Bovaer Trial…are we being played?
Kit Knightly
We published an article last week on “Bovaer”, the chemical compound, currently being trialled in the UK, which is added to cow feed to reduce methane emissions (allegedly).
Since then the story has grown, and I just wanted to do a quick update and ask a question that’s nagging at me, but we’ll get to that.
Firstly the good news – the widespread disgust. People all over the country have objected to the “low emission” drug, leading to boycotts of the dairy giant Arla and their associated brands.
Social media users are posting pictures of stacked shelves of unsold Lurpak butter and Cravendale milk.
Smaller farms and organic dairy producers have jumped on the chance for good publicity and released statements declaring themselves “Bovaer free” (Some people have made lists)
Some are even taking potshots and Bill Gates, which is always fun.
The BBC has turned Marianna Spring loose to do a fact-check, and “experts” have reassured her that Bovaer is safe…which was pretty much always going to happen.
A stranger development can be found in The Daily Mail, which has run a few stories on this issue, including publishing a full list of all the products Arla is involved with to enable boycotts.
Why would they do that? Appeasing their audience? Hopping on the bandwagon?
Perhaps.
But there’s more. The story isn’t actually new, Bovaer was approved by the UK government back in December of 2023 and was already being trialled by Marks & Spencer in April of this year.
So why the big fuss now, a year later?
Two months before Bovaer was approved, last October, the UK Department for the Environment, Farming and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) released a statement backing methane-reducing animal feeds, and laying out plans to “incentivize” their use or even make them mandatory by 2030 [emphasis added]:
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.
In England, we plan to incentivise the uptake of high efficacy products 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.
Our ambition remains to develop a mature market and mandate the use of safe and effective products in suitable cattle systems in England as soon as feasible and at the very latest by 2030.
And now a little itch is asking questions at the back of my mind.
Is it possible this whole story was deliberately cultivated to gauge people’s reaction to the planned nationwide roll-out in the future?
Or could it be even subtler than that?
After all, if you wanted to discourage people from eating dairy products and red meat, then advertising the fact you’ve put potentially toxic additives in the cows’ food wouldn’t be a bad strategy, would it?
Just an idea.
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meant .. rBGH …
Remember BGH Free and how they took BGH growth hormone down?
We need to get our ahead of them with this Bovaer Free message.
All I can tell you Kit is that us in sub arctic walrus land have “allready had this debate”, As the Norwegian government is super invested in the whole agenda they decided to make the partialy state owned but definetly private dairy mafia “Tine” try to make what was called “fremtidsmelk” or “future milk” https://medlem.tine.no/aktuelt-fra-tine/tine-lanserer-fremtidsmelk–laget-for-a-kutte-klimagassutslipp , this future milk was not met with much enthusiasm and people started trying to figure out what “Bovaer” was, and oops it turned out to be mutagenic and possibly carcinogenic, so the “future milk” came and went as a huge flop, people didn’t belive in the mystery muh climate change narrative when it got too inconvenient and fucked up, and the sale of “Organic Røros diary products” went up exponentialy without any reduction in meat and dairy..
Now the “government”(aka the people that brought us smash hits as Gro-“pepsico and WHO” Brundtland and Bilderberger-Jens want to fine all the farmers who wont use “bovaer” (or 3-Nitrooxypropanol as it’s really called), but not until 2030 ofc, because “there is huge uncertainty around bovaer”(basicly they hope they can memory hole the whole affair and try to nag to get their will again)!
However now “right wing” MAM shill outlett document.no is reporting that “Tine” is going to mix it directly into their milk anyway, so who knows what to belive?
https://archive.is/G6XPs
Anyway Kit, they might be pulling a Kansas city shuffle as you suggested, but all it did here was make people livid and start buying other products, I realize my information isn’t all that usefull, but the UK is usualy “my window to the future” and for once I can provide you with a “window to the future” that works the other way, I hope this is helpful, and keep up the good work, I will be ordering my beanie shortly.
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Probably a part of it yes. As is the part of essentially forcing the smaller farms to require its use (& other methods) in order to meet government/corporate policy targets. There’s no doubt a large global framework is being built (including accounting standards) & rolled out that meets the UN’s SDG’s. Whilst I applaud small organic farms & co-ops resisting this, it is just one part of an ongoing war about small businesses (& humanity).
The publicity of BOVAER might turn off a small segment of the population from eating meat/dairy, but in my experience the majority will keep on buying & consuming it. Those who are awake & have the money are careful from whom they buy food from. Also consider inflation pressures in the west may cause more people to not be able to afford good quality meat/dairy even if they wanted to.