The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.
The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.
They can’t reduce “Dairy’s Climate Impact”. The greenwashing is over, that was meant to delay changes by “moderate” regimes. With conservatives in power, the greenwashing is no longer necessary. The only significant reduction is achieved by reducing the industry, the more shrinkage, the better.
You could in theory by doing things like producing milk through precision fermentation or by altering the gut microbiome of cattle. The latter being somewhat possible through dietary changes, but not financially supported in any meaningful way.
In any case, they’re not even pretending to try anymore
You can’t change the cows or the microbiome in any meaningful way, the methanogens are part of the digestive and nutrient extraction process. They can play with the food and sprinkle in selective antibiotics, but that usually leads the cows suffering or just not being “productive” enough. Now if you want to give some special feed to deer to make them produce less GHGs, that would be something interesting.