{"id":299948,"date":"2024-12-07T06:16:04","date_gmt":"2024-12-07T06:16:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=299948"},"modified":"2024-12-08T08:02:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-08T08:02:53","slug":"bovaer-trialare-we-being-played","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=299948","title":{"rendered":"Bovaer Trial\u2026are we being played?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kit Knightly \u2013 The Unz Review Dec 4, 2024<\/strong><\/h1>\n

We published an article last week on \u201cBovaer\u201d<\/a>, the chemical compound, currently being trialled in the UK, which is added to cow feed to reduce methane emissions (allegedly).<\/p>\n

Since then the story has grown, and I just wanted to do a quick update and ask a question that\u2019s nagging at me, but we\u2019ll get to that.<\/p>\n

Firstly the good news \u2013 the widespread disgust. People all over the country have objected to the \u201clow emission\u201d drug, leading to boycotts of the dairy giant Arla and their associated brands.<\/p>\n

Social media users are posting pictures of stacked shelves of unsold Lurpak butter and Cravendale milk.<\/p>\n

Smaller farms and organic dairy producers have jumped on the chance for good publicity and released statements declaring themselves \u201cBovaer free\u201d (Some people have made lists<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Some are even taking potshots and Bill Gates<\/a>, which is always fun.<\/p>\n

The BBC has turned Marianna Spring loose to do a fact-check<\/a>, and \u201cexperts\u201d have reassured her that Bovaer is safe\u2026which was pretty much always going to happen.<\/p>\n

A stranger development can be found in The Daily Mail, which has run a few stories on this issue, including publishing a full list<\/a> of all the products Arla is involved with to enable boycotts.<\/p>\n

Why would they do that? Appeasing their audience? Hopping on the bandwagon?<\/p>\n

Perhaps.<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s more. The story isn\u2019t actually new, Bovaer was approved by the UK government back in December of 2023<\/a> and was already being trialled by Marks & Spencer in April of this year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

So why the big fuss now, a year later?<\/p>\n

Two months before Bovaer was approved, last October, the UK Department for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) released a statement<\/a> backing methane-reducing animal feeds, and laying out plans to \u201cincentivize\u201d their use or even make them mandatory by 2030 [emphasis added]:<\/p>\n

Defra considers that methane suppressing feed products are an essential tool to decarbonise the agricultural sector. We are committed to working with industry to stimulate the market and encourage uptake of these products.<\/p>\n

In England, we plan to incentivise the uptake of high efficacy products<\/strong> with proven safety once suitable products enter the market (expected to be from 2025). We will work closely with industry to explore the best approach to introduce incentives, which could, for instance, include advice, guidance and support for the development and use of products on farms through our farming schemes such as through the Farming Innovation Programme, the Animal Health and Welfare Pathway, our Environmental Land Management schemes, or a new bespoke scheme.<\/p>\n

Our ambition remains to<\/strong> develop a mature market and mandate the use of safe and effective products<\/strong> in suitable cattle systems in England as soon as feasible and at the very latest by 2030.<\/p>\n

And now a little itch is asking questions at the back of my mind.<\/p>\n

Is it possible this whole story was deliberately cultivated to gauge people\u2019s reaction to the planned nationwide roll-out in the future?<\/p>\n

Or could it be even subtler than that?<\/p>\n

After all, if you wanted to discourage people from eating dairy products and red meat, then advertising the fact you\u2019ve put potentially toxic additives in the cows\u2019 food wouldn\u2019t be a bad strategy, would it?<\/p>\n

Just an idea.<\/p>\n

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If Klaus Schwab has his way no one will be eating meat, fish, fine cheese or eggs by 2030, apart from a select few, of course. Kit Knightly wonders if he\u2019s come a across a subtle strategy to wean us off animal proteins?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":258032,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[61,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-299948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Commentary","category-Health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=299948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":299949,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/299948\/revisions\/299949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/258032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=299948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=299948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=299948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}