Methane madness: How exaggerated climate claims are targeting farmers and cows

 As climate alarmism continues to take over headlines in the mainstream media, methane emissions from cows have become the latest target of overzealous policymakers. Governments worldwide, from the Netherlands to the United Kingdom, are imposing draconian regulations on farmers, forcing them to feed their livestock methane-reducing supplements like Bovaer. But is this war on methane justified? A growing body of scientific evidence suggests that the climate impact of methane has been grossly exaggerated, and the policies targeting agriculture are based on shaky, if not outright pseudoscientific, foundations.

The "Methane and Climate" study, authored by physicists William Happer and W. A. van Wijngaarden, has emerged as a critical rebuttal to the prevailing narrative. Published by the CO2 Coalition, the study meticulously dismantles the claim that methane from agriculture poses a significant threat to the planet. By analyzing the radiative properties of methane, the authors conclude that its warming potential is negligible compared to carbon dioxide (CO2). Despite this, climate activists and policymakers continue to push for costly and disruptive measures that threaten the livelihoods of farmers and the affordability of food for consumers.

At the heart of the debate is the concept of radiative forcing, which measures how greenhouse gases trap heat in the atmosphere. While methane is often labeled a "super pollutant," Happer and van Wijngaarden’s research reveals that its warming effect is minimal. Methane molecules are far less abundant than CO2, and their warming potential is heavily "saturated" at higher concentrations. In other words, adding more methane to the atmosphere has a diminishing effect on global temperatures.

Research also highlights that methane concentrations are increasing at a rate 300 times slower than CO2, making its annual contribution to warming roughly one-tenth that of CO2. This stands in stark contrast to the apocalyptic rhetoric often used by climate activists, who portray methane as a dire threat to the planet....<<<Read More>>>...

Denmark’s “cow fart” tax is a statist intervention to change the public’s behaviour

Cow farts are a distraction, and the joke’s on us. The Danish tax on cow farts is a significant step toward the state ownership of the means of production. As the history of centrally managed economies shows, it’s not likely to end well.

Denmark, according to The New York Times, is going ahead with its livestock “Burp Tax.” Though hotly contested, the Danish government has nevertheless finally settled on levying farmers 300 kroners (~US$43) per tonne for carbon dioxide emissions, ramping to US$106 per tonne by 2035. As is the case with many of these farm-targeted green interventions, the action is ludicrously ineffectual at addressing the trumped-up problem, while remarkably effective at further cementing state controls over economic production.

Part of the reason farms, and especially cows, are such fat targets for this kind of statist* intervention is that, politically speaking, they are the perfect scapegoat. It all seems so harmless, after all – so silly even – that serious-minded folk risk looking ridiculous if they object. Is it really so very draconian, goes the argument, to ask farmers to reduce their cow flatulence? The ever-so-reasonable request (enforceable by law, to be sure) glides under the radar in a scree of giggle-inducing copy that distracts readers to what is really afoot....<<<Read More>>>...

Claim: Measuring farm animals burps and farts will help save the planet. Verdict: FALSE.

An article by Vox claimed that methane produced by farm animals is a significant contributor to global warming and scientists measuring burps and farts could help save the planet.

The scientists who are being paid, most likely handsomely, to measure methane emissions from animals may not like to hear this, but measuring burps and farts will not save the planet. 

 Methane, a small trace gas, has a short atmospheric life and plays a relatively minor role in long-term warming, despite its high warming potential per molecule.

A recent article at Vox, titled ‘Scientists are measuring burps and farts. It could help save the planet’, claims that methane produced by farm animals is causing dangerous global warming, and thus that reducing agriculture-related methane is critical to limiting warming to the 1.5°C target established for political ends in the 2015 Paris climate agreement. 

This is false. Animal-related methane is not a threat to the environment, contributing little if anything to global warming.

The article primarily references research efforts by scientists in Columbia who measured the amount of methane different farm animals produce in their burps and gas depending on what kind of forage they eat, in order to determine the feed that will produce the least methane. Animals are placed in chambers and their emissions are monitored....<<<Read More>>>....

New Bovaer fears: UK Government 'commits' to giving ALL cows in England controversial feed by 2030 - amid ongoing dairy boycott over 'toxic' additive

 What a devious way to make UK folk stop eating dairy products? The government knows that people won't willingly stop drinking milk, eating yogurt or cream.... so instead they claim to have invented a toxic product to give to cattle to stop them farting, knowing damn well the products will be boycotted due to the supposed contamination ....

Devious or are they really putting this shit into our cattle?

Surprisingly in this elite owned newspaper report, there is a claim that the contaminate is harmless to humans ... yet when you study its chemical constituents you can see the truth is contrary to this gutter press lie. 

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All 'suitable' British cattle will be given methane-reducing chemical Bovaer or Bovaer-like products by law by 2030, under controversial Government plans.

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....<<<Read More>>>...

Arla’s Bovaer food additive is not food, it is a drug

 Last week, we published an article about the project Arla has launched to feed cattle with Bovaer which contains silicon dioxide, propylene glycol and 3-nitrooxypropanol (“3-NOP”). According to the FDA, Bovaer is not a food, it is a drug.

There has been an enormous public backlash with the public boycotting Arla products and Arla’s partners.

There seems to be a lot that is unknown about this new drug being fed to dairy cattle. Considering it is what can only be described as an experiment on both animals and humans, it’s not surprising farmers and the public are outraged.

The UK Food Standards Agency is insisting Bovaer is “safe.” A spokesman told MailOnline: “Milk from cows given Bovaer, a feed additive used to reduce methane emissions, is safe to drink.”

On Monday, The Standard said, “On 26 November, Arla announced a new project that it hopes will cut the UK’s methane emissions. Methane is a greenhouse gas and contributes to climate change … The initiative is part of Arla’s wider commitment to reduce the environmental impact of its dairy production. The organisation is aiming to reduce its CO2 emissions by 30 per cent by 2030.”

Using the excuse “to reduce methane emissions” and “CO2 emissions” and then tying it to Agenda 2030’s deadline of 2030, should raise an immediate red flag to anyone who has done even a little research in the last few years.

There is no anthropogenic climate change crisis, and, as we mentioned in our article last week, methane is an important part of the biogenic carbon cycle. As we all know from primary school lessons, carbon dioxide (CO2) is the elixir of life, supporting plants since the world began and making virtually all life on Earth possible.

The whole false anthropogenic climate change narrative should have disintegrated in 2009 when the Climategate emails were released. But such is the determination, and money, of those who want to keep the UN’s agenda alive....<<<Read More>>>...

Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos want “climate vaccines” laced into the food supply

 More fear narratives from The Pantomime. More apparent madness from the criminally insane.

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Billionaires Jeff Bezos of Amazon and Bill Gates of Microsoft are scheming up plans to mass-"vaccinate" the population with "climate vaccines" hidden in food.

In order to stop "global warming," Bezos and Gates feel as though livestock animals raised for meat need to be jabbed with God-knows-what in order to reduce their "methane emissions," aka flatulence, or farts.

According to Bezos and Gates, cows and other meat animals are passing too much gas, which is making temperatures too warm. As such, Bezos is personally investing nearly $10 million to develop a "climate vaccine" that will stop meat animals from farting and save the planet from a changing climate.

"The 'vaccine' is designed to reduce the number of methane-producing microbes in a cow's stomach," reports explain.

"The funding comes from his Bezos Earth Fund, a philanthropy he established with $10 billion in 2020 ... The fund intends to distribute all of its money by 2030."

According to Bezos, all $10 billion in the Bezos Earth Fund will be used to "fight climate change and protect nature."...<<<Read More>>>....

Is Banning the Burps of Bullocks Worth Risking Our Bollocks?

Cattle have long been accused of being among the top enemies of the climate. Despite the fact that creatures resembling our favourite Sunday dinners have been roaming the surface of the planet in their countless numbers for millions of years, climate warriors cannot distinguish between a cow, a car and a coal-fired power plant. 

Eating beef is destroying the planet, they claim. 

Some have demanded that livestock farming be abolished altogether and that governments intervene to force us into veganism by legislation. Others think that we can be ‘nudged’ into lentil-eating by re-branding it as a ‘plant-based lifestyle’. 

At the softer end of climate wars, however, are the innovators, who claim to have found a way to stop cows burping and farting ‘planet-destroying’ gases. The problem for them is that people aren’t buying that claim....<<<Read More>>>...

Arla’s project adding anti-methane compound to cows’ feed is another limb of the fake food agenda

 Arla has enlisted 30 farms to participate in trials of an additive to cattle feed that they claim will reduce methane gas emissions. As the safety of the product is as questionable as the dubious reasons for introducing it and the risk to humans is unknown there has quite rightly been a public backlash.

Aside from the health and environmental risks, as Dr. Lawrie highlights, this is just another instance of billionaires meddling with our food supplies. This should raise red flags for anyone who understands what, for example, Bill Gates’ aims are.

As part of its FarmAhead Customer Partnership initiative, Arla has joined forces with Morrisons, Tesco and Aldi to trial the use of Bovaer, a feed additive that reduces enteric methane emissions from cows on average by 27%. The project will also involve around 30 of Arla’s farmer owners.

Bill Gates has an unhealthy obsession with cows producing methane gas. His obsession is, of course, driven by how much money he can make out of his pandemic and climate scams. However, Newsweek reported that Bill Gates has not invested in Bovaer, he has invested in a similar bovine animal feed additive through Rumin8. Bovaer is a product developed by the Dutch company DSM-Firmenich.

Whether it is Gates, another oligarch or a large corporation attempting to corner the market and control the food supply through vaccines or feeds, the facts remain the same. There is nothing wrong with cows producing methane. On the contrary, as we noted in an article last year, methane from cattle is part of nature’s biogenic carbon cycle. Plants capture carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere, absorbing the carbon and releasing the oxygen, the carbon is converted into carbohydrates and consumed by the cow where it is digested and some of the carbon is belched from the cow as methane. After an average of 10 years, the methane is converted into CO2 and so the cycle continues....<<<Read More>>>...

From The Ridiculous to The Sublime - BURPS, FARTS AND TAXES: Denmark becomes the first country to tax farm animals’ methane emissions

 Another script from the pantomime known as 'The Mad World' ... for the benefit of the gullible useless eaters set up by the psychopathic 10% who KNOW there is no climate change caused by CO2, Methane or anything. There is no greenhouse gas damage.....

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 Denmark has just passed the first tax in the world on animal belches and flatulence in a bid to protect the environment.

The tax has been under negotiation for several years and was just passed by the Danish parliament.

The measure, which will go into effect in 2030, will see farmers assessed a charge of 300 Danish kroner (roughly $43) for each ton of carbon dioxide equivalent produced by their operations. This tax will more than double within five years, hitting 750 kroner (or around $106 right now) by 2035.

However, farmers will receive a 60% rebate because the technology does not yet exist to get rid of flatulence completely. The rebates will go up for farmers who take steps like sending their pig’s manure to machines that can pipe the methane to the gas grid or use additives in cows that will reduce the methane in their burps. Of course, one has to wonder what chemicals that can change an animal’s body chemistry enough to reduce the methane in their burps could do to the health of the people who consume them.

The government’s green transition minister, Jeppe Bruus, said in a statement: "We will do what it takes to reach our climate goals. [It is a] huge, huge task that is now underway: to transform large parts of our land from agricultural production to forestry, to natural spaces, to ensure that we can bring life back to our coastlines."

Denmark has five times as many cows and pigs as it does people, and almost two thirds of the country’s land is used for farming. As a result, agriculture contributes more to pollution than any other industry, putting it in green politicians’ crosshairs.

Arla Foods, the biggest dairy cooperative in Europe, is in favor of the move. Although they don’t necessarily support a tax, they believe that the compromise is a reasonable solution to the environmental concerns associated with dairy farming.

The company’s CEO, Peder Tuborgh, said: “They understand they need to do it; they want to do it. They know it is protecting their reputation, and they’re still producing.”

A dairy farmer who supplies Arla Foods, Jens Christian Sorensen, said he is trying to understand what the tax will mean for him as he has 300 milking cows along with a further 360 calves who are not yet producing any milk but are producing methane. He’s investing in sensors that can tip him off when his cows are sick, and he is tracking their food consumption and milk production as well.

Meanwhile, demand for Danish dairy is rising as global dairy consumption increases. Two thirds of Danish butter and half of its milk powder is exported...<<<Read More>>>...

Genetic engineering of livestock and crops will contaminate our food with novel genetic sequences which will have unknown consequences for health

 New Zealand’s livestock products rely on its clean green grass-fed image. Why then is the New Zealand government and agricultural organisations throwing it away in favour of adopting biotechnology tools that genetically alter livestock?

The excuse given for conducting genetic research on livestock using an RNA platform is to reduce methane emissions. This biotechnology industry is born out of the vague promises of gene dreamers that it will be “safe and effective” and the discredited notion that animal methane emissions are at the heart of climate change.

But, as Dr. Guy Hatchard points out, let’s not forget that methane is produced from the normal digestive processes of animals that have been roaming the planet in large numbers for thousands of years without warming the globe.

It’s not only animals that they are planning to genetically modify, it is crops as well. The proposed biotechnologies aimed at methane reductions and crop characteristics will contaminate our traditional foods with novel genetic sequences with as yet unknown consequences for animal and human health, Dr. Hatchard warns....<<<Read More>>>...

These people are mentally ill: British cows could be replaced with ‘double-muscled’ European breed to cut emissions

 BS warning. This article contains some total BS about cow farts and dangerous cow flatulence emissions. It is totally farcical nonsense being spewed by the BS brigade,

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British scientists are investigating whether replacing traditional breeds of cow with a “double muscled” breed could be better for the environment.

Cattle farming is a major source of greenhouse gases because the animals need land to graze, and they produce vast volumes of flatulent methane, which is 80 times more potent for global warming than carbon dioxide.

Britain currently has cow herds and breeds specifically for dairy, some only for beef, and some cross-breeds which can be used to produce both meat and milk.

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) has funded a study with more than £10,000 of taxpayers’ money in which scientists at Harper Adams in Shropshire, a specialist agricultural university, will investigate possible ways of reducing emissions.

Possible routes being studied include increasing the use of dual-use cows instead of dairy-only herds and also swapping traditional British breeds for more muscular breeds that produce more meat.

Scientists conducted a modelling study using farm data and previously published information to see if these switches would improve emissions.

Swapping the traditional black and white dairy cows, holsteins, for dual-use cattle was one aspect of the study. The second aspect involved seeing if swapping herefords or angus cows for super-muscular breeds would be beneficial.

The brief from Defra mentioned the possibility of pivoting to European breeds, such as the charolais or Belgian blue, but the scientists focused on the British blue.

The British blue has a gene mutation that allows it to naturally grow 20 per cent more muscle mass compared with other breeds while the animal is fine-boned and docile by nature, which leads to high volumes of meat produced per animal.

“British blue cattle tend to be more efficient with faster growth rates, higher carcass weights and a lower age at slaughter, which reduces their carbon footprint compared with the angus breed,” said Prof Jude Capper, lead author of the Government-commissioned study at Harper Adams University....<<<Read More>>>...