On Tuesday, French dairy company Danone announced plans to reduce methane emissions by 30 percent over the next seven years. The company believes it can accomplish this by adjusting the way its cows are cared for, milked, and otherwise worked with.
AFP reports that to reach its aim of attaining these reductions by the year 2030, Danone plans to pursue techniques such as adopting low-methane-emitting cow breeds, changing cow diets, lengthening milking periods, and collecting emissions from waste for use in biogas generation.
According to the article, the company is also considering out-of-the-box solutions to the problem of pollution, such as a cow mask that can soak up the gases produced by burping.
According to the organization’s spokesman Jeanette Coombs-Lanot, who spoke with AFP, the group “will explore how we can tighten standards generally on farms.”
Before the end of the decade, the company plans to reduce emissions by 30 percent compared to 2020 levels.
Students at Britain’s esteemed Royal College of Art (RCA) have devised a unique mask “aimed at combating global warming” for cows, so it makes sense to follow suit and keep them in the dark.
BBC reports that Prince Charles is behind this strategy.
Danon has made quality assurance a top concern because the milk used in their yogurt and other fresh dairy products originates directly from 58,000 farmers in 20 countries. To a considerable extent, the production of milk accounts for the company’s methane emissions.
Most recently, Danon has been researching cow masking to disrupt conventional farming practices around the world.
New Zealand’s left-leaning government has already stated its intent to tax cow flatulence to reduce emissions of methane and nitrous oxide.
The former head of the International Union of Socialist Youth and current Labour prime minister Jacinda Ardern instituted a “world first” fee on New Zealand’s six million cows and twenty-six million sheep earlier this year to combat climate change, as reported by Breitbart News.
New Zealand farmers are furious at Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern because they see her recent action as a threat to their ability to make a living.
Meat and dairy prices could go up even further if the British government follows through on rumors that it will try to impose carbon taxes on the food industry to combat hypothetical man-made climate change.
Secretary of State for Environment, Food, and Rural Affairs George Eustice has hinted that Britain may impose a carbon tax in 2027 in light of the European Union’s plan to withdraw its agricultural subsidy program.
To “push nations like Australia, like New Zealand to handle their greenhouse gas emissions,” as Eustice phrased it, border carbon levies may be established.