Study: Feeding Cows Seaweed Could Reduce Global Greenhouse Gas Emissions by 99%
Research in north Queensland, Australia, has shown that feeding a small amount of dried seaweed to cows could reduce the methane they produce by 99%. Rocky De Nys, Professor of aquaculture at James Cook University in Townsville, has been experimenting with 20 different species of seaweed and quickly found one type of red seaweed, called Asparagopsis taxiformis, that seems to do the job in a huge way. First, they began testing it by using chemicals from a cow‘s stomach in the laboratory. “They get a little bit of material from inside the rumen that has all those microbes, and then they add them to different...
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