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Our food system is in desperate need of reform; people, animals and the Earth are suffering, says Gene Baur, an advocate for raising awareness about the negative consequences of industrialized factory farming . “Thankfully, we are beginning to pay attention. Many citizens are demanding more transparency around how food, and especially animal products, are produced. We are no longer comfortable accepting how agribusiness keeps animals who are raised for food hidden from us,” he says in this guest post.
A dash of oregano does more than make pizza taste delicious: it also can reduce the amount of methane in cow burps, new research shows. Scientists have been trying to decrease methane from livestock for years; methane is over 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide (CO2) as a greenhouse gas, and cows in the…
NGS photo by George F. Mobley By including two percent fish oil in the diet of cattle, the amount of methane released by the animals can be reduced, experiments in Ireland have demonstrated. “The fish oil affects the methane-producing bacteria in the rumen part of the cow’s gut, leading to reduced emissions,” says Lorraine Lillis,…
NGS photo by Volkmar K. Wentzel A cow with a name produces more milk than one without, scientists at Newcastle University in the UK say. “By giving a cow a name and treating her as an individual, farmers can increase their annual milk yield by almost 500 pints,” said the university’s Catherine Douglas and Peter…
