Climate change culprits?

• Position: ENVIRONMENT - Feeding corn or soy to cows adds to methane output - Brief article

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Every year, the average cow belches 200 to 400 pounds of methane, a heat-trapping gas that's been linked to global warming. But changing the bovine diet might help. Since January, cows at 15 farms in Vermont have had their feed adjusted to include more plants like alfalfa and flaxseed. Unlike the corn or soy that cows are usually fed today, these foods mimic the grasses that cows evolved to eat, and the methane output of one herd has already dropped 18 percent. Methane is the...