Bovaer And What It Tells Us About The World We Live In?
G'Day Folks,
You have probably heard by now about the latest biotechnology being added to cattle feed, both for beef and dairy production. If you haven’t, you have clearly disconnected yourself from the incessant stream of media pouring out of that little screen in your pocket. To no one's surprise but the companies using it, this new technology now being used to produce meat sold by Coles went viral not only here in Australia but also overseas.
Boaver is a synthetic feed additive designed to reduce methane emissions in cattle by altering their natural digestive processes. It works by blocking the enzyme responsible for producing methane (sounds harmless).
Now there are loads of people online (most of them without any real evidence) stating that this product is NOT SAFE FOR HUMAN CONSUMPTION. Truth is, we don’t bloody know, and we won’t know until enough animals and humans have died in such a way that we can link their deaths unequivocally with Bovaer.
Pesticides my father and grandfather were advised to use by local government agricultural officers are now banned, but at the time were deemed completely safe. The problem lies in the method in which we test new chemical compounds for safety. Firstly, the testing is usually funded by the company requesting approval to sell the new chemical. Secondly, the government agency verifying the test results have been found to have biased interests in supporting the company's evidence, such as they may eventually be employed on a much larger pay packet with this company in the future. Thirdly, if the rat they test the new chemical compound on doesn’t die prematurely and this can be observed in multiple lives, then it’s almost always deemed safe for animal and human consumption.
So what does the new approval of Bovaer tell us about the world we live in? Lab rats aren’t the only ones being used to test new technology. And with the rate of technology only just starting to speed up, the testing of new inventions will increase dramatically. As we reach the limits of our planet's ecosystems, the pressure to find the quickest and easiest solutions will continue to mount. It’s much harder and slower to graze cows on pasture and move them to a new field every day like the wild herds of ruminants have done for Millenia without heating up the planet. What’s easier, quicker and cheaper is Bovaer, with Bovaer we can now leave cows in feedlots to live their lives in a swelteringly hot prison yard full of their nose burning, eye watering excrement to eat cheap grain grown with countless pesticides and we can do all this whilst stopping that devil of a cow releasing its wicked planet destroying farts.
Comments
Thank you for taking the time to explain it in layman’s terminology, I only buy my meat and poultry from farms who refuse to use such products.
Kind Regards
Deb
Thank you for providing information bovaer, I’m getting to a point where I am sick of government and other who want to keep sticking shit in out food
Thank you for providing information bovaer, I’m getting to a point where I am sick of government and other who want to keep sticking shit in out food