Dairy farmer Aidan Bichan poses in front of cows as they are being milked at Kaiwaiwai Dairies on Nov. 2, 2022, in Featherston, New Zealand. It might sound like the start of a humorous riddle, but it's the subject of a huge scientific inquiry in New Zealand. And the answer could have profound effects on the health of the planet.
Nothing is off the table, from feeding the animals more seaweed to giving them a kombucha-style probiotic called “Kowbucha.” One British company has even developed a wearable harness for cows that oxidizes methane as it's burped out. “I don’t believe there’s any other place that has the breadth of ambition that New Zealand has in terms of the range of technologies being investigated in any one place,” said Peter Janssen, a principal scientist at AgResearch, a government-owned company that employs about 900 people.
Inhibitors could also reduce methane by at least 30 per cent and perhaps by up to 90 per cent, according to Janssen. The challenge is that the compounds need to be safe for animal consumption and not pass through the meat or milk to humans. Inhibitors must also be regularly administered.But other technologies such as selective breeding, which could reduce methane output by 15 per cent, will be rolled out onto sheep farms as early as next year, Janssen said.
At one greenhouse on the campus, scientists are developing genetically modified clover. Visitors must wear booties and medical scrubs and avoid putting down objects to prevent any cross-contamination. “What this team has done is they’ve actually identified, through their research, a master switch that switches on condensed tannins in the leaves,” said Linda Johnson, a science group manager at AgResearch.
The world must have really cooled down in the late 1800s, after the culling of millions of buffalo.
Silly idea.
I thought it was only the farts.
Is anyone taking this BS seriously anymore like wtf.
There is no global warming this is simply a ploy to Steel land and to lower the amount of food in the food supply. If you are real journalists you would know this, but you're not you're simply left-wing propagandists
Co2 is in the air, goes into the earth, cows eat, cows burp, co2 goes back into the air. It’s a CYCLE! NO NEW CO2 IS PRODUCED!!!!!!
Wtf
'New Zealand targets cow burps to help reduce global warming' 🤡 I think we need to reduce food that causes human farts too. 7 billion people That's a lot of farting effecting climate change and global warming ! .
CTV is Comedy Central. I laugh at every headline they have. F’in 🤡🤡🤡
In other words, governments target farmers and raise the cost of food above already insane levels
New Zeland targets farmers in technocratic overhaul.
Idiots
Global Warming uses cow burps to Increase Global Warning . read
Please stop this rubbish
New Zealand just has their shit together
What about people flatulence? Shall we put butt plugs on all citizens? What kind of lunacy has corrupted this world?
Just burps? Not farts?
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