Items Tagged with 'greenhouse gases'

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Cattle
Commentary: University of California, Davis

Gut genes may hold key to lowering methane emissions

Scientists analyze how red seaweed changes the interactions among the thousands of microbes in the cow’s gut.
Amy Quinton
November 18, 2025
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Recent research at University of California, Davis, shows that feeding cows red seaweed can dramatically cut the amount of methane that is produced and released into the environment.


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Kraig Westerbeek and Stewart Leeth of Smithfield Foods
Cover Story | Smithfield Foods

Smithfield Foods: Power players

In its quest to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2025, Smithfield Foods has made significant leaps forward, through innovative manure-to-energy technology and total supply-chain assessment and reorganization.
Andy Hanacek
February 21, 2019
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In December 2016, Smithfield Foods — the world's largest pork processor and hog producer — made known to the world its plan to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25 percent across its entire supply chain by the year 2025.
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Emission Control

Ashley B. Peterson
December 31, 2010
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The meat and poultry industry is committed to ensuring a safe food product for our customers, maintaining the highest animal-welfare standards for our livestock, providing a safe and rewarding work environment to our employees, reaching out to the communities in which we do business, and working to minimize our environmental impact.
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