My ancestors, 150 years ago and more ago, from the Isle of Skye, collected seaweed from the shoreline. They let the, prodigious, rainfall then wash the salt off it. Then they fed it to their cattle. It wasn't a small amount to supplement regular feed either.
@kevwills85811 ай бұрын
Who were your ancestors ? Definitely not New Zealanders .. am guessing ..
@drpk6514 Жыл бұрын
I am a biologist working on symbiotic microbes (symbionts). The methane is produced by the microbes in the rumen of cows. We can screen them and select bacteria that produce less methane or not at all. These bacteria can be isolated and mass-produced in bioreactors and given back to animals (like a probiotic). If these bacteria dominate the rumen the amount of methane released would significantly reduce and they grow themselves. This might particularly be effective on young calves that microbes are just going to colonise. Furthermore. there are bacteria that actually fix nitrogen. These bacteria again could be isolated and produced. The cattle with such bacteria I assume might have a better rate of feed-to-protein ration ratio which means more meat with the same amount of food. This would revolutionise the industry if successful, cheap to do the research, produce and implement with significantly positive results for the industry, food security, prices, and environment.
@bubbajones6907 Жыл бұрын
I don't think that's good enough. We want the children to go vegan, or eat bugs.
@awolffromamongus875 Жыл бұрын
@@bubbajones6907okayyyy
@awolffromamongus875 Жыл бұрын
Sounds like Australia, through you're work, has a great tool to let Australia take responsibility for our activities. So, if we made inoculation of calves with no methane bacteria at birth (cover the teats?) mandatory, we could make a massive difference to Australia's greenhouse gas emissions?
@drpk6514 Жыл бұрын
@@awolffromamongus875 Theoretically yes. Just like any scientific hypothesis it needs to be tested and optimised. But it is not anything extraordinary. Even the probiotic pill you take is doing a similar thing which is changing your microbiome. The good thing about this is, it is very cheap and easy to impliment.
@kevwills858 Жыл бұрын
Will it stop us eating or industrially farming Red Meat though? A Group 2 Carcinogen according to WHO (HotDogs a Group 1) Go Maccas
@shoban1520 Жыл бұрын
Why can't we just stop eating cows? Those who cannot live without eating cow flesh could eat cultured meat.
@kevwills858 Жыл бұрын
100% I watched 3 docos that made me turn vegan 5y ago .. Cowspiracy, Earthlings and Samsara ... All independent and life-changing for me .. good or bad 🌏✌
@regenerationtrust5779 Жыл бұрын
It would be great if GMO Canola wasn't used
@kevwills858 Жыл бұрын
Cows/cattle are beautiful and smart domestic animals that deserve a better life than 2years in any FeedLot to die
@torgo_ Жыл бұрын
Wait, I'm confused.. it isn't stated directly, but, this is basically a herbal medicine to give to cows, to stop them from farting? Is that what this video is about?
@kevwills858 Жыл бұрын
yes and the doco 'Cowspiracy' will enlighten anyone attentive 👍
@sarcasmo5711 ай бұрын
I hope it all works out.
@robertcampbell6521 Жыл бұрын
Strange as it may seem cows and all animals have always farted and produced methane and guess what its produced by nature itself as well. Maybe if we just let cows eat grass we wouldn't have to go down this sort of ridiculous path , having owned and operated a feedlot years ago a feed supplier convinced me to try a new pellet feed that was far superior to grain for feed conversion . Luckily I only introduced about 1000 head to the new pellets as about a week later i had about 98% of those cattle severely bloated , the feed companies suggestion was drench them and there was Absolutely No chance it could be there pellets. First thing I did was shut them off the pellets and mixed large amounts of bicarb and molasses in there water troughs to entice them to self drench due to the sweetness of the water from the molasses , Luckily it worked and within about 3 days all bloating had disappeared . Only a week later i received a frantic call from the same feed company as they had convinced a much larger feedlot than mine to introduced the pellets , exactly the same thing happened except on around 15000 head with heavy losses . If we are so obsessed with methane production why not just let cattle eat grass as that's what they are supposed to eat !!
@shari9721 Жыл бұрын
There are 9 million dairy cattle living on factory farms just in the US , there isnt enough grass .
@kevwills858 Жыл бұрын
If you haven't seen or understand the doco 'Cowspiracy' you won't have a clue ... soz
@rrfarming553711 ай бұрын
agree
@TomoyoTatar3 ай бұрын
DCA - Sodium Dichloroacetate, also can cure cancer. It is bioavailable in Asparagospis'. They have it available commercially as a supplement, however, the synthetic version causes nueropathy.
@regenerationtrust5779 Жыл бұрын
Maybe just practice Regenerative Agriculture and reduce emissions naturally. Feed lots aren't the solution
@gardenwaster Жыл бұрын
If cows were meant to eat seaweed they would live in the ocean
@shootatsquare Жыл бұрын
True, but what does that say about grain?
@kevwills858 Жыл бұрын
Its all about the meat industry trying to stop meat polluting our atmosphere more than all cars, planes and buses combined ... It looks bad for Maccas
@hahahaa586111 ай бұрын
haven't u heard of extinct seacows😄...
@TomoyoTatar3 ай бұрын
What about manatees?
@ward582110 ай бұрын
Now,I feel much better about the buffalo extermination...
@crypticTV Жыл бұрын
18:50 clearly he's breaking the rules then. I definitely won't be eating any Australian beef after watching this. Wtf how can you allow a product before all the necessary studies have been submitted.
@crypticTV Жыл бұрын
@@tjmarx I have. Long term studies still haven't been completed and accumulation can have negative impacts
@kevwills858 Жыл бұрын
😄😄 Am guessing you haven't had a Covid shot yet then 😄
@kevwills858 Жыл бұрын
@@crypticTV like covid shots
@crypticTV Жыл бұрын
@@kevwills858 not getting COVID shots had serious immediate implications and clearly reduced the immediate severity of the disease at least. This is not a necessity. This is an unnecessary change to farming
@crypticTV Жыл бұрын
@@tjmarx food studies are often done after a bad outcome has occurred. In this instance there is a known accumulative effect on the undesirable traits of the compound. Also have you heard about animal testing mate 😂😂 you do it before human testing and that is before market testing 🤦🏻♂️🤣🤣
@KayAteChef Жыл бұрын
It is a very attractive prospect, to reduce 15% of global greenhouse gases to almost nothing. And we should try. But developing nations are very unlikely to pay for this supplement and even if it were free, they would be unlikely to invest time into a process with no payoff. But Australia exports a lot of beef so we could have a small but measurable impact on global emissions. I just wonder whether we should raise the cost base of Australian industry when developing nations are growing and industrialising at a pace that means Australia's efforts are almost pointless noise compared to global trends. We may just be pricing ourselves out of markets.
@HeartsOfMold Жыл бұрын
@2:52 bro loves his job 😢
@davidcarter4247 Жыл бұрын
Fluorescent lights contain mercury , EVs and their toxic batteries , solar panels and silicosis . Sometimes green things are a bigger problem that the things they replace.
@historychannel365 Жыл бұрын
@2:52 bro enjoys his work
@buildmotosykletist1987 Жыл бұрын
$1 a day makes it totally nonviable.
@kevwills858 Жыл бұрын
why? when Wagyu beef can cost $400/kg in Syd ??
@buildmotosykletist1987 Жыл бұрын
@@kevwills858 : LOL, I wish my grass fed Wagyu sold for $400Kg. Get real.
@buildmotosykletist1987 Жыл бұрын
@@kevwills858 : BTW, $1 a day would add about $1,000 in cost to each animal. So it's not difficult to see why it's totally unrealistic. Consumers could not afford that.
@kevwills858 Жыл бұрын
@@buildmotosykletist1987 When you say consumers, you mean McDonalds yeah?
@buildmotosykletist1987 Жыл бұрын
@@kevwills858 : LOL, I doubt Maccas buys Wagyu.
@kevwills85811 ай бұрын
Don't Dugongs fart ?
@kevwills858 Жыл бұрын
Dont worry about long term effects of instant solutions ... I mean .. We all took our Covid shots, didn't we ???
@clark11ification Жыл бұрын
so many woke people these day
@elliot8132 Жыл бұрын
What does that mean
@r.uuriintuyah.2053 Жыл бұрын
@@elliot8132Dude just wants to provoke. Just ignore him
@lilsleepy1969 Жыл бұрын
I am inside your walls.
@kennethtaylor1053 Жыл бұрын
@@elliot8132it means you're a bunch of nut gobs😂😂😂