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Lauralee's avatar

Leave the livestock as God created , this is ridiculous

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Crosscat's avatar

I see M&S are in on this too. I’ve just emailed Waitrose to ask them to specify which products they sell will contain this as I do not wish to consume any of them and told them I’ll want to post the list on social media. We need a central space to go and check which products are ok to consume and then for that to go viral!

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DayDawnBreaking's avatar

Amen! I would like this list also.

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Crosscat's avatar

https://nobovaer.com/

This is just starting up and wants people to let dairies know about it so they can register.

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The Plucky Robin's avatar

Clare at Conscientious Currency (substack) has started to compile this list

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Crosscat's avatar

https://nobovaer.com/

This just starting - tell dairies to register

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Peter Patreon's avatar

Can you let me know what they say please. I will write separately to increase the ‘against’ metrics.

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Crosscat's avatar

Still waiting!

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Iain McCausland's avatar

Buy organic.

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Birgitte Bjorholm's avatar

Absolutely horrifying! "This decision is based on the belief that Bovaer "is expected to pose low risk to humans or animals." Hmmmm - I 'm getting a "safe and effective vibe"!

Unfortunately I am living Denmark - the belly of the green agenda beast! Home of Arla! There is a clear war on beef in the media and prices have almost doubled. On top of this the government is aggressively going after farmers and planning a Co2 tax forcing farmers to use this Bovaer drug in the feed.

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DayDawnBreaking's avatar

I don’t trust anything Bill Gates has his fingers in. I highly doubt it will be healthy for cattle.

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Iain Noble's avatar

Bill Gates is investing in a different company making a different product

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Arthur Champion's avatar

There is no climate emergency which means Bovaer is not needed https://clintel.org

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Capt. Coleslaw's avatar

Informed consent? Do these moo moo's have any say in the matter? These cattle have an incredible and somewhat unique digestive system. Made perfectly by the "Department of 4 legged innocent creatures" in God's laboratory. Fucking lunacy!

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Dani's avatar

Anything affecting the gas of an animal no doubt drastically changes something in the gut—and cows have a lot of stomachs.

And again of course they aren’t saying “hey what about all those factories in the east, and the ocean garbage islands, and the one-use masks 🤔 nahh we have paper straws that you 2 or 3 of in a drink because they disintegrate so quickly and choke humans—>less carbon!”

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Lee Proctor's avatar

For any vegan vigilantes out there I just want to state that flooded rice paddy fields account for 12% of global anthropogenic methane emissions

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Dani's avatar

Interesting!

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Wink's avatar

In short, They Lied! They Lied! They Freaking Lied Again!

It looks like that independent laboratory that offered results they didn’t “like” (Say for instance, The Truth!) got pulled back in and probably threatened and then paid off with more money to change the results…

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Gunnar Rundgren's avatar

Thanks for covering this topic. Ruminants have evolved over million years and in their digestive system there are microbes producing methane. They are part of being a cow, a sheep, a goat etc. To supress them and their cooperation with the host is to imply that the ruminants' digestive system was an evolutionary mistake, and that horses or other non-ruminants have some evolutionary advantage. Apart from the possible health or environmental risks of methane reducing feed additives, I believe it is simply an evolutionary dead end.

Also, the whole methane greenhouse gas thing is a lot more complex than most people believe and the focus on methane from ruminants takes attention away from the real problems of the food system and of the use of fossil fuels.

https://gardenearth.substack.com/p/the-methane-ruminations?

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Sue123's avatar

Another corrupt attempt to harm animal organs with chemicals and create disease and infertility in humans. The "study' is weak since only 5 cows and 20 cows were "studied". Even then, the results are alarming. Why would being given the green light to feed cows toxic chemicals result in the conclusion that that meat from those cows is safe for human consumption?

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BRK7_2's avatar

No study necessary and not deserving of our arguments. Climate change and toxic methane are both lies, as is the decrying of CO2. It’s a hoax, all of it.

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Roger Sterling's avatar

What could go wrong?🤦‍♀️. That and this global warming thing is pure BS

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Andy Boddington's avatar

Thank you Sonia

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Lisa Novakowski's avatar

This is a dangerous thing to do. What will the repercussions be?

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BRK7_2's avatar

Look, it’s no different than exchanging a spark-plug on your 1969 Dodge. Right? Go get that wrench and we’ll show you how you can bypass it with a pasta sieve. And, trust us, you neither need your appendix or tonsils either, just scrap body parts bypassed in evolution and not worth the paper in your body manual.

Yah. Just like the time-refined tried and true processes in the gut of your ruminant. It’s all inter-changeable. Where is that pasta sieve? Maybe some haywire and a swig of Gates motor oil…..

These animals are in our care and are our ethical responsibility. And millions of human lives downstream in our food production are affected by the same ethical decisions made by those entrusted with providing it. It’s high time to take responsibility for our lives and run the charlatans out of our food system. That’s the start.

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Klaus Hubbertz's avatar

Vegetarians fortunately can focus on other pressing topics.

For the chronically addicted carnivores it's helpful to know that grass-fed, free-roaming cattle raised on rotation-grazing pastures, enriched by droppings also of other animals produce less methane than the deplorable ones kept in stalls and fed processed feeds durig their whole life-time.

Buy local, avoid any chunk from the large meat-processing plants or dubious, industrialized origin.

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