{"id":356,"date":"2019-08-24T08:40:20","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T13:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/?p=356"},"modified":"2019-08-24T08:40:20","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T13:40:20","slug":"adding-pink-seaweed-to-cow-feed-eliminates-their-methane-emissions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/08\/24\/adding-pink-seaweed-to-cow-feed-eliminates-their-methane-emissions\/","title":{"rendered":"Adding pink seaweed to cow feed eliminates their methane emissions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-24-at-9.37.49-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-357\" src=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-24-at-9.37.49-AM-1024x586.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"829\" height=\"474\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-24-at-9.37.49-AM-1024x586.png 1024w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-24-at-9.37.49-AM-300x172.png 300w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-24-at-9.37.49-AM-768x440.png 768w, https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/153\/2019\/08\/Screen-Shot-2019-08-24-at-9.37.49-AM.png 1670w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 829px) 100vw, 829px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One of the major contributors to greenhouse gases is the methane that cows belch up as they break down cellulose, but five years ago, <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0085289\">research from Australia&#8217;s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation<\/a>(CSIRO) found that adding small amounts of a pink seaweed called <em>Asparagopsis<\/em> to cows&#8217; diets eliminated the gut microbes responsible for methane production and &#8220;completely knocks out&#8221; cows&#8217; methane emissions.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/boingboing.net\/2019\/08\/20\/gassy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>A<\/strong>dding pink seaweed to cow feed eliminates their methane emissions<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the major contributors to greenhouse gases is the methane that cows belch up as they break down cellulose, but five years ago, research from Australia&#8217;s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation(CSIRO) found that adding small amounts of a <span class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/2019\/08\/24\/adding-pink-seaweed-to-cow-feed-eliminates-their-methane-emissions\/\">Continue Reading<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":138,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-356","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/138"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356\/revisions\/358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.owu.edu\/envs110-198-498\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}