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Can humans breathe methane

Updated: 3/5/2024
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11y ago

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Because it's mainly due to how the feed they eat is digested. The digestive processes both from the rumen and from the cecum encourage byproduct which includes methane and carbon dioxide. Since these gases don't have anything to contribute to the health of the animal, they are expelled by belching and flatulence. And methane isn't just from cows: it also comes from humans, pigs, deer, horses, sheep, wolves, lions, etc. It also comes from deep in the earth and is expelled into the atmosphere.

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Cows are ruminant animals, that is, they have four compartments in their stomach. When they eat grass, bacteria in the first compartment, the rumen, softens it. The cow can then bring it all back up into its mouth and chew it again (chewing the cud). Because the process of food breakdown is anaerobic (without air) it produces methane, a powerful greenhouse gas. This is mostly belched, but partly farted.

Agricultural scientists are experimenting with different food additives to try to lessen the amount of methane emissions.

  • There are more than 150 different species of ruminants in all continents except Australia and Antarctica.
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12y ago

Cows don't produce methane - the bacteria in their rumens produce methane. This is through anaerobic fermentation of grains, grasses and legumes that the cows eat. The belch is simply the release of that gas, which the cow has no use for.

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13y ago

Because of their digestive processes. Fermentation in the rumen produces methane which must be released through flatulence or belching. All animals, however, also produce methane gas through flatulence or belching.

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13y ago

cows actually burp methane because they have 4 stomachs.

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7y ago

Yes - the decomposition of human waste is known to produce methane.

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14y ago

Methane is made from waste,such as:sewer gas,rotting food or animals.

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12y ago

hello sonny saunders

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11y ago

No humans cannot breathe in methane

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3w ago

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