Can our New Zealand scientists breed cows that produce less methane emissions?

This news article on The Project last night can be used as a "spark" to start student conversation about solutions to real world problems.

After watching the video as a class, think about and discuss the ideas:

• What's the problem here that scientists are trying to solve?
• Why is this an important problem to solve?
• What's the solution that they're exploring?
• How would this solution play a role in fixing the problem?
• What are some other ways of solving this problem?
• What do you think about the ideas from the video clip?
• What do the ideas from the video clip make you wonder?
• Who can we talk to in order to learn more about this? Or how can we find out the answers to our wonderings?

Here's some more information:

Lower methane cows from a catalogue.

Pilot trial to identify possibility of breeding lower-methane emitting cows gets underway.