UDDER MADNESS: COW FEED ADDITIVE LINKED TO STERILIZATION | The HighWire

The HighWire with Del Bigtree | UDDER MADNESS: COW FEED ADDITIVE LINKED TO STERILIZATION
The battle to limit carbon emissions has reached a new level with Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos backing startups developing new vaccines to curb cow farts and burps.
See new findings in a recent study out of California on greenhouse emissions from bovine flatulence and why the UK is boycotting certain brands of dairy in the UK where the cows are fed a controversial drug.
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The Jaxen Report: "So that brings us to the question of livestock and cows. Bill Gates has invested almost $27 million in a startup for, as he said, a vaccine now to stop cow farts and burps, and that's through his investment fund."

"Now, Jeff Bezos also following in line with that because it looks like there's big money to be made here. Jeff Bezos backs development of fart vaccines for cows to help save planet. So in the UK, there's a product called Bovaer, and it's a feed additive, and it's supposed to reduce the methane emissions of livestock's dairy cows that are eating this."

"When you put it into their feed, they're supposed to have less methane that they expel out of both ends from Bill Gates. So the supermarkets out there like Arla, they're partnering to test this methane busting feed additive. So the headline says for dairy cows. So Arla is doing that in their dairy fields for the cows and then it puts that in their milk, it gets on their shelves in the supermarket."

"Well, the same similar thing I should say is happening over here in the United States. The FDA has approved the same feed supplement in May of this year. So this is the approval headline here, it proves first feed How did this all happen? Because, I mean, we have to, even if you believe this is true, why dairy cows?"

"It seems like there's a lot other things you can tackle before wanting to stop what's coming out of the front and back of livestock that have probably been on this planet to the degree that they've always have. Well, a 2006 United Nations report is where this all started. It's called Livestock's Long Shadow."

"And it says this in this report. Here too, livestock's contribution is enormous. It currently amounts to about 18% of the global warming effect, an even larger contribution than the transportation sector worldwide. 18%, larger than the transportation sector."

"So a bunch of cows and livestock are out there, and all of the cars and transportation in the entire world can't compete with what's coming out of their front and their back. Well, that, you know, a lot of people are scratching their heads. There's a UC Davis researcher, Frank, Mitt Lerner and he actually did a paper he said I'm gonna do a paper with some co-authors on that because I'm not sure I believe that sounds kind of crazy."

"So livestock's contribution to climate change he writes the impact of livestock on climate change in the United States and California have arrived at much different greenhouse gas emissions estimates associated with direct livestock emissions enter fermentation and manure totaling at less than three percent of total anthropogenic global warming and much smaller indirect emissions compared to the global assessment that was by the UN."

"And so he puts this out here and one of the main authors of that 2006 UN report in the BBC had to say this. He said, one of the authors of this livestock long-style says, I must say honestly that he has a point. We factored in everything for meat emissions and we didn't do the same thing with transport. We just... use the figure from the IPCC, he said. That's bombshell."

"So basically what this author's saying is we factored in everything for livestock, transportation to the field, from the field, to the processing plant, all the fertilizer, all the manure, the cost of clearing all the land of the trees to make the grass they graze on every single thing. And for transportation, it's like, well, it's just maybe a little bit that comes out of the tailpipe."

"Let's check that out. So totally unfair calculation that was thrown on the backs of livestock. And this is the equation, basically, that created these methane busting feed additives and cow fart vaccines. That's the whole rationale behind this is to cut that out. So let's look, let's go into the science here."

"In 2024, the FDA approved this. That's in May. And we have their actual letter here. And let's see what they say in their letter. It says based on the information provided in your letter, Bovaer 10 is an article other than food intended to affect the structure. or any function of the body of an animal, and therefore it is a drug."

"That's interesting because it's not considered a drug in the European Union, in the UK, but it is by the FDA here. It goes on to say, based on a review of your data and the characteristics of your product, FDA has no questions at this time regarding whether Bovertin will achieve its attendant effect and is expected to pose low risk to humans."

"So what they did here is the company did some tests, gave the FDA their probably sanitize results and said, here, look, it's great, I promise. And the FDA says, that looks good to me. We don't expect that to cause any problems with humans, stamp green light approval. That's how it worked. And so, and this actual letter, if you start scrolling down a little bit, you see a warning sign. What are they warning about?"

"Not for human use. Caution should be exercised when handling this product, three nitro oxypropanol. may damage male fertility and reproductive organs. Then it goes on to say it's harmful, inhaled, and skin irritant. But we have a study here, it was done in 2021 in Europe, and this was by the regulators, they wanted this data."

"And you can see here is the safety and efficacy of this feed. And you go in here, and it's from rats, they looked at the rat model, and it said, in tissues, the highest concentration were found in the liver, kidney, adrenal glands. Concentrations were found in the fat, muscles, and brain. So, I mean, for our audience, think lipid nanoparticles."

"Remember, this is just like any other thing. It's just like a food additive, but it finds bioaccumulates in all your organs. This is kind of what's going on here. And again, the muscle, this is what people are eating if they're eating the meat. And this is saying there's high concentrations in the muscle. We don't know what it does to humans."

"And so... We go into this study, this is a gigantic study, but let me just pull out a couple quotes in here. It says, based on the above, the Feed App panel concludes that the genotoxicity potential for 3-NOP cannot be ruled out, so they don't know what genotoxic effects it has. But let's go into fertility. It says, all females at 500 milligrams per kilogram of body weight showed evidence of mating, but none of the females became pregnant. And no corpora lutea. or implantation sites were found in any of these females."

"That seems like a problem. What about the men? Slight to severe decrease in spermatogenesis, that's the creation of sperm, that might be a problem, was observed in the testes of most males of the 300 milligrams per kilogram body weight per day. Sperm motility was reduced in most of the males at that same number, accompanied by decreased total sperm counts in testes and epididymides no evidence of recovery was observed after 13 weeks."

"Now, they're feeding them a little more than the cows would be fed or the livestock would be fed, but we don't know long-term bioaccumulation. We don't know these effects. So what's happening now in the UK? Predictably, you have a boycott. People of the UK are boycotting the milk from the cows that were given this feed additive now."

"Here's the headlines Tesco Aldi and Morrison's face boycott over controversial ingredient major dairy brand and you can see these pictures here people just the shelves are just empty on one side is the Good milk if you will the milk that hasn't been treated with anything that was controversial. The other side is that one has been treated with this ingredient."

"So I want to say this we have an example of this in the United States in the early 2000s Monsanto had an artificial growth hormone for cows and that was found to be getting into the milk. And there was a lot of protests about this. And it was at that time Walmart, the largest employer in the United States, said there's no more artificial growth hormone in our milk."

"That was a Reuters headline and that was the death blow. At that point, Monsanto divested ownership in the company of this growth hormone. They were out of the business. So the people voted with their dollars. And I wanna say this boycott. in the UK has all the ingredients to really move forward fast because on the shelves of every supermarket and every town is a vote, a vote against or for this top down climate push in the form of milk."

"And every citizen now in the UK has a voice to make this choice heard at the companies and force them to listen because it affects their bottom line. And this is what's happening right now. What's interesting is the Walmart boycott was for an artificial growth hormone. So arguably you could say there was actually a reason to have that because they would make the cows bigger, they would have more milk production and so on and so forth."

"It's good for business. It's questionable about this methane busting. What benefit does that have to people? What benefit does that have to farmers? There's really no positive benefit here if you don't believe in this climate model. If you don't believe in the science, that 18% UN model that started this whole conversation."