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It isn't parody, but it is misleading. Roos have a different sort of digestive system than ruminants (sheep, goats, cattle etc.), one which is less efficient. They don't digest much cellulose.
The methane produced by ruminant digestion, and emitted as belches not farts, comes from digesting cellulose. The bacteria that do the work produce it.
In principle it is possible to select more efficient bacteria that emit less methane and inoculate ruminant digestive systems. Thick of it as something like humans eating yogurt to replenish their intestinal flora. But finding bacteria that are efficient in cellulose digestion and which don't produce as much methane may be very difficult. It's easy to say, but contradictory when you look closely.
Still, the research may have value if it just finds the bacteria that are best at cellulose dogestion, whether they produce methane or not, since this could reduce the amount of forage ruminants need.
Other researchers have the same objective but look to existing ruminant bacteria, seeking those who are better. They might even start with those champions and breed super versions in the lab for reintroduction to rumens. And it is OZ and NZ that are the logical developers of such advances since they are grazing countries. The EU and US have gone further down the grain feeding road where cellulose digestion isn't as important. Rather than getting better at cellulose digestion they change the feed to have less cellulose. This is foolish in the same way that making ethanol from starchy maize grain is inherently less efficient that making it from cellulosic leaves and stems.
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