{"id":23476,"date":"2021-11-16T13:14:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-16T13:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/?p=23476"},"modified":"2021-11-17T08:53:09","modified_gmt":"2021-11-17T08:53:09","slug":"morrisons-trials-climate-friendly-seaweed-cattle-feed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grocerygazette.co.uk\/2021\/11\/16\/morrisons-trials-climate-friendly-seaweed-cattle-feed\/","title":{"rendered":"Morrisons trials \u2018climate-friendly\u2019 seaweed cattle feed"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Big 4 grocer will be the first supermarket to test the alternative feed, with early findings suggesting it reduces methane emissions.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The retailer has announced that it will be funding a PhD project at Queen\u2019s University, Belfast over a three-year trial. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n It\u00a0is testing the nutritional content, effect on meat and milk quality, methane reduction and animal health of native UK coastal seaweed throughout the process.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The\u00a0findings\u00a0have not been published yet,\u00a0but\u00a0Morrisons claims the early\u00a0results\u00a0are \u201cpromising.\u201d<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Reports this year revealed that cows belched 82 per cent less methane following a small level of imported red seaweed distributed in their feed. <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\nMorrisons\u00a0hopes to reduce the \u201cburps and flatulence\u201d of cows with a\u00a0seaweed-based\u00a0\u201cclimate-friendly\u201d cattle feed.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n