Garlic-fed cows combat global warming

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Garlic-fed cows combat global warming

Published 04 August 2011

Reducing farm animals’ wind by adding garlic to feed could substantially reduce greenhouse emissions, according to research by West Wales’ scientists featured by Euronews.

An organosulphur compound obtained from garlic kills off methane-producing bacterium in the digestive system of cows, according to Professor Jamie Newbold, who heads up a €5 million-research programme at Aberystwyth University.

Cows eating  feed enriched with the garlic compound — called Allicin – release 40% less gas without interference to their normal digestive fermentation, according to the research.

Bad breath in cows. What's the cure for that?

What can I say?

[JohnnyReb]

If our milk cows got into the wild onions in the springg time you could taste the onions in the milk. If we killed a stear in the spring time, we had to shut him up and feed him clean hay and grain for 2 weeks before butchering him or you'd have onion flavor built right into the steaks.

I believe Garlic would have give the same effect/affect results.

[CG6468]

If our milk cows got into the wild onions in the springg time you could taste the onions in the milk. If we killed a stear in the spring time, we had to shut him up and feed him clean hay and grain for 2 weeks before butchering him or you'd have onion flavor built right into the steaks.

I believe Garlic would have give the same effect/affect results.

Sounds very logical to me.

[JohnnyReb]

Funny thing about wild onions around here. The wild onions that people dig up in spring time and eat is actually "Garlic" and the garlic that is poisonous is actually onions. There is only a very slight difference between the two and I never keep straight which is which...so I don't eat wild onions.

There's a colored friend of mine that lives up north. We were raised up together less than a mile appart. He used to come down every spring and he would come by to see me. Before he went back up north he would come by and gather wild onions from my fields for his mother. She just had to have a "bait" of wild onions every spring to clean her system out or else she might die. I didn't see him this past spring as was the usual custom. He called the other day wanting to take his grandsons fishing and frog gigging like we used to do to show them how we used to live. I asked about his mother and why he hadn't come by for her "bait" of onions. She passed away last winter. He laughed and said something to the effect that if she could have made to wild onion season that he was sure she would have made another year.

[Wineslob]

Garlic-fed cows combat global warming

Published 04 August 2011

Reducing farm animals’ wind by adding garlic to feed could substantially reduce greenhouse emissions, according to research by West Wales’ scientists featured by Euronews.

An organosulphur compound obtained from garlic kills off methane-producing bacterium in the digestive system of cows, according to Professor Jamie Newbold, who heads up a €5 million-research programme at Aberystwyth University.

Cows eating  feed enriched with the garlic compound — called Allicin – release 40% less gas without interference to their normal digestive fermentation, according to the research.

Thats ALL you need to know about ANY Glowballs Warming "research".

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Thats ALL you need to know about ANY Glowballs Warming "research".

I know. I saw that. But I am merely a low life observer and reporter of the passing scene. 

[NHSparky]

If our milk cows got into the wild onions in the springg time you could taste the onions in the milk. If we killed a stear in the spring time, we had to shut him up and feed him clean hay and grain for 2 weeks before butchering him or you'd have onion flavor built right into the steaks.

I believe Garlic would have give the same effect/affect results.

Pre-seasoned steaks.

You make this sound like a bad thing...