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Meanwhile, more than 2.8 million people have signed an online petition calling for another UK general election.
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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.
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.
With the UK government being so tone-deaf, it’s a wonder it will last that long.
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