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Monday, April 26, 2021

Adding seaweed to cattle diet cuts their polluting emissions

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Research has shown that feeding cows a type of red algae seaweed can reduce the amount of methane they release from flatulence and belching by as much as 80 per cent.

He noted that around 20 per cent of the cow's energy is lost when converting its feed into methane, so reducing methane production would mean less food is needed to grow the livestock.

Relate to qns on the role of science in solving envmtal issues....

Qn: Assess the view that attempts to control climate change can never be truly effective. (Cam. 2017)