(the ones that go moo)
2007-12-14 16:42:21 · 11 answers · asked by jubjub firefly 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Agriculture
ok not sure who to believe yet. troll can't be right can he?!
2007-12-14 16:52:40 · update #1
pah thatcher took away our milk -the hag!
2007-12-14 17:00:51 · update #2
more than 1.4 billions!!!!!
anyway verify
Good Luck!!!
2007-12-15 20:32:54 · answer #1 · answered by lilangel 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sunday, December 04, 2005
How To Stop Climate Change: Become a Vegetarian
Believe it or not, the title's actually half-serious.
According to today's Sunday Times, flatulent cows shoulder at least some of the blame for global warming:
There are 1.4 billion cows worldwide, each producing 500 litres of methane a day and accounting for 14% of all emissions of the gas.
Carbon dioxide is by far the biggest contributor to climate change, but methane has 23 times the warming potential of CO2 so reducing its emission is also considered important.
In Scotland, where there is a greater concentration of agriculture than in other countries, cows produce 46% of all methane emissions.
In response to this problem, scientists at the Rowett Reasearch Insititue in Aberdeen have developed a new diet which they claim reduces the amount of methane produced by cows:
They introduced a food additive, a mixture of organic sugars and a bacterium developed at the institute, into the cows’ diet. It is based on fumaric acid, a naturally occurring chemical essential to respiration of animal and vegetable tissues.
"In some experiments we got a 70% decrease in methane emissions, which is quite staggering," said John Wallace, a biochemist at the institute who is leading the research team. In total about 14% of global methane comes from the guts of farm animals. It is worth doing something about."
Now I'm sure you'll agree that's all very impressive, but wouldn't it be easier and cheaper to deal with the problem by reducing the number of cows? In case you hadn't realised, most of them are not wild animals and are breed primarily to be served up between bread rolls with a side-order of supersize fries in a McDicks somewhere. Kick the habit and do your bit for the planet.
Posted by Disillusioned kid at Sunday, December 04, 2005
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2007-12-15 06:37:15 · answer #2 · answered by Loren S 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
One Cow Rest Are Clones. Yep!
2007-12-14 17:05:37 · answer #3 · answered by soyoulikenovas 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its 50 million in world
0.5% of the human population
there are approx 7 million in th uk
7 million plus one if you count margeret thatcher.
2007-12-14 16:59:17 · answer #4 · answered by des 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
The total world cattle population is estimated to be more than 1.3 billion head.
http://www.worldalmanacforkids.com/WAKI-ViewArticle.aspx?pin=wwwwak-075&article_id=18&chapter_id=1&chapter_title=Animals&article_title=Cattle
2007-12-14 18:02:44 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
mooooooooooooooore then 100000000 and thats a lot of beef
2007-12-15 00:50:19 · answer #6 · answered by hill bill y 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
21.
They move around a lot so it appears that there are a lot more.
2007-12-14 16:51:52 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 4⤊ 0⤋
enough to put a hole in the ozone layer with their butt....
2007-12-14 19:17:51 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
There are only 1,11,30,817 cows in the world.
Go round to verify ........................
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2007-12-14 22:27:31 · answer #9 · answered by shinchan 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
over 900,000
2007-12-14 16:50:02 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋