If you’ve ever wondered what happens when governments treat farms like laboratory test tubes for climate policy, Denmark just delivered the answer: sick cows, furious farmers, and a parade of bureaucrats insisting everything is going exactly as planned.
Denmark wanted to cut agricultural methane – because apparently cow farts are now a planetary emergency – so the government required many dairy farms to feed their animals Bovaer, a methane-inhibiting additive whose active ingredient is the charmingly named 3-nitrooxypropanol. Nothing says “sustainable agriculture” like forcing livestock to ingest a synthetic compound designed to mess with their digestive enzymes.
How quickly these fanatics have forgotten the lesson of the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) crisis (mad cow disease) in the UK. Cattle were fed meat-and-bone meal made from the remains of other animals, leading to the slaughter of millions of cattle to stop transmission to humans. Over 170 deaths in the UK have been attributed to vCJD (variant Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease), a rare but fatal brain disorder. The lesson was clear: mess with nature at your peril.
In the UK, 30 Arla farms were used as guinea pigs to evaluate the Bovaer feed additive’s effectiveness in reducing methane emissions from dairy cows. The trial has now concluded, and Arla Foods is reviewing the results before deciding on future use. Milk and dairy products from these farms were incorporated into the food chain. I stopped buying dairy products from Arla farms.
You’d think politicians might have asked farmers first (or their end customers). But no – climate policy waits for no one, especially not the people who actually work with animals. And so we ended up with the ‘unexpected’ results everyone totally expected.
In Denmark, as soon as the rollout hit real farms – not corporate test barns or government brochures – the reports started stacking up: Fever, diarrhoea and collapsing cows with reproduction problems. The results also showed that milk production dropped, which is a disaster, considering the whole point of dairy farming is milk. One farm reported a 20% drop just two days after stopping Bovaer.
Bovaer was sold as a clever way to tinker with a cow’s digestive system to lower methane burps. Politicians cheered, environmental groups nodded approvingly, and bureaucrats wrote the rules.
What no one seemed particularly interested in was a simple question: What happens when you force thousands of real farmers to dose thousands of real cows with a novel chemical every day?
As soon as widespread use began, Danish farmers started raising the alarm:
Cows developing fever and diarrhoea
Reproduction problems
Sudden collapses, and even deaths
Drops in milk production
Spikes in somatic cell counts indicating udder health issues
Higher rates of digital dermatitis
Reports of rumen dysfunction – exactly the opposite of “healthy digestion”
DSM-Firmenich, the company selling Bovaer, insists that their controlled trials didn’t show these issues. Of course, in trials, cows live in pristine, tightly controlled conditions – nothing like the messy, complex world of real farms. But don’t worry – bureaucrats suggested farmers might be “administering it incorrectly.” Always comforting when the official line is that farmers don’t know how to feed cows.
Meanwhile, the Danish Dairy Board is receiving a rising number of complaints, while Norwegian dairy companies have suspended Bovaer entirely “as a precaution.”
If this were a trial on a new drug for humans, the headlines would scream “HALT THE TRIAL.” But because it’s climate policy, the narrative becomes “stay calm, stay compliant, and keep administering the chemical.”
The Soil Association has stated that milk from dairy cows fed Bovaer would not be regarded as organic. To the climate change fanatics, emissions targets matter more than animal or human welfare. To the National Socialist, the laws of Nature and politics go hand-in-hand.
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