cow-farts/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/30/fish-oil-diet-could-curb-greenhouse-gases-from-cow-farts/#comments Mon, 30 Mar 2009 13:44:16 +0000 Andrew Williams http://cleantechnica.com/2009/03/30/fish-oil-diet-could-curb-greenhouse-gases-from-cow-farts/

Irish scientists have discovered that adding just a small amount of fish oil to the diet of cattle can vastly reduce the amount of methane produced by, ahem…cow farts.

Climate scientists have long known that, pound for pound, methane is 20 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at trapping the suns rays, making it a highly potent greenhouse gas. An incredible 900 billion tonnes of the noxious fumes are produced each year by methanogen bacteria that live in the digestive systems of ruminants such as cattle, sheep and goats.

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I don’t know about you, but I constantly picture radiation penetrating my brain when I’m talking on my cell phone. Omega Pharma, a Belgian company specializing in health products, claims it has created a device that can calm my fears— a chip that counteracts mobile phone radiation.

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