The Highwire with Del Bigtree - UDDER MADNESS: COW FEED ADDITIVE LINKED TO STERILIZATION

Episode Date: December 11, 2024

The battle to limit carbon emissions has reached a new level with Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos backing startups developing new vaccines to curb cow farts and burps. See new findings in a recent study out of California on greenhouse emissions from bovine flatulence and why the UK is boycotting certain brands of dairy in the UK where the cows are fed a controversial drug.Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/the-highwire-with-del-bigtree--3620606/support.

Another big hurdle here is something people used to be called misinfo and disinfo agents for questioning the net zero push, questioning the settled science around climate change. And why were people questioned that? Well, maybe they were watching Bill Nye in the late 90s and they were believing him. Remember the science guy? Check this out. All right. This is a model of a carbon atom. And you say, what's a big deal?

What's the big deal? It's carbon. Okay, carbon is everywhere. The trees? Carbon's in the trees. Carbon's in the grass. Carbon is in you and me. Carbon's in the cows. Carbon's in that bull over there. Carbon is in the horses. Carbon is all over the place. Carbon's even in the air. Carbon is what makes life go. Go, go, go. Carbon makes the chemicals of living things. Carbon is so important. Are you listening to me? We've named a whole branch of chemistry after carbon. Organic chemistry. Organism? Organic. Are you with you? me, organism, organic, okay? It's vital. It's important. That's why, I mean, don't say,

what's the big deal about carbon? Carbon is the key to life. You have got, got to respect that. Maybe that is why I'm having such a hard time believing all this anti-carbon net zero stuff. I mean, he's pretty convincing there to all those kids. Yeah, carbon sounds pretty great. And, well, when you turn the TV on nowadays, Bill Nye's message kind of, fell to the wayside and there's another dominant message and it looks like this.

All right. Climate change is real and it is a challenge. Virtually every nation in the world, almost 200 countries agreed to phase out carbon emissions, net bases totally in the second half of this century and to set their ambitions to do it quicker and to do it more forcefully. One thing you said you were particularly surprised. by was how great a problem bovine flatulence is. Do you want to explain what that is and why it's a problem?

Yeah, so the animals that can eat grass have very unusual stomachs that have these bacteria that are metanogenic in there and so they leak natural gas both out the front and the back. I asked the top scientists in there several times, do we really have to get down to near zero? Can't we just cut it in half or a quarter? And the answer is that until we get near to zero, the temperature will continue to rise. We've got to start, human activities, by the way,

are the primary cause of carbon emissions, we're told. So to take Al Gore there, we need to stamp out human activities. And not a doctor, Bill Gates, just found out that there's these animals walking around that have gas coming out of both sides, he says, very scientific terms. It's a problem for him. But you have, you know, the government's taking this very seriously because you have the Biden administration. This was a headline just a couple of years ago. Biden signed order for government to achieve net zero emissions by 2050.

So that means no more carbon, everybody. And in the UK, they're trying to, we've been reporting on this now over the last couple of weeks. There's an inheritance tax on farms. So the UK has been having basically a full frontal assault on their farmers. In 2022, they tried to just give them lump sums to get out of farming. But now they're doing an inheritance tax to try to get those when the farmers pass away so they can't really, you know, it's a hardship to pass it on. But you see some of the headlines here out of the Guardian. This is how the reporting looks. Farmers have hoarded land for too long. Inheritance

tax will bring new life to rural Britain. Okay. Well, I'd maybe believe that if the C40 cities, which is an initiative that is trying to get net zero by 2030 and all the governors and mayors of a lot of cities and even here in the United States have signed onto this pledge, the C40 cities talking about the future of urban consumption. When they tell me, in their chart that an ambitious target for 2030 looks like this, zero kilograms of meat consumption and zero kilograms of dairy consumption, you know something's brewing. They don't want livestock, they don't want cows, and they don't want you eating dairy or meat. So that brings us to the question of livestock and cows. Bill Gates has invested almost $27 million in a startup

for, as he said, a vaccine now to stop cow farts and burps. And that's through his investment fun. Now, Jeff Bezos, also following line with that because it looks like there's big money to be made here. Jeff Bezos backs development of fart vaccines for cows to help save planet. Well, we get into, so those are maybe someday maybe. Imagine when those start guys start competing with each other, like the fart vaccine wars? No, my product's better. Less farce, definitely. Well, it's already happening now. So in the UK, there is a product called Beauvais, and it's a feed additive. And it's supposed to reduce the methane emissions of livestock's dairy cows that are eating this. When you put it into their feed, they're supposed to have less methane that they expel out of both ends from Bill Gates.

So the supermarkets out there, like Arla, they're partnering to test this methane-busting feed additive. So the headline says for dairy cows. So Arla is doing that in their dairy field for the cows. And then it puts that in their milk. It gets on their shelves in the supermarket. Well, the same thing, I should say, is happening over here in the United States. The FDA has approved the same feed supplement in May of this year. So this is the approval headline here.

It proves first feed supplement to reduce methane in dairy cows. How did this all happen? Because, I mean, we have to, even if you believe this is true, why dairy cows? It seems like there's a lot other things you can tackle before wanting to stop what's coming out of the front and back of livestock that have probably been on this. planet to the degree that they've always have. Well, a 2006 United Nations report is where this all started. It's called live stocks long shadow.

And it says this in this report. Here to livestock's contribution is enormous. It currently amounts to about 18% of the global warming effect and even larger contribution than the transportation sector worldwide. 18% larger than the transportation sector. So a bunch of cows and livestock are out there. all of the cars and transportation in the entire world can't compete with what's coming out of their front and their back. Well, a lot of people are scratching their heads. There was a UC Davis

researcher, Frank Mittler, and he actually did a paper. He said, I'm going to do a paper with some co-authors on that, because I'm not sure I believe that. Sounds kind of crazy. So livestock's contribution to climate change. He writes, the impact of livestock on climate change in the United States in California have arrived at much different greenhouse gas emissions estimates associated with direct livestock emissions, enteric fermentation and manure, totaling at less than 3% of total anthropogenic global warming, and much smaller indirect emissions compared to the global assessment that was by the UN. And so he puts this out here. And one of the main authors of that 2006 UN report in the BBC had to say this. He said, one of the authors of this livestock

long stout says, I must say honestly that he has a point. We factored in everything. for meat emissions and we didn't do the same thing with transport. We just used the figure from the IPCC, he said. That's bombshell. So basically what this author is saying is we factored in everything for livestock, transportation to the field, from the field, to the processing plant, all the fertilizer, all the manure, the cost of clearing all the land of the trees to make the grass they graze on every single thing. And for transportation, it's like, well, it's just maybe a little bit that comes out the tailpipe. Let's check that out. So totally unfair calculation that was thrown on the backs of livestock. And this is the equation, basically, that created these methane busting feed additives

and cow fart vaccines. That's the whole rationale behind this is to cut that out. So let's look. Let's go into the science here. In 2024, the FDA approved this. That's in May. And we have their actual letter here. And let's see what they say in their letter. It says based on the information provided in your letter, Beauvoir 10 is an article other than food intended to affect the structure or any function of the body of an animal and therefore it is a drug. That's interesting because it's not considered a drug in the European Union in the UK, but it is by the FDA here. It goes on to say, based on a review of your data and the characteristics of your product, FDA has no questions at this time regarding whether Beauver 10 will achieve its attendant effect

and is expected to pose low risk to humans. So what's the way? What they did here is the company did some tests, gave the FDA their probably sanitized results and said, here, look, it's great, I promise. And the FDA says, that looks good to me. We don't expect that to cause any problems with humans. Stamp green light approval. That's how it worked. And this actual letter, if you start scrolling down a little bit, you see a warning sign.

What are they warning about? Not for human use. Caution should be exercised when handling this product, three nitroxyopropyl, may damage. male fertility and reproductive organs. Then it goes on to say it's harmful, inhaled, and skin irritant. But we have a study here. It was done in 2021 in Europe, and this was by the regulators. They wanted this data.

And you can see here as the safety and efficacy of this feed. And you go in here, and it's from rats. They looked at the rat model. And it said, in tissues, the highest concentration were found in the liver, kidney, adrenal glands. Concentrations were found in the fat, muscles, and brain. So, I mean, for our audience, think lipid nanoparticles. Remember, this is just like any other thing.

It's just like a food additive, but it finds bioaccumulates in all your organs. This is kind of what's going on here. And again, the muscle. This is what people are eating if they're eating the meat. And this is saying there's high concentrations in the muscle. We don't know what it does the humans. And so we go into this study. This is a gigantic study.

But let me just pull out a couple quotes in here. It says, based on the above, the feed app panel concludes. that the genotoxicity potential for three NOP cannot be ruled out, so they don't know what genotoxic effects it has. But let's go into fertility. It says all females at 500 milligrams per kilogram of body weight showed evidence of mating, but none of the females became pregnant. And no corporal lutea or implantation sites were found in any of these females. That seems like a problem. What about the men? A slight to severe decrease in spermatogenesis, that's the creation of sperm, that might be a problem, was observed in the testes of most males of the 300 milligrams

per kilogram body weight per day. Sperm motility was reduced in most of the males at that same number, accompanied by decreased total sperm counts in testes and epididamides. No evidence of recovery was observed after 13 weeks. Now, they're feeding them a little more than the cows would be fed or the livestock would be fed, but we don't know long-term bioaccumulation. We don't know these effects. So, What's happening now in the UK, predictably, you have a boycott. These people of the UK are boycotting the milk from the cows that were given this feed additive now. Here's the headlines, Tesco, Aldi, and Morrison's face boycott over a controversial ingredient and major dairy brand. And you can see these pictures here. People just, the shelves are just empty.

On one side is the good milk, if you will, the milk that hasn't been treated with anything that was controversial. on the other side is one that has been treated with this ingredient. So I want to say this. We have an example of this in the United States. In the early 2000s, Monsanto had an artificial growth hormone for cows, and that was found to be getting into the milk. And there was a lot of protests about this. And it was at that time, Walmart, the largest employer in the United States,

had took, said there's no more artificial growth hormone in our milk. That was a Reuters headline. And that was the death blow. At that point, Monsanto divested ownership. in the company of this growth hormone. And they were out of the business. So the people voted with their dollars. And I want to say this boycott in the UK has all the ingredients to really move forward fast

because on the shelves of every supermarket in every town is a vote, a vote against or for this top-down climate push in the form of milk. And every citizen now in the UK has a voice to make this choice heard at the companies and force them to listen because it has a voice. affects their bottom line. And this is what's happening right now. And what's interesting is the Walmart boycott was for an artificial growth hormone. So arguably, you could say there was actually a reason to have that because they would make the cows bigger. They would have more milk production and so on and so forth. It's good for business. It's questionable about this methane busting.

What benefit does that have to people? What benefit does it have to farmers? There's really no positive benefit here if you don't believe in this climate model. If you don't believe in the science, that 18% UN model that started this whole conversation. I mean, it's really amazing when you look at it. We just keep seeing, you know, it's really the Scott Gottlie method. Go ahead and just put it out to the public. We'll trust whatever the company says is safe, and then I'll go on and work for the company

and make millions of dollars down the road. That's what really needs to change in regulatory agencies. We've talked about Bonnie Hari, bringing real attention to the fruit loops and the dyes in our fruit loops that are illegal in other countries, as we know, are endocrine disruptors causing cancer. In this case, the way we keep seeing them just put new chemicals into our food, you know, things that, you know, could be reducing fertility. And even if it's just the animals, and once again, you know, we see Bill Gates

funding this. We also see Bill Gates talking about reducing CO2, but one of his biggest issues is reducing the population. Also, as you pointed out, saying getting down to zero meat. So it's fascinating that the people that are investing in a product to get cows to stop farting, that one of the side effects appears that it would be a reduction in fertility. And you have to imagine they saw that and said, hey, win, win. I mean, that's not a side effect for us. We don't want any beef anyway. So if they stop giving birth to other cows, then great. They're not farting. And there's fewer of them. Is this sort of mentality that needs to be kept in check as we move forward because we're messing with our food supply and to talk about farmers as hoarding land. This is where our food comes from

unless they have some other plan like coming from a factory. And I say no thanks to that. And this tax, it's something that the Biden administration was looking at. You're doing it all over Europe. To tax a farmer when, you know, to a family basically, when that farm gets handed down to the kids, I mean, how many, you know how hard it must be to get your children to want to stay and work on a farm these days. They probably want to go off and play in computers and do all sorts of other things, become lawyers. So even if you get them inspired to keep feeding the world, now you're going to hit them with a tax for the value of that property, which I can't imagine, you know, what is a farm if it's $5 million, $10 million, how long does it take you to net that much

profit to pay that back? I mean, you're just burying them in debt for no reason for serving humanity, the food that we eat. It's really evil. It's got to be stopped. And I'm just happy that a reporting is showing how many people are waking up to this, standing up against it, and we're really seeing movements in the political system. So great reporting, Jeffrey.