{"id":336,"date":"2009-06-05T14:22:28","date_gmt":"2009-06-05T19:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=336"},"modified":"2020-01-20T09:29:36","modified_gmt":"2020-01-20T13:29:36","slug":"does-cheese-cause-global-warming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"Does Cheese Cause Global Warming?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The methane that cows (and other ruminants) emit while they digest their food is 20 times better at trapping heat in our atmosphere than CO2 &#8212; as a result, when Stoneyfield Farms commissioned a study on their company&#8217;s carbon footprint, they were shocked to find out that milk made more of an impact on global climate change than transportation, heating, or the energy used to run their plants.<\/p>\n<p>Luckily, scientists are studying whether this must always be the case, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/06\/05\/us\/05cows.html\">have now found that feeding cows a diet of flax and alfalfa (instead of corn and soy) reduces methane production significantly<\/a> &#8212; and their coats are shiny too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The methane that cows (and other ruminants) emit while they digest their food is 20 times better at trapping heat in our atmosphere than CO2 &#8212; as a result, when Stoneyfield Farms commissioned a study on their company&#8217;s carbon footprint, they were shocked to find out that milk made more of an impact on global [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":944,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[58],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guild","tag-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/944"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainecheeseguild.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}