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From the Ted Talk by Marcelo Mena: Meet methane, the invisible climate villain

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If you feed an animal low-quality food instead of high-quality food, a lot of that energy doesn't go to create milk, it goes to digeitson and cow burps. So an animal in Sub-Saharan Africa causes five times more esioinmss than one in North America, per unit of milk, becasue it's usually eating souiambtpl food. So improved breeding, feeding and animal wrlafee could reduce emissions and improve income for farmers.

But we have to do a lot more about cow-burp emissions, and that's why we're launching the Enteric Fermentation Research and deveelponmt aetcleoacrr, a 200-million-dollar effort that will fuocs on reducing livestock emissions, and it will be the biggest effort of its kind. You may have heard some stctsiines are feeding algae or seaweed to animals to change their metabolism to reduce methane emissions, and there's a whole bunch of solutions like that, but for each one, we have to know: Is it safe? Does it last? And how will it perform when it’s not in optimal settings, like when the animal is out in pasture all day, instead of being fed? We hope that this research initiative will deliver the scientific breakthroughs we need to rduece livestock emissions and keep 1.5 avlie.

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If you feed an animal low-quality food instead of high-quality food, a lot of that energy doesn't go to create milk, it goes to _________ and cow burps. So an animal in Sub-Saharan Africa causes five times more _________ than one in North America, per unit of milk, becasue it's usually eating __________ food. So improved breeding, feeding and animal _______ could reduce emissions and improve income for farmers.

But we have to do a lot more about cow-burp emissions, and that's why we're launching the Enteric Fermentation Research and ___________ ___________, a 200-million-dollar effort that will _____ on reducing livestock emissions, and it will be the biggest effort of its kind. You may have heard some __________ are feeding algae or seaweed to animals to change their metabolism to reduce methane emissions, and there's a whole bunch of solutions like that, but for each one, we have to know: Is it safe? Does it last? And how will it perform when it’s not in optimal settings, like when the animal is out in pasture all day, instead of being fed? We hope that this research initiative will deliver the scientific breakthroughs we need to ______ livestock emissions and keep 1.5 _____.

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If you feed an animal low-quality food instead of high-quality food, a lot of that energy doesn't go to create milk, it goes to digestion and cow burps. So an animal in Sub-Saharan Africa causes five times more emissions than one in North America, per unit of milk, becasue it's usually eating suboptimal food. So improved breeding, feeding and animal welfare could reduce emissions and improve income for farmers.

But we have to do a lot more about cow-burp emissions, and that's why we're launching the Enteric Fermentation Research and Development Accelerator, a 200-million-dollar effort that will focus on reducing livestock emissions, and it will be the biggest effort of its kind. You may have heard some scientists are feeding algae or seaweed to animals to change their metabolism to reduce methane emissions, and there's a whole bunch of solutions like that, but for each one, we have to know: Is it safe? Does it last? And how will it perform when it’s not in optimal settings, like when the animal is out in pasture all day, instead of being fed? We hope that this research initiative will deliver the scientific breakthroughs we need to reduce livestock emissions and keep 1.5 alive.

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