COW POLLUTION
August 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIENAMED America's fruit basket, the San Joaquin Valley in California ranks among the top three regions of the US with the dirtiest air, alongside traffic-clogged Los Angeles and Houston. Among lush green meadows, with fruits crops dancing in the breeze, is an environmental disaster caused by 2.5 million cows, said a recent report, by the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District. It blames dairy industry cow flatulence and manure gas for causing excessively high amounts of volatile organic compounds (VOC's) and has called on dairy farmers to ...
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