{"id":11684,"date":"2019-12-01T09:11:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-01T00:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/01\/new-zealand-begins-genetic-program-to-produce-low-methane-emitting-sheep"},"modified":"2019-12-01T09:11:37","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T00:11:37","slug":"new-zealand-begins-genetic-program-to-produce-low-methane-emitting-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=11684","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand begins genetic program to produce low methane-emitting sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Global first\u2019 project will help tackle climate change by lowering agricultural greenhouse gases<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand livestock industry has begun a \u201cglobal first\u201d genetic program that would help to tackle climate change by breeding low methane-emitting sheep.<\/p>\n<p>There are about <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.stats.govt.nz\/browse_for_stats\/population\/mythbusters\/3million-people-60million-sheep.aspx\">six sheep for each person in New Zealand<\/a>, and the livestock industry accounts for about one-third of the country\u2019s total greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2019\/dec\/01\/new-zealand-begins-genetic-program-to-produce-low-methane-emitting-sheep\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u2018Global first\u2019 project will help tackle climate change by lowering agricultural greenhouse gasesThe New Zealand livestock industry has begun a \u201cglobal first\u201d genetic program that would help to tackle climate change by breeding low methane-emitting shee&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":421,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[737,41,56,466],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11684","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-agriculture","category-asia-pacific","category-new-zealand","category-pollution"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/421"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11684"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11685,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11684\/revisions\/11685"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11684"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11684"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11684"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}