Wind of change on farms as cows help to save the Earth

I'm wondering if this story is sponsored by the British Beef Council or some other sinister organisation.  Let's just put the cows into a big shed so they can eat lots of modified food that is completely unnatural.... totally unlike any of the photos in this story!!

Livestock (cows, sheep etc etc) contribute immensely to greenhouse gas emissions, especially on a per capita basis.  A better solution is for people to cut down on their meat consumption and let the cows live a natural life in the fields... as they have in the past.

Good stuff, we are  facing this climatic change only because we humans played with the nature, we always tried to control it but in vain, and th,is new way of feeding cows, so they can control there CH4 emission is completly baseless.can we stop paddy cultivation it is the biggest cotributor of CH4 as GHG.SO SIMPLY STOP PLAYING WITH NATURE, IT WILL SHOW THE PATH.

This pic was taken in a small village called Ängesbyn a few miles outside a small town called Luleå, in the very north of Sweden.

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I support anything that will help this world to stay around longer for my children, my children's children, etc. etc.  At a younger age the majority of people just take everything for granted and don't think of what will happen in the future.  At my age you seriously wonder when you hear all the bad things that are going on daily, if the world will last long enough for our children and their families.  So I support anything that will help the earth to survive for years and years and years to come.

Interesting story... I think so long as the cow's nutritional requirements are still being met and it causes the cows no digestive discomfort and has no adverse side effects, it seems like a good idea. In fact, if it's reducing the cows' gas, perhaps it will make them more comfortable? (Similar to how certain people take "Beano" and the like...)

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Maybe we humans should try it too!

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This little bull is enjoying his life on the Snug Valley Farm in East Hartwick, VT. He is raised mostly outdoors exclusively on the farm's own grass and hay from the rolling green hills of their 150-acre farm. They raise 75 Holstein steers on the farm every year, which is plenty of space for them to roam.

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This photo was taken at a farm in Northern Virgina.

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i took this on a cattle farm in cornwall, england.

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Photo Credit: Melissa Ann Hart

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This cow's from my family's farm.  They raise the cows the same way our ancestors have.    Having to modify feed this way adds another level of complexity that small family farms cannot sustain.

I do not  believe that family farms contribute to the degradation of the Earth...  But those big commercial feed lots?  yikes.

Our cows are fed 12% protein feed and hay plus they have natural grass available to them to graze. We notice very little, if any "belching" which as the article states, is where the problem lies.

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Visiting with a five day old calf at Sprout Creek Farm in Poughkeepsie, NY. The farm is a creamery and educational farm run by nuns. All the cows are grass-fed and humanely treated. This calf had the nickname Froggy because he had a very long tongue and was always trying to find food with it.

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I appreciate being asked to share one of my cow photos from my family farm in relation to this story. Photo Credit: Jerod Crump www.flickr.com/crumpj

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I love the idea of reducing greenhouse gases. I grew up on a dairy farm and my only concern is the welfare of the animal. Straw has no nutritional value. I would be interested to know what kind of supplements they are using in this feed. With all of the vitamins, medicinal products and everything else going into our milk and meat already, it worries me to know that now we are going so far as to try and make cows, not be cows. I would like to see a long-term study done on these animals, before their products are put onto the shelves.

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I'm going to have to agree with gnome on this one.

Of course the beef/dairy industry is behind this!

The single most important thing an individual can do to reduce greenhouse gases is to adopt a veg diet..plain and simple.

thanks for using my photos in this very interesting story.  i had no idea that it was the belching and not the flatulence that was causing the methane... so now i know which end of a cow not to stand near-- it's the front end!  hahaha!

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I always thought the best diet for a cow was just grass, so this seems a little odd, but if people think it will work then it's worth a try.

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Photo was taken on Perry Rd, Bethel, NY on Yasgur's Farm; the site of the Original 1969 Woodstock Festival. I asked the cows about it, but they said they couldn't remember a thing. Then the bull came over.

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Calfs affected by drought in Mburucuyá National Park (Argentina).
Terneros afectados por la sequía en el Parque Nacional Mburucuyá (Corrientes - Argentina).
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This photo was taken at Tanner Bros Farm in Warminster, Pennsylvania. Out of the many cows there, this one seemed the friendliest and even .posed for a few pictures

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This photograph is actually vertical. I really don't know why it loaded horizontal. None the less, I like the photograph because the cow is looking straight on as if it was posing for the shot.

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I love taking pictures of all kinds of animals and Nature...This on as I was walking through the PNE in Vancouver Canada with my mother when I seen the cows I just had to take a picture..There were so many differant Farm animals.

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I also think the idea is awful and agree with Gnome.  Introduce this feeding regime and dairy herds wil end up in sheds like battery hens.  And what of the open fields once roamed and munched by cows?  Build more crap housing estates?