How burping sheep are destroying the planet

Sheep in New Zealand are burping so much that they are damaging the environment. A 2001 BBC article reports that these wooly creatures' burps are actually producing more than half of the country's greenhouse gas.

They say the animals fill up with gas when they eat grass and this can only be released by burping. When they burp they produce methane which adds to global warming. New Zealand scientists have fitted some sheep with special machines to measure exactly how much gas is produced when they burp. They hope this will help them to invent food that will stop the animals producing so much gas.

Mother nature has been feeding grass to sheep for tens of thousands of years and the Earth has managed to survive. Leave it to man to try to fix something which is not broken.