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<blockquote data-quote="Cowgirl" data-source="post: 8623187" data-attributes="member: 3213"><p>Thanks Tim W - it’s interesting to hear that work is going on in sheep. The emphasis is always on cows but sheep are surely just as important. Those trying to counteract the “cows are bad” propaganda are unfortunately losing the media and political battle despite all our efforts and we are not being backed up strongly enough by those who ought to be supporting us. As someone who has always strongly believed that ruminants were designed to eat grass, not man made concentrates, and that animals should have a decent quality of life, it saddens me that the “less time on the planet” brigade are gaining traction in the debate, and I’d like to think that there might be an alternative to just reducing age at slaughter by intensive feeding, which has its own carbon footprint in terms of manufacturing and transport. In the long run, perhaps selection for less methane if linked to feed efficiency would benefit the animals and us, but the experiments have to look at performance on forage diets as well as concentrates.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Cowgirl, post: 8623187, member: 3213"] Thanks Tim W - it’s interesting to hear that work is going on in sheep. The emphasis is always on cows but sheep are surely just as important. Those trying to counteract the “cows are bad” propaganda are unfortunately losing the media and political battle despite all our efforts and we are not being backed up strongly enough by those who ought to be supporting us. As someone who has always strongly believed that ruminants were designed to eat grass, not man made concentrates, and that animals should have a decent quality of life, it saddens me that the “less time on the planet” brigade are gaining traction in the debate, and I’d like to think that there might be an alternative to just reducing age at slaughter by intensive feeding, which has its own carbon footprint in terms of manufacturing and transport. In the long run, perhaps selection for less methane if linked to feed efficiency would benefit the animals and us, but the experiments have to look at performance on forage diets as well as concentrates. [/QUOTE]
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