{"id":27354,"date":"2021-10-22T18:36:26","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T17:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27354"},"modified":"2021-10-22T18:36:27","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T17:36:27","slug":"word-of-the-day-ruminant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=27354","title":{"rendered":"Word of the day: ruminant"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;d never come across this word until recently when I was reading an article about the climate crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"> I checked it out and found that a ruminant is an even-toed ungulate mammal that chews the cud regurgitated from its rumen. The ruminants comprise the cattle, sheep, antelopes, deer, giraffes, and their relatives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ruminants produce a\u00a0huge quantity of the greenhouse gases\u00a0which significantly contributes to global warming namely, carbon dioxide (CO<sub>2<\/sub>), methane (CH<sub>4<\/sub>) and nitrous oxide (N<sub>2<\/sub>O). On an average, a cow produces around 70\u2013120 kg CH<sub>4<\/sub>\u00a0per year which is 23 times more potent factor to climate change than that of CO<sub>2<\/sub>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So, if you&#8217;re a meat-eater and want to protect the environment, think of eating less beef and lamb as compared with pork and chicken. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;d never come across this word until recently when I was reading an article about the climate crisis. I checked it out and found that a ruminant is an even-toed ungulate mammal that chews the cud regurgitated from its rumen. The ruminants comprise the cattle, sheep, antelopes, deer, giraffes, and their relatives. Ruminants produce a\u00a0huge [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultural-issues","category-environment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=27354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27356,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27354\/revisions\/27356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}