{"id":7454,"date":"2018-07-12T05:04:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T05:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/?p=7454"},"modified":"2018-07-12T05:04:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T05:04:09","slug":"how-eating-seaweed-can-help-cows-to-belch-less-methane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/how-eating-seaweed-can-help-cows-to-belch-less-methane.html","title":{"rendered":"How Eating Seaweed Can Help Cows to Belch Less Methane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A graduate student in animal science at the University of California, Davis, Roque is experimenting with a cow named &#8220;ginger&#8221; and monitors everything from the animals\u2019 food rations to the somatic cells in their milk \u2014 indicators of inflammation or stress.\u00a0\u00a0The research is into reducing methane emissions from livestock by supplementing their diets with a specific type of seaweed.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-5634 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/edible-seaweed-2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/edible-seaweed-2-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/edible-seaweed-2-45x45.jpg 45w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Methane is a potent greenhouse gas, with roughly 30 times more short-term, heat-trapping power than carbon dioxide. In\u00a0California alone,\u00a01.8 million dairy cows, together with a smaller number of beef cattle, emit 11.5 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent every year \u2014 as much as 2.5 million cars.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/e360.yale.edu\/features\/how-eating-seaweed-can-help-cows-to-belch-less-methane\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A graduate student in animal science at the University of California, Davis, Roque is experimenting with a cow named &#8220;ginger&#8221; and monitors everything from the animals\u2019 food rations to the somatic cells in their milk \u2014 indicators of inflammation or stress.\u00a0\u00a0The research is into reducing methane emissions from livestock by supplementing their diets with a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":5634,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,77,59],"tags":[136,620],"class_list":["post-7454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-algae-animal-feed","category-algae-methane","category-seaweed","tag-algae-research","tag-animal-feed-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7454"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7455,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7454\/revisions\/7455"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oilgae.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}