Did you know that cow flatulence and excretion (aka farts and poop) account for 20 percent of the world’s total annual emissions of methane? So much for fresh, country air?

Did you know that methane is second only to CO2 in contributing to greenhouse gases and is much more destructive of ozone than is CO2?

Did you know that in countries where wood is used for heat, a formula-fed baby uses 73 kilograms (about 160 pounds) of wood each year?

Did you know that 550 million cans of artificial baby milk were sold in 1997 in the US alone? And that these 550 million cans represent 86,000 tons of tin and 1,200 tons of paper labels?

Did you know that plastic feeding bottles, nipples, and pacifiers take 200 to 450 years to break down when placed in landfills?

Did you know that Indonesian mothers produce a billion liters of breastmilk annually—an equivalent amount of formula would cost $400 million?

Did you know that if you had to replace your breastmilk with breastmilk from a milk bank, it would cost you at least $30,000 for a one-year supply?

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Kudos to Peggy O’Mara and her staff.