Sam

🇪🇺 No Gas, No Oil, No Problem: "The cheapest energy is the one you don't use." Ursula von der Leyen suggests going greener and renovating buildings to reduce energy requirements. She wants to respect consumer choice … so how about buying Russian gas so the industry will survive? How about this consumer choice? So that Europe survives as an industrial wealthy region?

Bovaer is a mistake — hubris. Ruminants have evolved over millions of years. They have perfected their four-stomach system that can digest cellulose and turn it into nutritious dairy. It's an advanced process that we don't know how to do. In fact the ruminants can't do it themselves either, they form a symbiotic relationship with bacteria. This process has developed so that it emits methane in all ruminants. This means that there is a strong evolutionary reason for doing it this way. Now the drug Bovaer prevents this natural step of the process from happening, by suppressing the enzymes that carry it out. What happens in the rest of the complex system that is ruminant digestion when part of it is suppressed? We don't know! All we know is from a few metrics that have been measured. Methane output is reduced. Feed intake is also reduced, which already is not comforting. But there can be many other changes we don't understand, and don't know how to measure. Probably some news media will paint it as "anti-science" or "misinformation" to be against bovaer. This needs to be clearly rejected.