Dairy Cow Feed Additive Trials - statement from Soil Association

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In case anybody is wondering about how safe the Uk milk chain is, following the past few days news about the Bovaer dairy feed trials and Arla milk/products, the Soil Association has made this statement…

‘This week, Arla Foods UK announced a trial on 30 farms for the use of Bovaer®, a feed additive aimed at reducing methane emissions from cows. news.arlafoods.co.uk/news/major-ret…

This has led us to receive a large number of questions about whether this feed additive would be permitted in organic. It would not.

Soil Association organic standards stipulate that all ingredients/components of a feed additive must be actively approved for use and be deemed safe and nutritionally useful for the animal. The main components that make up Bovaer® are not included in the list of approved products/compounds and as a result, Bovaer® would not be permitted under organic standards and for use in organic farming.

Arla buys milk from many different farms and they supply both organic and non-organic milk. Any organic milk they supply must meet organic regulation requirements and the production has to be completely separate from any non-organic milk. This must be demonstrated and independently audited every year.’

I emailed cathedral this is what they said Our Cathedral City cheese is made using milk from local farms who supply exclusively to us. At present our farms are not using Bovaer but it has been approved for use in the UK by the regulatory authorities and therefore deemed safe.

Because, it’s a load of crap.
Saw this on X today - thought it was brilliant!

Have you watched the documentary yet that I linked?

Yes or no?
If ‘no’, perhaps don’t be so quick to judge people who are simply questioning the science.
The cognitive dissonance works both ways.

Thanks so much for posting this @jollygreenpea .
I don’t think people realise just how rigid organic farming has to be.

That’s true and also was seeing posts on X saying how the iodine in sea kelp obviously isn’t good for people with thyroid issues.

Just let the cows eat grass and burp and fart is what I think! 😉

Deriding low emission zones isn’t what I was doing. I just see the worrying outcomes of closed off roads and costs of zoning effecting local businesses and things like emergency vehicles not being able to reach dying patients.

Check out how often the royal family, slebs and elites travel using high carbon transport- they’re the people telling us not to fly, recycle, don’t drive - share your neighbours car etc. What a load of hypocrisy!

A farmer/rancher friend in Miniosota, sent me a message yesterday saying Canada had been using Bovaer for a year. He had never heard of it himself until yesterday when I messaged him but he went away and asked around friends.

He thinks it’s a total joke and totally unnecessary.

It’s not the cows that polluted the oceans.
While methane from cow farts contributes to environmental concerns, humans are the mostly to blame.
How about cleaning up polluted oceans first?
How about reducing traffic? How about investing in local businesses? The list goes on. But I suppose there’s no one’s pocketing being lined if we focus on these issues.
Cows in the UK are not the reason for the global climate issues. I doubt their fart reduction will make a dent on climate change.

That’s why farmers cut grass for easily digested silage to feed to beasts throughout the winter.

Exactly!

Never trusted the UK dairy industry since the Mad Cow Disease scandal.

Does anyone know where we can look up who the dairy suppliers are? I have Tesco milk with code PR 014 and can’t find out where it is sourced from?

A quick google says that covid was good for the environment, yet the cows didn't suddenly stop farting then.

What stopped was transport.

All the hypocritical slebs need to stay home, rather than flying round in private jets, to lecture people that may never have been on a plane, or have one flight a year, to stop flying.

Poor cows, not even allowed the luxury of being left alone to fart away to their hearts content in peace.

I'm so sick of all this messing around with our farming and our produce. It's like some weird sinister plot to drive us all to veganism.

Absolutely, a Met Office article on how lockdown produced lower pollution levels didn’t mention anything about cow farts.
The cow’s weren’t in quarantine with the us.
Cows are not the problem, humans are.

https://www.whereismymilkfrom.com/finding-my-code/

There is a specific code on the milk apparently, it does say where it will be.

Im going to try it later

Excellent points!

Does anyone know where the code is on Asda milk?

My bottle of Asda’s own brand milk has the Arla Logo on it. (Very small, never noticed it before.
I tried the code thing and it didn’t work, might be a US site.

Hi all just nother update freshways milk doesn't contain bovaer so iv found a milk il be using from now on

Great that organic milk not contaminated. Interested to see that Sainsbury's dropped Arla as supplier of their own brand milk in February. Muller supplies Sainsbury's milk now.

www.grocerygazette.co.uk/2023/04/21/sainsburys-ends-supply-arla/

Hi all onken have contacted ne saying We have contacted all of the co-manufacturers of our Emmi brands including Onken, Emmi CAFFE LATTE, Bettine and our Swiss cheeses and are assured none of the farms in our supply chain are included in any of the Arla Bovaer trials.

Kind Regards,
Ash @ your Onken team

Muller has bovaer init

Uddermilk, surely

So they're not. 'slebs' reducing their flying would do fuck all to reduce carbon emissions. The food industry has massively more to do with it.