the big guy wants cows to be fed seaweed to prevent gaseous emissions

[franksolich]

http://jackpineradicals.com/boards/topic/how-to-stop-farts-from-warming-the-planet-feed-cows-seaweed-2/

Oh geezuz.

You know, Manny's jackass primitives have been begging, pleading, for others of them to get involved in reading and abstracting the WikiLeaks e-mails, there's so many of them; tens of thousands of them.

Conspicuously absent among the volunteers are the WillyT primitive, and the big guy who, now that he's retired and poor dear Marta's still around to do the housework, sits on his ass all day, finding nonsensical items to post.

Steve knows how to read and write; one thinks his talents in that should be spent on helping to read and abstract the WikiLeaks e-mails.  But perhaps that sounds too much like work?

Omaha Steve    (705 posts)    October 30, 2016 at 1:23 pm
 
How to Stop Farts From Warming the Planet: Feed Cows Seaweed

Livestock accounts for 5 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. Now scientists discover seaweed dramatically reduces methane in animal burps and farts.

OCT 25, 2016· 3 MIN READ·  David Kirby has been a professional journalist for 25 years. His third book, Death at Seaworld, was published in 2012.

Talk about magic seaweed: A single type of red seaweed could cut greenhouse gas emissions, fight ocean acidification, remove invasive species, restore fisheries, and help coastal economies around the world.

Researchers in Australia have discovered that the seaweed, Asparagopsis taxiformis, when mixed into livestock feed in small amounts, reduced methane emissions from sheep by up to 80 percent.

Livestock emit methane mostly through burping, while farts and manure also contribute to the total. The animals are estimated to generate 44 percent of all human-related methane, which has up to 36 times the global warming potential of carbon dioxide.

For the last few years, scientists have explored the use of seaweed additives to reduce methane emissions from livestock, with only modest results. A study published last year found a 16 percent reduction using one type of seaweed.

FULL story: http://www.takepart.com/article/2016/10/25/solution-planet-warming-cow-farts-seaweed?cmpid=tpdaily-eml-2016-10-25

[miskie]

"Don't Even.."

EOM.

[FunkyZero]

Jeebus H Christ, don't let my wife know. She'll make me start eating this stuff.

[SVPete]

OMG, it's the 21st Century version of the 70s panaceas: wind power is free: solar power is free; wave and tide power are free.

Now it's, The Seaweed that Saved the Planet!

There have to be at least 5 or 10 pretexts the NIMOs (Not In My Ocean!) could use to shut this down. Don't harvest the oceans! Don't disrupt the food chain of the seas! Seaweed farms will unleash invasive species!

Ignoring those stupidities, does OS have a clue how massive the livestock industry is worldwide? The massive logistic infrastructure he imagines could be poofed into existence to be the miracle-cure for his Glo-Bull Worming bogeyman?

Is OS the DU-member who claims he has progressive dementia? Or is this "normal" DU-Dementia?

Creationist stereotyped joke: If God meant for cows to eat seaweed He'd have given them fins and gills!

Mmmmm ... my coffee's extra good this AM!