do cows inhale carbondioxide and exhale oxygen?

Are you sure that you didn't read this news in a humor section? Because this statement is absolutely wrong. Cows, like all the other animals, use oxygen for processes inside their body. They exhale carbon dioxide as a result of these processes. And cow poop is quite large source of methane gas.

Animal gains energy to function through cellular respiration, also known as 'oxidative metabolism'.It is the set of the metabolic reactions and processes that take place in organisms' cells to convert biochemical energy from nutrients into adenosine triphosphate (ATP), and one of the by products from this reaction is CO2 ( carbon dioxide). A common oxidizing agent (electron acceptor) to be used in animal is molecular oxygen (O2), and cows is definitely in this group. Hope this solved the question and don't just take the politician words for it because he is not a scientist.

weren't they whinging about cows and the methane they produce??? well i'm not sure about it. that they were a cause with the ozone stuff. bit to complicated for, there's to much blaming going round on things with the environment.

totally wrong dear , maybe the person was targeting the illitrate group with this information .... cows are only giving milk product which is esential for survival especially human babies ..

Thats only for trees to do my freind. The politician is playing with some Hindu sentiments I guess. Hmmm.. on a personal note I think Cows shouldn't be slaughtered in India. Since, it is against Hinduism, we must keep our culture and values intact. Thats our individuality. Bodhi

Well my friend, let you know that the physiology of a cow's respiration system is exactly the same as a human's or any other mammal. Although cattle breath may differ somewhat from human breath. Cows also produce an antidote to global warming in the form of dimethyl sulphide but little research has been done as to how this could be increased.