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It may be practical to feed that beef algae instead of corn.
by presidentender 4y ago
It may be practical to feed that beef algae instead of corn.
- trimbo 4y agoRelated: Feeding Cattle Seaweed Reduces Their Greenhouse Gas Emissions 82 Percent https://caes.ucdavis.edu/news/feeding-cattle-seaweed-reduces-their-greenhouse-gas-emissions-82-percent https://caes.ucdavis.edu/news/feeding-cattle-seaweed-reduces...
- ck45 4y agoIt’s supposed to reduce cow farts. See e.g. https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/09/24/seaweed-to-cow-feed-why-is-sweden-building-the-world-s-largest-algae-factory https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/09/24/seaweed-to-cow-fee...
- pvaldes 4y agoWe had explained yet here why this point of view is incomplete and wrong. If you provide antibiotics to a cow they probably will fart less, but also will grow poorly and will not produce good milk. Cows need their gut bacteria to liberate the nutrients in their food and remain healthy. Many macroalgae have antibiotics as chemical defenses so feeding cows with it is the same as feeding cows antibiotics. Its ability to eat cellulose will be destroyed. Even worse, this algae they evolved to use chemical defenses, so they grow slowly and only in a narrow ring around the continents. If some thing grows slowly, to harvest it at large amounts will destroy the resource in no time. Is a totally non-scalable plan. Feeding cows with Chondrus is a false solution. If we try this path I predict that we will soon hit a dead end. Feeding cows with Spirulina would fall into a different situation and maybe could work (but Spirulina is contaminated and spoiled easily).
- Gordonjcp 4y agoDon't feed cows corn, feed cows grass.
- nemo44x 4y agoDepends what you want to do with the meat. Corn fed beef is superior for certain applications like BBQ.
- Gordonjcp 4y agoCorn-fed beef is bland and greasy. Next you'll be telling me that Aberdeen-Angus beef is good...
- nemo44x 4y agoI mean, every top ranked bbq joint in Texas uses it. Sone of the better BBQ restaurants in the UK import it. Aaron Franklin has gone on about why and it’s because of the long cook times. BBQ is smoked and seasoned so I’m not sure the bland opinion matters.
- Gordonjcp 4y ago> every top ranked bbq joint in Texas uses it Uh-huh. So bland, greasy meat slathered in cheap hot sauce?
- wrycoder 4y agoIt's a matter of taste. I find much grass-fed beef to be dry and tough. Speaking as someone who has actually raised grass-fed beef.