[Terrapreta] Cows/animals - farts/burping-charcoal and/or parsley?

[Michael Bailes]

I am reading a detective story at the moment by Gerald Hammond "Dead
Letters".
One character is a dog who farts.
The owner feeds her charcoal and parsley to stop the farting.

I note that charcoal is added to a lot of animal food products.
For example :-
I talked to a Chinese charcoal dealer and he said he was selling a lot to
Asian Chicken farms. He was a bit unclear about why but he said it made the
chickens "better"?

Would charcoal have any effects on cow farting or belching do you think?
It is NZ's major source of greenhouse gas (30-40%)(methane?).and about 20%
in many other countries.

-- 
Michael the Archangel

"You can fix all the world's problems in a garden. . . .
Most people don't know that"
FROM
http://www.blog.thesietch.org/wp-content/permaculture.swf
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