someone, anyone... please tell me that this is a joke... satire... the Onion strikes again, or a bad dream? just don't tell me that this is real:
"A White House climate initiative has boosted a quixotic search for the “cow of the future”, a next-generation creature whose greenhouse gas emissions would be cut by anti-methane pills, burp scanners and gas backpacks.
Carbon dioxide from fossil fuels is the primary man-made gas warming the planet, but methane is far more potent and the US’s biggest source of it is its 88m cattle, which produce more than landfill sites, natural gas leaks or hydraulic fracturing."
the rest:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/70637ed6-bece-11e3-a1bf-00144feabdc0.html