Cadbury's to introduce 'fart-free' chocolate

We've all heard the sorry stats: cattle produce a lot of methane, which is 20 times worse for the environment than C02 (if you've ever got a bit too friendly with a cow, this fact probably isn't a hard one to believe). So we all need to reduce our consumption of meat and dairy to stop this noxious gas being belched and farted into the sky.

So it's good to see one heavy consumer of milk and cream taking ownership of this rather stinky problem: Cadbury's is working to reduce emissions, after the Carbon Trust revealed that the famous glass-and-a-half of milk in every bar is responsible for 60% of the chocolate's carbon emissions.

How?

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The company is doing this by educating its farmers on a rigorous gas-reducing programme for cows focusing chiefly on their diet, using techniques similar to a programme in New Zealand that has claimed a 50% success rate in reducing bovine emissions. No bad thing, when you consider that a single cow produces in a year the same amount of greenhouse gas as an average family car. I always knew that cows were evil! [Via BBC]

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