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How a ‘cow fart’ vaccine could help tackle climate change | CNN

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The Pirbright Institute in the UK is leading a three-year study to develop a cow fart vaccine.

The study is supported by $9.4 million from the Bezos Earth Fund , the Amazon founder’s philanthropic entity to fight climate change.

The goal of the study is to create a “proof of concept” that can then be used to develop an actual drug.

Evidence suggests that feeding red seaweed to cattle could cut methane dramatically.

But there are concerns about the active ingredient, bromoform, which is classified as a “probable human carcinogen” in the US . If cows eat enough of it, it can end up in milk, but studies have only detected it at levels well below those acceptable for humans.

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