From NOT A LOT OF PEOPLE KNOW THAT
By Paul Homewood
h/t Ian Magness
Europe’s biggest dairy company is facing a backlash after giving cows a synthetic additive to their feed in an attempt to cut their methane emissions.
Arla, which makes brands including Lurpak butter and Cravendale milk, said it was working with Morrisons, Tesco and Aldi to trial giving cows the additive Bovaer.
Thirty of Arla’s 9,000 farmers will test how the additives can be introduced into normal feeding routines, with the aim of then rolling Bovaer out more broadly.
Arla said Bovaer had been found to reduce methane emissions from cows by around 27pc.
Morrisons, Tesco and Aldi said it was a “great way of testing out where we can drive change at scale to bring down emissions”.
However, the announcement sparked a backlash on social media, with some shoppers raising concerns about the use of additives in their groceries.
Some went as far as to say they would no longer shop at supermarkets involved in the trial, while others urged the grocers to label any products which may have come from the farms using the additive.
There is no suggestion that the additive is not safe for consumers, with the UK’s Food Standard Agency having approved it for use.
The regulator also said that Bovaer poses “an acceptable” risk to the environment.
According to the Standard, the additive is not exactly harmless:
Surely the safety of humans should be the number one consideration, not methane reduction?
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Stupid is, as stupid does… “Forest Gump, 1998”
Europeans and Americans may and do poison themselves in many ways.
Just leave the animals out if it.
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Apparently a lot of commenters here lack a sense of humor.
In the US, it is common practice to feed chicken poop to cows. It is called “broiler litter.” Look it up.
Cattle are generally slaughtered at 18-24 months. They will only consume this Stuff for 2 years before they become Beef. Humans however, will consume their Beef for Decades. Cattle face short term effects. Humans face potential long term effects from decades of consumption.
Cows on the other hand will consume this Stuff for up to 5 years prior to slaughter so will ingest more Stuff before becoming Beef.
I see that the European food safety authority has some very weasel words supporting this ‘additive’.
Abstract
Following a request from the European Commission, EFSA was asked to deliver a scientific opinion on the safety and efficacy of Bovaer® 10 as a zootechnical additive for ruminants for milk production and reproduction. Systemic exposure or site of contact toxicity for the active substance 3‐nitrooxypropanol (3‐NOP), for which genotoxicity has not been fully clarified, in the target species, is unlikely based on ADME data available. Consequently, the FEEDAP Panel concluded that Bovaer® 10 was safe for dairy cows at the maximum recommended level. However, as a margin of safety could not be established, the FEEDAP Panel could not conclude on the safety of the additive for other animal species/categories. The FEEDAP Panel considered that the consumer was exposed to 3‐nitrooxypropionic acid (NOPA), which is one of the 3‐NOP metabolites. NOPA was not genotoxic based on the studies provided. The FEEDAP Panel concluded that the use of Bovaer® 10 in animal nutrition under the conditions of use proposed was of no concern for consumer safety and for the environment. The FEEDAP Panel concluded that the active substance 3‐NOP may be harmful if inhaled. It is irritant (but not corrosive) to skin, irritant to the eyes but it is not a skin sensitiser. As the genotoxicity of 3‐NOP is not completely elucidated, the exposure through inhalation of the additive may represent an additional risk for the user. The Panel concluded that the additive has a potential to be efficacious in dairy cows to reduce enteric methane production under the proposed conditions of use. This conclusion was extrapolated to all other ruminants for milk production and reproduction.
© European Food Safety Authority
https://www.efsa.europa.eu/en/efsajournal/pub/6905
omitting entirely the detail that COWS faces eyes and noses are right over n in in as they eat, pulletized or powdered form cows also inhale as they eat
wha?
“a scientific opinion”?
Arla, another company to add to the Do Not Buy list, the list is getting very long.
Methane contains a lot of energy
but from https://www.nzagrc.org.nz/assets/NZAGRCUpdate-on-the-methane-inhibitor-Bovaer-3-NOP_NWalker_V2.pdf
looks pretty vague like it might be a placeholder statement if methane is not being produced would not the animal grow faster
CO2 + 3 H2 goes to CH4 + H2O would be endothermic by my reckoning (sorry not in the mood to do the math)
You lost an O atom from CO2.
The Sabatier reaction for CO2 methanation is widely used, requiring a catalyst and high temps because of the issues you surmised.
CO2 + 4H2 → CH4 + 2H2O
Fermentation is the process of breaking down the grass into a form that the animal is able to digest.
No more fermentation means that the grass is less digestible. The result is less nutrients for the cow.
Once again, how much global warming is methane on track to produce? The so-called main stream/legacy media never asks and climate science never says how much that is.
Methane is in the air at about 1800 ppb and is increasing about 7 ppb annually, so by 2100 it will be about 2300 ppb or 2.3 ppm. If anyone thinks that will cause more than a tenth of a degree of warming, they should pipe up with a link and show their work.
The Global Warming Potential numbers published in the IPCC reports are the result of a mathematical formula designed to produce a very large GWP number for any gas with a very small concentration in the atmosphere.
Doubling of methane (ca. 200 years) is 0.2°C up. Doubling of CO2 is 0.8°C up (also ca. 200 years) climate sensitivity of methane is ca. 25% of that of CO2 (7/30).
Links to those two numbers would be great (-:
7/30, van Weijngaarden & Happer: text under figures 10 and 12 https://co2coalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Infrared-Forcing-by-Greenhouse-Gases-2019-Revised-3-7-2022.pdf
Thanks
How much of that increase is attributable to farm animals? If it’s a whopping 10% then this additive would abate annual emissions by .7pbm x .27 = .189pbm. Worth the risk?
And how much methane would pasture land release in the absence of dairy farms? (why aren’t they called dairy ranches?) Many people point out over and over that cattle graze land which is unsuitable for farming. Nature would fill that land with other grazers if dairy farms didn’t exist — how much methane did all those buffalo release? What is the difference in methane output? If there were no grazers at all, would dead grass rot and release methane?
That too.
Excellent point, thanks for posting.
It’s really about harvesting the taxpayer more so than farms or cows.
Look… squirrel.
of course as with GMO foods plus all the other crap added to cows feed like caustic soda(breaks down the hard waste they use that cows wouldnt eat normally)…the poor cows cant say how they feel or if they have ulcers etc..the eli lilly hormones for extra milk gave them crippling joint injuries and mastitis in greater incidence but gee someone made more money so who cared?
and the recent Birdflu in USA herds?
yeah well USDA allows use of shedlitter from chookfarms to be used as FEED so golly any wonder, sick birds crap n feathers fed to cows SPREAD it all over????
Arla also market Cravendale, so that’s another product off my list.
Not sure if it will make any difference to these idiots, but I have just sent Arla an email explaining a few simple facts about methane with links to evidence and a diagram showing the IR response of all GHG’s. I will post their response here if they give one.
One local Dairy farm that has an onsite Vending machine that dispenses fresh milk has already added ‘Bovaer Free’ to the shed sign 😉 . All the local dairy farms are 100% grass fed so not sure if they could ever add Bovaer to the grass as it grows.
We are going to need some intrepid alarmists to take their reatas and tablespoons in hand, and start dosing the millions of wild buffaloes, antelope, elk, and deer across the globe that are now in charge of global Wurming! Hey, Li’l Nickie, FungalNail, and friends! All y’all got any cowboy skills!?
I myself will be doing my part to stem this novel tide of ruminant belches by following a mostly vegan diet. Most of my diet will be four-legged vegans; the delicious kind! After I finish up the turkey!
“Cows eat grass and burp methane, but if they don’t eat the grass, it dies and rots and emits methane. If they do eat the grass, then new grass grows and absorbs CO2. It’s a natural cycle and isn’t adding new methane to the atmosphere.”
SOURCE:
A cow
My thoughts as well. Are there publication that do a mass balance around cows, methane producing bacteria in soil? Without analysis is it would seem to me that since cows contain the methanogens from soil then the soil must produce methane as well. What is the difference?
I believe it’s all just silly and loose no sleep over cow farts.
There are many other things that will kill us first including allowed poison food additives and bad pharma products that we are told are “safe and effective.”
But, everything humans are involved in is baaaad.
The nerds (scientists) are going to kill everyone.
In this case, at least they didn’t go all the way to 1,2,3-trinitroxyoxypropane, aka nitroglycerin.
Careful, Scissor! Don’t giv’em any ideas! They might start requiring it in OUR feed as an angina preventative! I’m all in favor of alarmists and libtards doing so voluntarily, though; especially when they use the 2 or 3 oz. suppositories!
Would they still be able to label the milk as “organic”?
PS Why not just feed the cows “Beano”?
Did you ever hear a cow complain of indigestion? I think they really just want some entertainment, like the opportunity to watch a moovie.
Meadow Star Dairy in west central MN is a state of the art facility.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nOGUlJJq1wM
The manure is pushed into a pit and the methane is what fuels the entire operation.
After the methane is taken off the waste is moved into neighbor crop land. The entire
80 acre facility is on a large slab. The main barn is 20 acres in size.
net zero is an idiotic idea that is NOT obtainable. Screwing with the food supply is another way to kill us off. No more, no less.
Blinders on regulation should get automatic approvals from EPA, USDA, FDA, and EU equivalents.
There is no objective reason to care about animal sourced methane emissions which have been around as long as life on Earth. No one has produced solid evidence these emissions do anything other than embarrassing the most flatulent of guests at social gatherings. That said, if there remain enviro-hobbyists bent on lowering these emissions, the surest way forward is to put corks in the mouths and backsides of left leaning politicos who spew far more noxious emissions than all other land creatures combined.
Well that is an additive I can be against.
Did they not learn from this additive?
Mad Cow Disease
BSE is an infectious disease believed to be due to a misfolded protein, known as a prion.[3][6] Cattle are believed to have been infected from being fed meat and bone meal that contained the remains of other cattle who spontaneously developed the disease or scrapie-infected sheep products.[3] The outbreak increased throughout the United Kingdom due to the practice of feeding meat-and-bone meal to young calves of dairy cows.
No need for this in the UK. See
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2024/11/30/time-for-starmer-to-be-honest-about-what-net-zero-means-rationing-blackouts-and-travel-restrictions-in-the-next-five-years/
“After 2030, consider that all beef, lamb and dairy will be banned and “replaced by new diets”
Bovaer, what could go wrong?
See: mRNA “vaccine”. Better living through chemistry.
humans think they control all things. its just suicide and murder they control.
Health ‘authorities’ have a long history of poor decisions.
I was shocked to find out that this is being used by Emmi, the biggest dairy producer in Switzerland,
for years already. This is also being used in Germany and Austria. There is absolutely no information about it in the official media. I only found this in the following Swiss website:
https://uncutnews.ch/trotz-studienwarnungen-bovaer-im-kampf-gegen-den-klimawandel-in-deutschland-oesterreich-und-der-schweiz-im-einsatz/
Apparently a study in Japan discovered anomalies in bovine reproductive organs. There’s no long term studies whether this will effect reproduction of livestock… Does the additive end up in milk or meat ? What are long-term exposition effects ? I suppose they haven’t informed the public because the lower methane emissions would take the wind out of the sails of their other agricultural policies. In contrary to what Germany is doing concerning the Covid-19 scandal with the publication of the “RKI Files”, nothing has been done in Switzerland. The only contract of the Swiss Government with GAVI that was published was heavily redacted. Apparently, the Swiss population is also being secretly used as guinea pigs without their consent or even informing them. People who think of Switzerland as a model for Democracy should really think twice.