Why are people pouring Milk down the drain over a cow feed additive?

BBC ^ | Dec 4 | BBC

[RandFan]

Some UK social media users have been pouring milk down their sinks and toilets in protest at the trial of a new feed additive that claims to significantly reduce the emission of methane gas in dairy cows.

Arla Foods, a Danish-Swedish company which owns the UK’s biggest dairy cooperative, announced last week that 30 of its farms across the country would test the additive, named Bovaer.

The company says Bovaer - which is added in small quantities to cow feed - could reduce cow methane emissions by between 30-45%.

It has been approved for use by UK regulators, and several major supermarkets will stock milk produced by cattle eating feed with the additive.

Some online users have raised concerns around the use of Bovaer, citing issues around the safety of certain compounds used in it.

However, experts have told the BBC that the additive “does not pose any food safety issues”.

Other consumers have been threatening to boycott products from leading supermarkets in anger over the trial, while multiple farmers have taken to social media to inform consumers that they don’t use Bovaer.

Meanwhile, baseless claims of it being part of a “depopulation” plot have swirled online alongside misinformation about its links to US-billionaire Bill Gates.

[RandFan]

Misinformation (Alert! ⚠️) Usually means the reports are correct?

[Openurmind]

GOOD! Mass disobedience is the only thing that will shut this population reduction agenda down.

[wildcard_redneck]

Bill Gates is a creepy weasel who should have zero input into the food supply. I am glad people in the UK refuse to eat anything that reptile offers. Cow farts are not a real issue and adulterating the food supply with chemicals that serve no useful purpose but to appease the lefts pagan weather gods is a crime against humanity.

[Rio]

Here is the product web page:

https://www.dsm.com/anh/products-and-services/products/methane-inhibitors/bovaer.html

Doesn’t really say what’s in it.

[1malumprohibitum]

I doubt it does what it claims to. I doubt even more that it does so safely. Even if it did both, I would purposefully choose another Milk that doesn’t have it. There is no way I would support such ridiculousness. Let the test case companies lose their shirts on this.

[Twotone]

Don’t pour the milk you have NOW down the drain. (Which probably doesn’t have the additive.) Refuse to buy any milk in the future & let the dairy farmers & gov’t know it. That will discourage them from more of this nonsense.

[unread]

"reduce the emission of methane gas in dairy cows."

You've got to be kidding me...

Maybe we should just wait for Jerry Nadler to leave this planet and we'll all be able to breath easier.

[NorthMountain]

“Climate Change” is BS ...

I’d like to see the ingredients list.

And compare it to the ingredients list for “Beano”.

[Sirius Lee]

Beano is a friend on Mexican Night.

[bk1000]

My wife grew up on a dairy. She told me that cows don’t really fart. I assumed they did.

[Openurmind]

“My wife grew up on a dairy. She told me that cows don’t really fart. I assumed they did.”

And “they” know this too. That is why they tried to change the narrative keyword to cow “burps” instead of farts.

[Ghost of Philip Marlowe]

More .gov action based upon foundational lies: methane is causing Global Warming....I mean Global Cooling....I mean Global Warming....I mean....wait, what is it this month? Oh, Weather!

They’ve only switched to methane because the CO2 lie has completely fallen apart.

The world puts more methane into the atmosphere and has for tens of thousands of years than any dairy or cattle farming could ever hope to challenge.

The peat bogs spew massive amounts of methane.

The ocean spews massive amounts of methane. Shipping documents from the 18th and 19th century cite massive walls of water in the area of the Bermuda Triangle. One theory is that they were massive (over a mile long) ‘bubbles’ of methane gas being released from the ocean floor.

“Cow gas” is a non-issue.

No reason to further poison our food supply based upon a lie.

[mad_as_he$$]

“HOCH2CH2CH2ONO2”

Wiki

3-Nitrooxypropanol (abbreviated as 3-NOP or 3NOP) is a synthetic organic compound with the formula HOCH2CH2CH2ONO2.[1] It is the mononitrate ester of 1,3-propanediol and acts as an enzyme inhibitor that specifically targets methyl coenzyme M reductase (MCR), the enzyme that catalyzes the final step of methanogenesis in the digestive system of ruminants, such as cows and sheep.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3-Nitrooxypropanol

[Stingray51]

Is this poison (or some cousin of it) allowed in the USA?

[butlerweave]

so they buy milk to pour it down the drain and the ones protesting the additive probably drink like fish and smoke 4 packs a day , LOL

[mabarker1]

So it’s about Simethicone(Gas-X) ?

[Doctor Congo]

My chemistry and biology knowledge is fading over the years.

I just read several articles about this alteration of a cows normal body functions and it was hard to understand. But this additive results in the production of excess hydrogen instead of CO2. What happens to all this hydrogen? Do we get NO2 instead? NO2 is one of the reasons they are coming after my gas stove.

[Nebr FAL owner]

Remember the politicians&talking heads all saying the covjd vaccine was safe & effective, only to find out that was a lie. I do & am glad I didn’t get the Fauci cot shot.

[antidemoncrat]

“reduce the emission of methane gas in dairy cows.”

I think they should put this stuff in whatever politicians drink and that would reduce methane gas emitted into the air by at least 10 times over what cow emit.

[aMorePerfectUnion]

Insist on Full Fart Milk!