Silicon dioxide is sand, and is used to make food free flowing. Go to the fridge look at that parmesan cheese shaker it will have Silicon dioxide or cellulose likely both as a anticaking agent.
Propylene glycol is a common food additive used to humidity and keep things from freezing. If you drink fireball whiskey you are drinking about 5% by volume PG it is also in a number of other liquors, candy and ice creams.
The last ingredient is the active ingredient it’s an enzyme inhibitor originally from seaweed. It was discovered that this compound stop methane making bacteria from completing the pathway to methane from free fatty acids or acetic acid. Both are what the cow lives off of. Every molecule of methane made by bacteria in a cows stomach is multiple less molecules of FFA or acetic acid which the cow needs for it metabolic energy source. Cows don’t eat grass the bacteria in their four chambered stomachs eat grass and turn it into a soup of bacteria protein, free fatty acids and acetic acid which the cow actually uses for metabolic use. Eliminating the methane is a good thing as it keeps more of the energy in the feed inside the cow where it makes meat, milk and leather rather than venting to the atmosphere. Too much gas in a cows stomach can cause bloat and that can kill cow so.win win. There is not tinfoil qtard quackery it’s not a DNA or RNA nonsense. It’s a simple chemical compound that inhibits a specific enzyme pathway effectively killing methane producing bacteria. It’s genius actually. Here again any energy wasted on methane is not available for the cows use to make meat or milk that’s basic physics too.
3-Nitrooxypropanol = HOCH2CH2CH2ONO2
There is no toxic elements it’s just,hydrogen,carbon and nitrogen.
“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 microbes living the digestive system of ruminants, such as cows and sheep.” - wiki
Thank you, sir for a rare chemistry and biology lesson. Unfortunately, the astonishing level of general public ignorance in all matters scientific won’t allow your voice of common sense to be heard. Pitchforks against silicon dioxide - that’s the ticket!
It’s often not the intended function that is the problem, but the unintended consequences that bite you.
In this case however, the intent of reducing methane emissions from cows is complete nonsense.
One unintended consequence (improving the cow’s digestion) may be good.
But what other unintended consequences might there be? The man who confidently tells me there aren’t any only succeeds in making me confident that he doesn’t know.