All ‘suitable’ UK cattle will be given methane-reducing bovoire or bovoire-like products by law by 2030, under controversial government plans.
A Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) document detailing plans to mandate the use of ‘methane-suppressing feed products’ in English cattle has sparked concern on social media – due to allegations that the substance could seep into milk and cause health problems.
This comes after angry Britons vowed to boycott more than anything else. A dozen Dairy manufacturers, including Lurpak, have been ‘contaminated’ with an additive linked to cancer due to fears.
However, the Food Standards Agency (FSA) says on its website: The FSA’s safety assessment concluded that Bovaire poses no safety risk when used in the correct dosage. It does not cause cancer (it is not carcinogenic or genotoxic and poses no safety risk to consumers, animals or the environment).
Consumers focused first on milk and butter made by Danish company Arla after the company announced the start of a trial that will see Bovaire fed to its cows.
Bovair is a nutritional supplement for cattle that, when added to their feed, helps reduce the amount of methane they produce during digestion. Climate change.
It has been declared a safe additive by both European and UK regulators as it does not enter milk.
They have experts He also told MailOnline. Customers have nothing to worry about and their concerns about cancer risks are unfounded.
All UK cattle will be fed Bovaer or Bovaer-like products by law by 2030 under controversial government plans. Stock image
A document is being circulated on social media which mentions that the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) plans to use ‘methane-suppressing food products’.
However, social media is full of potential leads. Fertility issues and Cancer.
The row could now spill over into the wider farming industry, with the government planning to legislate the use of Bovaire-like products on UK farms ‘as soon as possible and no later than 2030’.
This commitment was made last year by the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in a statement issued by the Conservative government led by the former Prime Minister. Rishi Sunak.
Then the Minister of Agriculture Mark Spencer He said at the time: ‘We will continue to work closely with industry to develop a mature market and push for safe and effective methane sequestering feed products to be used in suitable livestock systems in the UK.
Britain’s pledge to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050 is a goal the current Labor government has also pledged as part of its plan.
When DEFRA discusses the use of such additives in the dairy and beef industry, it describes methane in food products as ‘an important tool for decarbonising the agricultural sector’.
Furore over Bovaer has called on social media users to share a list of products and supermarkets stocking Arla products and for people to avoid them.
In one Tik Tok video that has been viewed thousands of times, a user spills Arla’s milk from the sink and says, ‘Arla is not in my house.’
This is included Lurpak and Anker Butter – both produced by the company – and Tesco And Asda which stocks its own brand of milk supplied by Arla.
The viral list shared on X and Facebook warns customers against buying Arla and its sub-brands Arla Cravendale, Arla BOB, Arla Protein and Arla Lactofree.
Artisanal cheese brand Castello, Apetina – which sells white cheese and paneer – and Arla Organic are others blacklisted.
It also alerts consumers to brands partnered with Arla Foods, including Starbucks, McDonald’s and Ecomilk.
Arla says it produces ready-to-eat iced coffee drinks for Starbucks, as well as milk products for McDonald’s.
Almost all major supermarkets have also been attacked by shoppers and are included in the list.
They say this is because Arla Foods produces products such as milk and cheese for its own brands such as Asda. Other supermarkets stock Arla food products.
Since the list began circulating, many Britons have taken to it. Tiktok To share clips of themselves pouring milk products down the toilet and throwing them in the trash.
TikTokers have shared videos of themselves throwing food products in the trash.
One man pictured himself with Arla products, telling followers they would ‘go straight down the drain’.
In one video, which has been viewed more than 1.6 million times, a man points to a bottle of Asda semi-skimmed milk that bears the label ‘sourced from Arla Farms’.
He added: “This is going straight down the drain and I will never buy Asda milk again.”
Bovaire is a compound made from silicon dioxide, propylene glycol, and the organic compound 3-nitrooxypropanol, which is shortened to 3-NOP.
Concerns circulating online about the supplement mostly refer to documents from regulators about industrial levels of the substance.
In the US, one of the Federal Drug Administration (FDA) states that the product is not for human use.
He adds: ‘Care should be taken when handling this product. 3-nitrooxypropanol can harm the male reproductive system, can be harmful if inhaled, and is a skin and eye irritant.’
He then recommends that those handling it wear protective equipment such as eye and mouth masks and gloves.
It claims to bring a cancer center that has been evaluated in safety studies on rats and by the UK regulator the Food Standards Agency.
In one Tik Tok video, a user with more than 4,000 followers pours milk from a cardboard box down the drain.
Another Tik Tok video posted yesterday captured a woman emptying her Arla bottle before taking it to the toilet.
The results indicated that feeding high doses of the product to rats increased the risk of cancer in female rats.
However, in the follow-up analysis, the levels of the disease were not statistically higher than the control group.
Bouvier manufacturer Dism-Firmenich said the social media storm had led to ‘mistrust and misinformation’ about the food.
In a statement, they assured the public that, if ‘used as recommended’, Bovaire would ‘never enter milk and reach consumers’.
Furthermore, the additive is ‘specially formulated to break down in the cow’s digestive system and quickly into the natural compounds found in the cow’s rumen,’ adds the Dutch Swiss international.
Bouvier’s product safety sheet advises people to wear masks and gloves when handling the supplement to avoid risks from ‘small dust particles’.
But this is a ‘standard sheet’ designed for in-process workers, Dsm-firmenich pointed out.
This ‘ensures safe use’ and ‘such procedures are very common for consumption’.
Great Yarmouth’s Reform MP Rupert Lowe joined the debate this afternoon to boycott the products.
A spokesperson for the UK’s Food Standards Agency told MailOnline: ‘Feeds used to reduce methane emissions are fed to bouvaires and are safe to drink from cow’s milk.
‘Bovaer has undergone rigorous safety assessments and is approved for use in Great Britain.’
The claim that the product is related to Bill Gates has also confused some social media users and created a storm.
of Microsoft Co-founder As early as 2023, it has invested 8 million in Rumin to develop similar methane-reducing supplements.
Conspiracy theorists have falsely linked the two organizations without evidence.
Responding to the claims, an Arla spokesperson said: “The information circulating online about our relationship with Bill Gates is completely false and the information about his involvement in our products is incorrect.”
He added: “The health and safety of both consumers and animals is always our top priority.
Bovair has already been used widely and safely throughout Europe, and since it does not enter the milk from the cow at any time during the experiment, it has no effect on the milk we produce.
‘Regulatory bodies such as the European Food Safety Authority (FSA) and the FSA approve it based on evidence that it does not harm animals or adversely affect their health, productivity and milk quality.’
A Bower spokesman added: ‘This was developed in response to the need to reduce methane emissions.
The cow metabolizes it as an additional food – this means it is not in the milk.
It has been tested for many years in many countries; It is completely safe and approved by regulators in Britain, America and many other countries.
‘There is no justification for the spread and amplification of this fake news. We are scientists, we work on facts and we will never sell an unsafe product.
We are grateful to the independent, third-party experts, farmers and farmers’ organizations who have stepped up to counter this misinformation.’
