Even so, animal ag still uses lots of land, water, risks pollution of air and water, pandemic and antibotic resistance.
Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely
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#42Few stories make me as happy as this one did. Thank you OP. Hopefully in the future I can enjoy a beef-steak guilt-free! The cow methane problem is one that literally keeps me up at night. I kept thinking about my inevitable switch to chicken and missing out on a tenderloin.. and how my kids won't be able to eat like me.
I feel ya and it would make my feel a little better about my meat treats, but improving that end (pun) of the equation seems to be a smaller problem than the energy required. > The findings, while expected, are quite sobering. Pork, chicken, dairy and eggs are equivalent within a factor of two when it came to their environmental burdens, the authors determined. But beef requires far, far more resources than any of th…
yea it seems weird that the methane would be the only thing to keep OP up at night...
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#43With an ag background I've been following this story for a long time. It has excited enough interest in America that trials are underway, I believe off the coast of Maine to grow red algae but I can't find the link. But they've already had luck growing red algae off the coast of the Hawaiian island of Molokai. I've been to Molokai and although there's a lot of farmland there it's laying idle. Most of the land was use…
Did Molokai farming end because of soil depletion, or ...?
It ended because it isn’t cost effective.
Re: Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely
#44Few stories make me as happy as this one did. Thank you OP. Hopefully in the future I can enjoy a beef-steak guilt-free! The cow methane problem is one that literally keeps me up at night. I kept thinking about my inevitable switch to chicken and missing out on a tenderloin.. and how my kids won't be able to eat like me.
I feel ya and it would make my feel a little better about my meat treats, but improving that end (pun) of the equation seems to be a smaller problem than the energy required. > The findings, while expected, are quite sobering. Pork, chicken, dairy and eggs are equivalent within a factor of two when it came to their environmental burdens, the authors determined. But beef requires far, far more resources than any of th…
Impossible Burger revolution is a better solution than an incremental improvement.
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#45So this begs the mildly racist question, do Japanese people fart? Can they light their farts on fire? Maybe not if the seaweed in the diet kills off methane producing bacteria.
i don't have an answer to your question. but Cooks Illustrated reports that adding kelp to beans makes the beans easier to cook: https://www.cooksillustrated.com/how_tos/6385-flavoring-drie...
That’s cool. Ty.
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#46How does a discovery like this take place? There must be so many crazy facts like this that have not yet been discovered, and able to make the world a better place. I'm guessing it started out as a hunch and snowballed into a study. Is there a way we can speed up the world's crazy thought ecosystem to promote sharing information that will lead to more discoveries like this?
you assume too much when you say it will make the world a better place, instead there's always something that can go wrong with such experiments, and their unintentional consequences
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
I believe grass fed cattle produce more methane actually.
Source?
Here’s one that I found:
https://www.carbonbrief.org/grass-fed-beef-will-not-help-tac...
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#48The original paper cited in this article is from 2016
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#49Re: Seaweed in Cow Feed Reduces Methane Emissions Almost Entirely
#50Can this study be done with the cow feed just being plain old grass? There’s lots of anecdotal evidence showing grass fed cows don’t produce much methane, thereby making pasture raised meat environmentally friendly. Yet there doesn’t appear to be many studies on it for whatever reason. Everything is focused on corn-based cow feed.
I don't think that's true at all.