UK Government ‘Commits’ to Forcing Cattle to Consume Anti-Flatulence Feed Additive
Meanwhile, more than 2.8 million people have signed an online petition calling for another UK general election.
The last time I reported on Bovaer, the anti-methane additive now being used in cattle feed, citizens in the United Kingdom were staging a boycott.
People now recognize that carbon dioxide (CO2) is a life-essential gas and methane is a critical part of the finely tuned biogenic carbon cycle. Consumers are also alarmed by the introduction of a supplement to animals, with no consideration given to the long-term effects of humans consuming meat and dairy products from animals that eat the additives.
Now the UK government is pushing a mandate that is all ‘suitable’ British cattle will be given methane-reducing chemical Bovaer or Bovaer-like products by law by 2030.
A Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) document that details the plan to mandate the use of ‘methane-suppressing feed products’ in English cattle has sparked concern on social media — due to claims the substance can leach into dairy, causing health problems.
It comes after furious Brits have vowed to boycott more than a dozen makers of dairy products including Lurpak, over fears they are allegedly ‘contaminated’ with the additive, which has been questionably linked to cancer.
However, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) on its website says: The FSA safety assessment concluded there are no safety concerns when Bovaer is used at the correct dosage. It does not cause cancer (it is not carcinogenic or genotoxic and poses no safety concerns to consumers, animals or the environment.
Shoppers originally focused on milks and butters made by Danish firm Arla after the company announced the launch of a trial that would see Bovaer given to its cows.
The mandate comes after the British dairy farmers attempted to meet consumer demands for their products to be Bovaer-free. In the post-COVID world, people are hesitant to automatically take the word of “experts” on subjects related to their health and diet.
And it turns out the climate-change argument is not packing the punch that it once did.
At the other end of the argument, Rupert Lowe says that the Government must recognise that the public are not going to accept climate change as an excuse for ‘tampering with healthy food’.
The MP for Great Yarmouth adds: ‘Ruminants have been developing for tens of thousands of years. So you cannot just start messing around with them using an unproven substance.’
The debate over methane suppressants is not going to go away. For now, though, it is hard to see any other British milk producer wanting to sprinkle a single spoonful of Bovaer in the trough.
One of King Charles III’s farming advisers has accused Arla Foods (one of the producers who is testing Bovaer) of ‘re-engineering the cow’ with its trial.
Patrick Holden criticised Arla, which owns the UK’s biggest dairy co-operative, over its controversial pilot of using the feed additive Bovaer across 30 British farms.
Organic farming pioneer Mr Holden – who advised Charles on setting up an organic holding at Highgrove, which became the Duchy Originals brand – said Arla had ‘resorted to feed additives to maintain positive PR for their dairy-farming industry’.
…’The cause in this case is separating the dairy cow from her natural environment of which she is intrinsically a part.
‘Once this separation has occurred, both physically and in the mindset of society, methane becomes a problem which needs to be addressed by re-engineering the cow.’
As a reminder, Bovaer and other anti-flatulence additives being use on cattle are not only adding to the cost of meat and dairy products, but are also irrelevant to “global warming”. It’s being used in 55 countries around the world, including the US.
Methane is irrelevant pic.twitter.com/7JTBttMLic
— Wojtus 🇵🇱🇨🇦 (@OldGuyHuh) December 7, 2024
It’s it any wonder that the UK petition to support a new general election has now hit 2.8 millions signatures.
More than 2.8 million people have signed an online petition calling for another general election, with Parliament now scheduled to debate it on January 6.
The petition has been fuelled by support from Elon Musk, who tweeted “wow” in response to the petition breaking the 200k target in six hours.
According to the BBC, the petition is the third most popular e-petition since 2010.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) November 24, 2024
With the UK government being so tone-deaf, it’s a wonder it will last that long.
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Pass the joint between millions of filthy hippies in drum circles but don’t pass gas.
Okey-dokey!
3-Nitrooxypropanol (the synthetic organic compound known as “bovaer,” which sounds soooo much more friendly and natural) was developed in 2010, but the “experts” are confident there are no long-term side effects.
Ooookay….
Tired of being used as a guinea pig yet?
For fun, go to its Wikipedia page and have a gander at all the hazard & precautionary statements associated with it.
H361 is a doozey. Is this a plan to literally destroy the herds by making them sterile or giving their offspring birth defects?
“The FSA safety assessment concluded there are no safety concerns when Bovaer is used at the correct dosage. It does not cause cancer (it is not carcinogenic or genotoxic and poses no safety concerns to consumers, animals or the environment.”
May: The vax gives you 95% protection.
Jun: 70% protection.
Jul: 50% protection.
Aug: No protection, but reduces the spread.
Sep: Doesn’t reduce the spread, reduces severity.
Oct: Doesn’t reduce severity, reduces hospitalizations.
Nov: Doesn’t reduce hospitalizations, but you won’t die.
Dec: You die, but you will go to heaven.
–TaxpayerFundedCrackpipes.co
Bet whoever owns the rights to Bovaer is politically connected. Sometimes it seems like government is nothing more than a way of stealing money from the many and directing it to the connected few.
Warmists need toe be flogged out of office and into the wilderness to live up to their principles.
When they come crawling back, begging to be admitted into civilization again, they can be allowed with with a permanant vow of silence.
Warmists is a great term. I am going to steal that.
I used that term as early as July 2015. Not even sure that I didn’t take is from somewhere else, but it may have been original.
This is an important step forward for humanity. The next would be to force feed the cattle with salt and pepper just before slaughter. And then instead of slicing their throat they should be roasted to death (medium rare) thus being table ready to serve.
Fan of blood pudding, are ye?
Make Brazen Bulls Great Again
and just what are you going to do with all those “gas-passing” British beer drinkers
The climate grifters are determined to make every possible nightmare sci-fi plot a reality. As long as they’re exempt. One consolation is that that’s never the way it works out, in the movies at least.
Don’t forget to purchase your Soylent Green. It’s good for you!
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Brits are approaching the point where London is their enemy and it is time to organize and march. Damascus fell, so can Londonistan..
It would be interesting to find one farmer who doesn’t feed it to his cows. Oh sure, he buys it but then doesn’t actually put it in the feed. Then, after a suitable time period, he can compare his milk/meat to all the rest….
Very subversive. I like it.
Where does the carbon in the CH4 come from? The grass/ feed for the cows. Where does the carbon in the grass/feed come from? The atmosphere! Cows are carbon neutral. The cows have “purchased “ a carbon offset by eating what has been pulled from the atmosphere.
There are 9 million cows in Great Britain and 300 million in India. So whatever happened to Bill Gates’ proposal to use India as a laboratory to try things? Oh! That only applies to people! He was talking about using people as guinea pigs, not animals. Well, test it on Rishi Sunak then.
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.218.4572.563#:~:text=Termites%20may%20emit%20large%20quantities,16%20grams%20of%20carbon%20dioxide.
Very interesting article. Thanks.
That chemical will end up killing us all in a mass fartricide.
I’m skeptical that cattle gas is melting the polar caps. But in any case, researchers at UC Davis claim they can reduce cattle fahrts by over 50% by blending in seaweed pellets into cattle feed. Seaweed harvesting would raise the cost of the end product no doubt.
Polar caps are melted by polar bear farts, obviously.
As anyone who has driven through Anthony, TX can attest, what cattle farts melt is your dental caps.
Fun fact. New Zealand has larger sheep population than people. Some people say they should give sheep the right to vote. Other people say they already have.
A testament to completely inept and ineffective government.
A classic example of the old managerial axiom, “When you can’t manage the big, you manage the small”.
This is farcical. The British government has gone off the deep end.
“Green”/environmental zealots and fanatics are as much a threat to western, secular democracies as Islamofascists/Muslim supremacists/terrorists are.
Environmentalists are nothing more than communists hiding in places where communists aren’t socially acceptable. Their entire goal in life is to take full operational control over property owned by other people.
From what I have read farmers who sell organic dairy products would no longer be permitted to label their product as such should they be made to add Bovaer or similar products to cattle feed. Not sure how that will be handled.
“Organic*”
I support the UK government’s commitment to ending excessive flatulence. But why limit it to cows? Humans should be flatulence tested semi-annually with strict dietary requirements for those who fail the test