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If you have browsers/grazers this is a nightmare. A lot of mis-information on the internet. Even more unknowns. You can't even assume if it doesn't kill one s
by aaron695 4y ago
If you have browsers/grazers this is a nightmare.
A lot of mis-information on the internet. Even more unknowns.
You can't even assume if it doesn't kill one species it won't kill another. Sometimes it's age of leaves. If they are for meat, something's won't matter short term, but are bad long term for pets.
What's interesting is you can sup up cows with a rumen bacterium Leucaena inoculum which has skyrocketed productivity on some places. This goes from harmful to productive
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wj14UNTKpo https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wj14UNTKpo
It's not the only rumen bacterium that works either, there is Fibrolytic rumen but you can't buy it yet, you just mix camels with cattle so they share it at drinking locations.
I think this would be interesting to hack in humans. It'd be nice to eat grass occasionally.
- nielsbot 4y agoWouldn't you need a rumen to make it work tho? Maybe you could make some kind of bioreactor and eat from that... Appetizing!
- maxerickson 4y agoHistorically, humans have used cattle (and other ruminants) to digest cellulose.
- eru 4y agoMushrooms also work, don't they?
- aaron695 4y agoIt's thought we can digest some cellulose already. And there's no reason to not think we couldn't increase that. For the general population digesting more fibre would bad, but to be able to eat leaves and grass for a while would be interesting. Humans have intestinal bacteria that degrade the plant cell walls in herbivores https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661373/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8661373/