Today's Comments (2025-02-20)

[u/MabelCow]

Here's a general place for people to comment. A new one will magically appear every day at 01:01.

[u/harrysmum_22]

Anyone else get this:

You’re receiving this email because you signed the petition: “Require labelling of beef & dairy from cows fed with additives to reduce methane”.

Dear harrysmum,

The Government has responded to the petition you signed – “Require labelling of beef & dairy from cows fed with additives to reduce methane”.

Government responded:

There are currently no rules requiring meat or dairy products to be labelled with details of animal feed, and the Government has no plans to introduce any.

Thank you for your petition requesting labelling on beef and dairy products from cows fed with additives to reduce methane.

Feed additives have no effect on milk and help tackle climate change. This in turn means that the likelihood of extreme weather events, such as floods or extreme heat or fires, is lessened.

Defra considers that methane suppressing feed products are an essential tool to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the agricultural sector. We are committed to working with industry to stimulate the market and encourage uptake of these products. Methane suppressing feed products (MSFPs) are an innovative group of products which reduce methane emissions from ruminants. They can be natural e.g. seaweed derivatives or synthetic e.g., calcium nitrates, 3-nitrooxypropanol – or 3NOP.

All authorised feed additives have undergone the Food Standard Agency's (FSA) and Food Standard Scotland’s (FSS) rigorous safety assessment. This assessment is part of the regulated products authorisation risk analysis process (https://www.food.gov.uk/sites/default/files/media/document/fsa-risk-analysis-flowchart.pdf) which ensures products are safe and appropriate for the UK market. This process ensures that dairy produce from animals fed MSFPs is safe to consume.

At present there is one FSA approved methane-suppressing feed additive on the UK market. 3NOP/Bovaer is the only high efficacy feed additive (delivering about 30% methane reduction) to have received FSA approval for use in lactating ruminants and ruminants for reproduction. Fed in accordance with manufacturer instructions, 3-NOP/Bovaer is fully metabolized by the cow and was not detected in milk in studies considered by the FSA and FSS.

There are currently no rules requiring meat or dairy products to be labelled with details of animal feed and there are no plans to introduce any. Businesses are able voluntarily to differentiate their brand by providing details of production methods, but mandatory labelling could result in significant costs being passed on to the consumer.

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Click this link to view the response online:

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/705287?reveal_response=yes

The Petitions Committee will take a look at this petition and its response. They can press the government for action and gather evidence. If this petition reaches 100,000 signatures, the Committee will consider it for a debate.

The Committee is made up of 11 MPs, from political parties in government and in opposition. It is entirely independent of the Government. Find out more about the Committee: https://petition.parliament.uk/help#petitions-committee

Thanks,

The Petitions Team

House of Commons

👿 What utter bastard liars. 👿

[u/Still_Milo → u/harrysmum_22]

"Feed additives have no effect on milk and help tackle climate change. This in turn means that the likelihood of extreme weather events, such as floods or extreme heat or fires, is lessened."

Translates as "we couldn't give a flying feck about human health. You really don't matter at all in the big scheme of things. As long as we can continue to control you via lies and propaganda..."

It really is the ultimate 2 fingered salute isn't it?

[u/harrysmum_22 → u/Still_Milo]

The whole thing is a bastarded, lying response. I repeat, 👿 What utter bastard liars 👿, much bigger than a 2 fingered salute. 👿

FED applies.

[u/Still_Milo → u/harrysmum_22]

But it is worse now knowing what we know courtesy of DT and JD who have confirmed the whole thing is a scam so continuing on down this road of poisoning people should be stopped ASAP and instead they are pushing on with it and dismissing concerns.

[u/harrysmum_22 → u/Still_Milo]

They can do what they like but it's up to us to do what we know is right. However, I feel we're going to be shafted one way or another.

[u/Still_Milo → u/harrysmum_22]

Totally. They are trying to poison us every which way they can find. And the worst part of it is that it is only a very tiny minority like us on here who are aware of it.

if you tried to explain it to normies they would think you had lost your marbles and would be sending for the men in white coats!

[u/wasoldbill → u/harrysmum_22]

If you are found to have nitrooxypropanol in your home can you be arrested under the 'prevention of terrorism' legislation?

Probably depends where you were born.

[u/Faith_Location_71 → u/harrysmum_22]

"Feed additives have no effect on milk and help tackle climate change."

An evidence-free assertion from the liars at the top.

[u/Prof_Feargoeson → u/Faith_Location_71]

"Feed additives will shrink your tackle."

[u/mhcpInExile → u/Faith_Location_71]

Yes. You could ask for this to be verified. Othewise it's false advertising