Everyone's talking about methane-cutting cow feed (again) – what's going on?
19 dec. 2024
08:06
In the quest to limit global warming to under 1.5C, reducing methane emissions from livestock, particularly cattle, is of critical importance. Many startups have solutions with real promise, but now some are facing a (slightly bonkers) backlash online.
Global efforts to reduce or mitigate the impact of man-made climate change have been regularly challenged by reactionaries and conspiracists who see shadowy forces at work wherever they look. But in the past weeks an unexpected controversy has blown up over, of all things, the bodily emissions of cows.
As Impact Loop's Christian von Essen reported on Monday (article in Swedish), big changes in agricultural regulations in Denmark will kick in this coming year, enforcing a broad swathe of measures to make Danish farms greener. It’s the “biggest change to the Danish landscape in 100 years," according to the article.