• Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates has invested millions of dollars in a company that seeks to stop cows from burping in an apparent effort to save the planet.
• Gates has reportedly backed an Australian-based startup looking to stop cows from burping methane emissions. The billionaire is pouring funds into the company’s research around livestock food supplements.
• Gates’ firm, Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV), with participation from Harvest Road Group, raised $12 million for a climate technology company called Rumin8, which studies solutions to reducing livestock emissions.
• It says that its supplements will eventually be fed to livestock in a bid to fight “climate change.”

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