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Cool cows: The cattle challenging climate change

Cool cows: The cattle challenging climate change

This Is Why · Sky News

October 23, 202511m 58s

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Show Notes

Whether they are providing the beef for your roast dinner or the milk for your cup of tea – cows are undeniably useful animals.

The problem is they also enjoy burping and breaking wind and it's having a huge impact on global warming.

The steaks couldn’t be higher and that’s why an agricultural college in Scotland has developed the Cool Cows programme to breed the animals in a way that means they expel less gas.

Niall is joined by our udderly brilliant science correspondent, Thomas Moore.

Producers: Natalie Ktena & Tom Gillespie
Editor: Mike Bovill