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Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% by benj111 on Friday August 16, 2019 @03:49AM (#20712999)
If you put out are fire, where does the smoke go instead?

The methane was produced by a bacteria, it is never produced to go anywhere if you get rid of the bacteria. The trade off might be poorer digestive efficiency if the cow relies on this bacteria to break down some common molecule. Although it could just as easily be the case that the bacteria was introducing inefficiencies.

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Re:Tasty Seaweed Reduces Cows’ Methane Emissions by 99% by tripzilch on Friday August 16, 2019 @08:31AM (#20714467)
> The trade off might be poorer digestive efficiency if the cow relies on this bacteria to break down some common molecule.

We drifted a little, but the top-level comment of this same thread started out to suggest that if any, the effect might even be positive for the cow.

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