When cows and sheep pass gas, it's a danger to us all. Not just because it smells like a foul cocktail of stale death, rotting vegetation and animal crap -- but also because it contributes to global warming. I'm totally serious. Cow and sheep farts account for 14 percent of carbon emissions in Australia, and a whopping 50 percent in more agricultural countries like New Zealand.
Kangaroo farts, on the other hand, aren't a problem -- as their stomachs contain a special kind of bacteria that keeps their flatulence methane-free (the methane in cow and sheep farts is what makes them so hazardous to the environment). Subsequently, in an effort to reduce their country's overall greenhouse gas emissions, Australian scientists are trying to insert this bacteria into the stomachs of cows and sheep.
Of course, Australians could just start eating more kangaroos and breeding fewer cattle -- but then what would these clever scientists have to spend their time on?
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