cows

Never mind Donald Tump and climate change this article points to a different type of “trump” as the answer. It tells us:

Could seaweed eating supercows help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and save the world from climate change?

Irish farmers hope so and have welcomed the opportunity to investigate a 2016 study that claims feeding cows small amounts of seaweed along with their normal diet of grass can reduce methane emissions by up to 99 per cent.

The study, by a team of researchers at James Cook University in Queensland, Australia, found in live trials with sheep that recorded methane levels fell between 50 – 70 per cent when they ate a diet including 2 per cent seaweed.

According to the Irish Times, the Irish Farmers’ Association has welcomed the study and said the research provides the opportunity to continue to build on Ireland’s “sustainable grass-based model of food production”.