According to the BBC, scientists in Scotland are testing an additive to cattle feed that they hope will stop cattle burping so much. Your average cud-chewing cow produces a staggering 500 liters of methane each day, although the scientists aren't saying how much of that gas comes from the mouth and how much comes from, er, the other end of the digestive process. (Wouldn't you love to be the lucky scientist who gets to measure that?)

This news, of course, has environmentalists happy, since methane warms the atmosphere more intensively than carbon dioxide. Cattle farmers in Aberdeen, home of the trials and the Aberdeen Angus cow, are also pleased since apparently this feed also allows the cows to put on more weight more quickly. Of course, sadly but typically, this techno-loony bullcrap "solution" to the "problem" of cow expectoration completely bypasses the simpler, cheaper, and vastly more effective answer to global warming of not having so many cows in the first place. What a crazy idea that is!