Posted on 02/16/2016 5:33:02 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Famous for complementing Mediterranean and Mexican cooking, the herb could now be a key ingredient in lowering global greenhouse gas emissions.
Cows' farts have long been recognised as a contributor to climate change. Their digestion creates methane as a by-product and that methane is 25 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere, although it only remains for a decade.
Scientists and farmers have consequently been experimenting on ways of reducing those emissions. Adding fat or nitrate to animal feed - or feeding cows and other livestock better quality food - has been shown to help.
But organic farmers are often unable to use these methods. This drove researchers at Asshus University in Denmark to tackle the problem.
Through laboratory research, they have calculated that oregano can have a big effect on the methane emissions from livestock.
Greek oregano, the test species being used in the study, has a high content of essential oils, which reduces the methane produced in cow's rumen as they digest food.
The research will continue over the next four years. The milk will be sold on the basis of its "climate-friendliness", the research team says.
(Excerpt) Read more at mg.co.za ...
My Italian aunt always made a bay leaf tea for my tummy aches. Probably had lemon and sugar in it. I don’t like yuk.
And at 5 times the usual price, something else the Whole foods crowd can buy to feel good about themselves.
Unintended consequences...
The price of pizza, spaghetti sauce and phony pot sales doubles...
Eat more Chicken......chickens don’t fart??
My chick does-oh sorry...............
Their digestion creates methane as a by-product and that methane is 25 times more effective than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the atmosphere ...Twenty-five times nothing is still nothing.
Maybe it will make them taste even better.
India has lots of cows wandering because they are sacred and can’t be killed. Hope they can eat oregano.
With the pending ice age coming we need to feed more beans to the cows.
Well! That’s great news!
Now, we may be able to eat a hybrid pinto bean crossed with oregano that is FARTLESS!
We can then export these beans south of the border and end this terrible global warming due to hot bean farts coming from eating Mexican food.
resuming naval gazing on this end
I’m calling BS. A lifelong consumption of oregano has not decreased my outgassing.
Cow mufflers revisited?
Milk not so much.
O.K. I guess, if you don’t mind your milk, cream, cottage cheese, yogurt, ice cream, etc. all tasting like oregano. Any strong flavor that a cow eats passes through into the milk. In the spring wild garlic in the pastures is a problem because the cows love to eat it, but the garlic stinks up the milk. Sometimes if the milk from a particular farm is really strong, the bottling plant will reject it, and it goes down the drain.
Nowadays with large farms, and cows kept confined, garlic is no longer as big a problem. But if you FEED them oregano, you bring it on yourself. Total insanity, IMHO, since global warming is a lie and a farce to begin with.
P.S. That very inquisitive-looking cow in the photo below your reply looks very much like one of the Chick-fil-A photo models in their advertising.
Oregano-flavored milk, anyone?
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