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Cow farts are bad for Earth, but cow burps are worse. New plan could help cows belch less.

                             Cow Farts Bad                                      Grasshopper Farts Good

USA Today–Belching – not flatulence – is the major cause of methane produced by the world’s cows and a Seattle-based company has just won $1.5 million to test a product to make cows burp less.

Both ends of a cow produce methane, but 97% of all the methane gas from a cow is released by belching rather than farting, according to the U.S. Dairy Council and the National Aeronautic and Space Administration.

Methane accounts for about 20 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection agency. And it’s more than 25 times more potent than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Proposes Adopting UN Cow Fart Unit-CFU Standards

The Hill reports, “Ocasio-Cortez explains ‘farting cows’ comment: ‘We’ve got to address factory farming’.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) sought to explain a recent document from her office that linked “farting cows” to climate change, saying that serious climate policy needs to address agriculture.

A set of frequently asked questions released by her office this month as part of the rollout of her “Green New Deal” proposal to fight climate change mentioned cow flatulence as a problem, but her staff later denounced the document.

Ocasio-Cortez didn’t directly defend the statement in an interview that aired late Thursday on Showtime’s “Desus & Mero,” but said that climate policy might need to look into reducing greenhouse gas emissions from agriculture.

AOC’s Climate Solution: Fix Cow Farts