Weird But Possibly True: Garlic Nixes Farm Animals’ Methane Gas
Who knew? Besides the vegan-eatin’ PETA folks that is.
Belching farm animals account for 16% of our planet’s methane, a gas even more responsible for global warming than carbon dioxide. As Popular Science reports in October, a new study has found that lacing the diets of cows with garlic can decrease their, uh, emissions, by up to 50%.
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Time to try this out on family and friends, too!
The question is … will the eventual meat be pre-infused with the fragrance and flavor of garlic?
