Cadbury Working to Reduce Flatulence

Cadbury, the confectioner company, in an effort to reduce their carbon emissions 50% by 2020, is working with dairy farmers to lower cow flatulence. Putting cows on a lower-fiber diet so that they "burp" less and release less methane, (a potential global-warming gas,) will help Cadbury lower the 60% of their carbon footprint resulting from milk production for their chocolate.

Some experts consider cows to be the world's biggest single source of methane. In 2005 a scientific report published in California claimed that each dairy cow in the area was producing almost 20 pounds of gas every year (They learned this by putting cows in a bio bubble that measured emissions for two days). The claim by the UN is that cows produce more greenhouse gasses than all the SUVs, airplanes, trucks and cars combined. All this methane gas is produced when the bacteria in their stomachs breaks down plant fibers, the gas then comes out one end when they chew their cud, and the other end in the form of flatulence.