Sorry, cows. The planet comes first.
I don’t want to give the wrong impression. No order has been issued requiring Danish farmers to kill their cows. The state is merely requiring that they feed the cows poison.
The purpose of the wonder-additive, Bovaer, produced by a company called Elanco Animal Health, is to limit the methane that cows produce as they digest their food. Then, says Elanco, the amount of methane that the cows emit — by a method too indelicate to mention — will be reduced 30 percent. Elanco must have done some kind of testing to figure this out, I suppose.
What is the point, though? Why does anybody want to accomplish this?
Well, the central planners who mandate such things believe or say they believe that even a smidgen less methane in the air will enable them to fine-tune the global climate thus wise and so and thereby, something something something, a perfect optimization. Well, not perfectly perfect, not until all the bovines everywhere are gobbling Bovaer. Denmark is not the only country pushing the drug though.
Alas, some Danish farmers are being obstreperous, complaining that their cows are getting sick: lethargy, diarrhea, miscarriages, drops in milk production. Etc. Some are even dying as result of the additive.
It is sad. But I’d rather have a few dead cows than a dead planet with nonstop hurricanes and tornadoes. And that’s what’s gonna happen if we don’t find a way to inhibit the cows’ … methane emissions.
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Just the idea has already helped. First hurricane season in a while without a single hurricane making landfall on the US.
Weather is apparently amenable to manipulation by threat.
After the cows are eliminated, what about chickens, fish and humans? All produce methane. Even the beans you eat instead of meat produce methane as they are digested. Rice cultivation also produces methane. Where will your food source come from if agriculture is abandoned? Methane, like any gas, doesn’t respect international boundaries. Where’s the beef?
Care to bet the *elites* aren’t eating products from these poisened cows?
Humans emit methane, too. Are the Danes intent on forcing us to take that drug, too? By the way, as a piece of information that some folks don’t understand: Methane is not poisonous. It does burn, though, and it does a good job of heating food, when it does so.