Bovaer - additive to cow diets to reduce methane, more climate madness.

[Jones]

Retail giants Coles, Woolworths and Aldi in Australia will stock meat and dairy products from animals that have been fed Bovaer to reduce their methane production. The active ingredient of Bovaer is 3-Nitrooxypropanol. Here's what the NIH says about it.




Apparently there is currently no legal requirement for the use of Bovaer in feed to be included on product labels.

This will be a developing story because some farmers who disagree with it's use are writing posts to tell their clients that they don't or won't use the product and lists of products that contain it are being posted. There are also plans to put a bill before parliament to ensure that Bovaer is on product labels.

At a guess I think that those farms and feedlots that do use it will probably attract subsidies and will be able to market their products at lower prices.

Alternatively, if there's enough resistance, it could be another example of 'go woke, go broke.'

 

[Seppo Ilmarinen]

Alternatively, if there's enough resistance, it could be another example of 'go woke, go broke.'

There seems to be lot of activity in social media about this topic, and in Finland people have been contacting meat and dairy companies and starting boycotting those that have been using Bovaer in their cattle feed (such as Arla and Valio). Not sure does this reflect the awareness of wider population, but I'm fairly certain that most would, once informed, see the use of Bovaer as unnecessary, unethical and ludicrous practice, so hopefully this will spread enough and we'll see these companies punished by the consumer.

 

[Lorraine]

Retail giants Coles, Woolworths and Aldi in Australia will stock meat and dairy products from animals that have been fed Bovaer to reduce their methane production. The active ingredient of Bovaer is 3-Nitrooxypropanol. Here's what the NIH says about it.


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Apparently there is currently no legal requirement for the use of Bovaer in feed to be included on product labels.

This will be a developing story because some farmers who disagree with it's use are writing posts to tell their clients that they don't or won't use the product and lists of products that contain it are being posted. There are also plans to put a bill before parliament to ensure that Bovaer is on product labels.

At a guess I think that those farms and feedlots that do use it will probably attract subsidies and will be able to market their products at lower prices.

Alternatively, if there's enough resistance, it could be another example of 'go woke, go broke.'

Wonder if they’ll think of a way to put it in chickens and pigs. My husband would refuse not to eat meat so this will be a big problem

 

[Fluffy]

Wonder if they’ll think of a way to put it in chickens and pigs. My husband would refuse not to eat meat so this will be a big problem

My understanding that it’s just beef for now, lamb has been spared. Just wait, they’ll be doing something nasty to the kangaroos so we don’t want to eat them too.

 

[Lorraine]

My understanding that it’s just beef for now, lamb has been spared. Just wait, they’ll be doing something nasty to the kangaroos so we don’t want to eat them too.

It’s difficult to keep one’s spirit up isn’t it. They’re totally mad.

 

[mabar]

There seems to be lot of activity in social media about this topic, and in Finland people have been contacting meat and dairy companies and starting boycotting those that have been using Bovaer in their cattle feed (such as Arla and Valio). Not sure does this reflect the awareness of wider population, but I'm fairly certain that most would, once informed, see the use of Bovaer as unnecessary, unethical and ludicrous practice, so hopefully this will spread enough and we'll see these companies punished by the consumer.

In Mexico we are in complete darkness on this issue, according to some sites I found, the government authorized its use by the end of 2022. In this site as in other similar ones -with the same text- and from the company that produces (DSM), talks about its authorization in Mexico and all its supposedly benefits.

And it is very unlikely that we will find out which brands will use it because, here companies have the right not to specify it on the label or in any circumstances.

Anyways, it is good to know about other international brands because some of them also arrive here, such as Lurpark butter, that unfortunately apparently uses bovaer milk.

I used to have it as third choice if I couldn't find the one I usually eat. Expensive as hell (in comparison with the national ones), but that's how the others around here are, with colorants identical to butter, to mention an example! ...but now I've found out that they also mix it with canola oil (according to some people in the X thread).

 

[Fluffy]

It’s difficult to keep one’s spirit up isn’t it. They’re totally mad.

Yeah, today I had that feeling where I just wanted to be asleep and oblivious to it all. I was much happier living in lala land.