DesertFox
08-08-2008, 07:19 PM
Australian scientists have come up with a unique way to combat climate change: eat kangaroos and save the world.
A study claims that farming and consuming more kangaroos instead of cattle and sheep will reduce carbon gas emissions.
According to the scientific journal Conservation Letters, the Australian icon produces far less methane than sheep and cattle. Methane is one of the worst causes of greenhouse gas and in Australia alone sheep and cattle produce 11 per cent of the nation’s total emissions.
Kangaroos, on the other hand, produce relatively small amounts of the gas because they are not ruminants; as with wallabies, the microorganisms in their stomachs differ from those found in sheep and cattle.
More (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4483757.ece)
A study claims that farming and consuming more kangaroos instead of cattle and sheep will reduce carbon gas emissions.
According to the scientific journal Conservation Letters, the Australian icon produces far less methane than sheep and cattle. Methane is one of the worst causes of greenhouse gas and in Australia alone sheep and cattle produce 11 per cent of the nation’s total emissions.
Kangaroos, on the other hand, produce relatively small amounts of the gas because they are not ruminants; as with wallabies, the microorganisms in their stomachs differ from those found in sheep and cattle.
More (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4483757.ece)