By AR Williams, Canberra correspondent
CSIRO and Meat and Livestock Australia are championing a new seaweed-based feed additive, FutureFeed for cattle to prevent methane emissions from cow farts which are symbiotic with the natural environment. (https://www.future-feed.com/)
Only in Australia does such monumental, bureaucratic stupidity exist, paid for with taxpayers money and another slug against livestock producers, trying to remove a climate change problem that scientifically does not exist. Professor Ian Plimer explains:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/CrPmItKuXOE
While CSIRO contradicts itself in a number of topics the methane issue has confused its research officers no end.
In 2015 CSIRO said the real contribution of bovine methane gas towards a ‘Greenhouse Effect’ was actually much lower than first thought according to their media release:
‘Methane emissions from cattle in Australia are 24 per cent lower than previously estimated, equivalent to 12.6 million tonnes of carbon dioxide a year, following analysis of new Australian research data.
MLA General Manager, On Farm Innovation, Matthew McDonagh said the results of this Australian research provide an accurate dataset which clearly show our cattle contribute substantially less to methane emissions than previously believed.
“This revelation clearly shows livestock-based emissions are nowhere near what they were thought to be and will help improve the accuracy of Australia’s national greenhouse gas emissions estimates,” Dr McDonagh said.’
The CSIRO, NFF, MLA and Cattle Australia are qangos, in part feeding off the public teat and provide questionable support for the country’s struggling agricultural sector which is burdened with more legislative and regulatory oversight than nearly all of our trade competitors put together.
There has been no successful or appreciated farm producer lobby since Queensland’s popular farmer’s giant the Cattlemans Union amalgamated with the United Graziers Association to form Agforce circa 2000. Although moderately efficient, Agforce has evolved into a shadow of its former entity, the CU.
While Australia is known worldwide for producing the cleanest and greenest meat and farm produce it has not achieved this recognition solely from government regulations.
Most innovative cattle producers generally shun government intervention which unnecessarily adds to production costs and loss of control over their land.
Primary producers are becoming more fearful of federal Labor’s recently passed Environment Protection and Biodiversity Conservation Act (EPBC) which has the potential to wipe out states’ environmental regulations and replace them with something out of George Orwell’s imagination.
Consumers in recent times seem to have woken up to the fact farmers have no ability to recover legislative imposts and are price takers having to exist in a market driven economy and take what they get.
may i suggest that all the fart bags be sent to parliament house for emptying
Good points Keyboard Warrior. Even with all the wars to create global heaven for all the Big Banks they can’t make a fair dollar. They are into fraud and fiat currency so all seem to be bankrupt at the same time, can’t pay their way out now that silver has shown the true piracy that has been ongoing for centuries. All the C.E.O.’s and board members should be arrested and hung because of their fraudulent activities. I would not be surprised if they have been doing the same with gold marketeering. However has been allowed to happen, as undoing the situation “would bring down the whole financial markets” on which the millions of parasites exist.
Wont be going on for much longer though. Those involved will be going down but will also be bringing down the innocent investors.
Let’s get back to the true nature of banking whereby those institutions with a licence accept deposits and lend out at a reasonable interest rate and do away with ALL credit cards. Only money (cash or precious metals) legally in hands of banks to be loaned out without printed monopoly money being used.
Crooked Chief Health Officer Brett Sutton ran away from Spring St after harassment and got a top job in the CSIRO. At the lunch table I am sure he will advise his dodgy colleagues of potential blowback for their little schemes. Is it really worth it, not being able to walk the streets ? Sutton only relatively young and probably wasn’t planning to be semi-reclusive. Nobody should let him off lightly. Any such agent deserves to carry the heavy responsibility for killing granny, while pretending to save granny. He had a casual acting career on daytime TV to set himself up for public office. He knew he was going to be a puppet. What drives someone like that ? It’s in the family. Sister in law Jane Halton, have we all forgotten so quickly. Gates invited her to pre-covid “Event 201”, was that Sept (?) 2019. These people are Insiders, pretending they know nothing.
Bloody mongrels. Anything to destroy our farm animals for total bullshit. All these stupid idiots need rewiring desperately.
I can see where technocracy will take this.
They will put the cows in a row and collar them all to a beam with a gas collection roof over, then they will move the beam very slowly across the grass for the eating period, stopping at the preset cud-chewing time, milking time etc. This means the poop will be left behind and the cows always face fresh grass. They won’t waste time walking around aimlessly and all their gases will be collected. Their eating and resting will be fully optimalised to the last %. Sick or “individualistic” cows will be identifiable. The cows will be in their yoke from maturity to sale time, just eating machines.
This is technocracy utopia and it’s coming your way too.
These turds that produce all this “global warming” codswallop don’t care a damn about either commonsense or demonstrable facts of biological chemical economy; all they care about is the apparent certainty that as long as they continue to push the ideologically constructed band wagons they will not be destroyed in the media Colosseum and will be rewarded with money and prestige if they are sufficiently devoid of integrity.
Almost 100 years ago some diligent biologists discovered that the pesky termites (white ants) had even more efficient anaerobic bacteria in their guts able to digest stuff like cellulose with the by-product of methane than any other known animals. Those bods trapped gasses diffusing out of anthills and with guesstimating the mass of termites obvious, they concluded that about 75% of the methane produced on land comes from termites; i.e. about 3x what all the cows, goats, sheep, camels, deer, wildebeest, and all the known ruminants, plus all the bogs, marshes, shit pits, etc. that are known to produce methane by the anaerobic digestion of complex carbohydrates. Let’s not even consider how much burping and farting baleen whales might do.
Anyway, methane is not stable or permanent in the atmosphere, it is readily oxidised by oxygen radicles into horrid stuff like water and carbon dioxide.
wondering what happens to all the collected fart when the bag is full
I am amazed that no one has even latched on to the truth that all this bombing everywhere must be affecting climate change, making tectonic plates shift, causing massive pollution causing more extreme weather (unless that is deliberate which it probably is), affecting volcanos, creating tsunamis, flooding etc. Is it possible that this doesn’t harm the environment? 2,000 lb bombs, 30,000 lb bombs. No they just makes holes in the ground. Forget about the asbestos from the demolished buildings polluting the air. That’s ok because it’s ’over there’.
Could that possibly be because war creates billions of dollars for the banks, for those who produce weapons and also helps the US economy while cow farts cost you money? Shush.
Nah. That couldn’t possibly be true. We are much better than that!!! Well, I think so.
Poor buggers getting massacred. That’s over there too.
But if what is happening to our poor planet and its people is a reflection of the hearts of the people, as many a wise person has said, then we all need a time of deep reflection and repentance.
Or is that too far fetched and it’s all caused by cow farts?
It was Abraham Lincoln who called for a day of fasting and prayer because the people had forgotten their God. It wouldn’t hurt America today and the way Australia is going, it wouldn’t hurt us either.
I reckon cane toad farting is what everyone should be worried about ,so the toads should all be exterminated pronto
Denmark feed something to livestock.
Milk production down.
Livestock sick and dying.
Codswallop! How do they think this up!!
What a lot of rubbish .. poor animals suffers with this lies of climate change
Yeah, cow farts ended the ice age. How do morons manage to drive policy? Strength in numbers?
The Globalist lunatics who dream this stuff up must be laughing at the stupidity of Australian scientists who so willingly go along with this contagion of idiot ideas.
David Evans 4 degrees ex CSIRO did not buy into GW CC in fact he said we need more CO2.
His wife Jo Nova scientist and author holds similar views.
LIKE RUST, THESE IDIOTS THAT THINK ALL THIS LUNACY UP NEVER SLEEP.