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  • @SciShow
    @SciShow Жыл бұрын

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  • @brookewatson1541

    @brookewatson1541

    Жыл бұрын

    We r

  • @sudhanshurastogi1502

    @sudhanshurastogi1502

    Жыл бұрын

    you know humans also produce methane ... 2. the most abundant species of animals are those who we eat like chicken ...so instead of going vegan lets go back to eating whatever we can and farming it ...this would insure a more balanced type of evolution ...simply put vigan is a way to hell !!

  • @currysues

    @currysues

    Жыл бұрын

    Do we need to eat less meat? or just eat less beef? Or just eat less ruminants.

  • @someguy2135

    @someguy2135

    7 ай бұрын

    @@currysues Good question! If you don't go vegan, the most effective way to be a "flexitarian" aka "reducitarian" for the environment is to boycott beef and dairy. On the other hand, going vegan is the single most effective way for each of us to minimize our environmental footprint. "According to the most comprehensive analysis of farming’s impact on the planet, plant-based food is most effective at combatting climate change. Oxford University researcher Joseph Poore, who led the study, said adopting a vegan diet is “the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth.” “A vegan diet is probably the single biggest way to reduce your impact on planet Earth, not just greenhouse gases, but global acidification, eutrophication, land use and water use. It is far bigger than cutting down on your flights or buying an electric car,” he explained, which would only reduce greenhouse gas. Avoiding consumption of animal products delivers far better environmental benefits than trying to purchase sustainable meat and dairy,” he added.”. -Joseph Poore, Environmental Science Researcher, University of Oxford. Joseph Poore switched to a plant based diet after seeing the results of the study. Links at my channel under "About.

  • @someguy2135

    @someguy2135

    7 ай бұрын

    @@currysues Sheep are also ruminants, but most people don't eat much lamb or mutton. Boycotting all ruminant products, including wool, would be a good idea, in any case.

  • @lloyddragon2036
    @lloyddragon2036 Жыл бұрын

    huh who could've known forcing cows into cannibalism wouldn't go well

  • @danielm5535

    @danielm5535

    Жыл бұрын

    I’m surprised there wasn’t mention of Kuru- a disease in cannibalistic tribes in Papua-New Guinea- also a degenerative prion disease.

  • @MaryAnnNytowl

    @MaryAnnNytowl

    Жыл бұрын

    Cattle, like other grazers, WILL eat meat, like little baby birds or whatnot that they find, when they have the chance to take a chomp of one. Wild grazers like deer do the same thing.

  • @Slop_Dogg

    @Slop_Dogg

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MaryAnnNytowl right, but you can see how that’s different from eating ground up other cows right lol

  • @TelephonePlays

    @TelephonePlays

    Жыл бұрын

    @@danielm5535 don't prions come from eating brains? Coincidence, most cannibals enjoy brains

  • @olafelsberry420

    @olafelsberry420

    Жыл бұрын

    Now if we could only do that with humans?

  • @motionless_horizon
    @motionless_horizon Жыл бұрын

    A fun prion disease in humans is called Fatal Familial Insomnia, which causes the person to gradually develop insomnia, then hallucinations, loss of motor function, unable to eat, etc. Until they die within 6-36 months after onset of symptoms because of heart failure or infection because of sleep deprivation. Very rare, but it passes down in an autosomal dominant pattern, meaning if you have a parent with it and get the mutated gene, you will have it too

  • @planerdude88

    @planerdude88

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah it's awesome

  • @rawdaaljawhary4174

    @rawdaaljawhary4174

    11 ай бұрын

    Time to wish this on my worst enemy.

  • @TehPwnerer
    @TehPwnerer Жыл бұрын

    The ability to be able to digest insoluble fiber and recover glucose would be a massive evolutionary & evolutionary step forward

  • @suchasweety138
    @suchasweety138 Жыл бұрын

    Okay.. odd question... How do they measure the methane a particular cow produces to determine which cows to be bred to create less methane? Currently I'm imagining a methane meter hanging at the base of the tail 😅

  • @matthewcalifana488

    @matthewcalifana488

    9 ай бұрын

    I can imagine talking cows / No i was not speeding , but maybe try using my methane to power the tractor & cars and trucks now leave us alone so we can fart in peace .

  • @tristinsperry5171

    @tristinsperry5171

    9 ай бұрын

    Well, the methane is mainly in burps. Hence, the breathalyzer used to measure greenhouse gas emissions. Only nitrous dioxide was mentioned to be heavy in the stool

  • @FupaDoncic
    @FupaDoncic Жыл бұрын

    Steaming pile is definitely a saying made by cattle. People around the world dry cow dungs and use them as charcoal around the world

  • @samsonsoturian6013

    @samsonsoturian6013

    Жыл бұрын

    These days they're mostly used as fertilizer.

  • @juanjoyaborja.3054

    @juanjoyaborja.3054

    Жыл бұрын

    Especially in Northern India. You can find entire piles of cow dung cakes on the sides of roads.

  • @MaryAnnNytowl

    @MaryAnnNytowl

    Жыл бұрын

    They were used a whole lot on the prairie before we plopped non-native trees all over the place, there, for wood to burn.

  • @samsonsoturian6013

    @samsonsoturian6013

    Жыл бұрын

    @@MaryAnnNytowl there's more trees and vegitation and animals where I live now than compared to 200 years ago. Originally this was open grasslands with some buffalo. Organized cultivation does wonders.

  • @joshschmidt4546

    @joshschmidt4546

    Жыл бұрын

    its common with sheep poo too. in Mongolia they use mostly that for fuel, its called peat. At least in rural places which is most of the country its common, but a little in the cities as well.

  • @chrismcgowan5180
    @chrismcgowan5180 Жыл бұрын

    Interesting that Sci-show didnt make a video on the cognitive or emotion capacity of Cows, i'd like to get to 'know' them

  • @88smileandnod

    @88smileandnod

    Жыл бұрын

    fun fact, cows have best friends! And take turns babysitting calves

  • @chrismcgowan5180

    @chrismcgowan5180

    Жыл бұрын

    @@88smileandnod Wow, thats a video I would watch @scishow

  • @garden.of.thistles

    @garden.of.thistles

    Жыл бұрын

    Cows are amazingly empathetic and social creatures, I would be much more interested in learning about their natural behaviors instead of the nightmare we've created through factory farming them

  • @itsjeninMass

    @itsjeninMass

    Жыл бұрын

    I love cows. I would definitely watch that video!

  • @Noukz37

    @Noukz37

    Жыл бұрын

    I just ranted out in a comment here about this... I'm glad there are others who see the issues presented here. 🙏🏻

  • @MichelleEvans_CatLady
    @MichelleEvans_CatLady Жыл бұрын

    This is bringing me back to my animal science degree I specialised in ruminant production

  • @b0rder.-991

    @b0rder.-991

    Жыл бұрын

    What do you do now?

  • @rawdaaljawhary4174

    @rawdaaljawhary4174

    11 ай бұрын

    That is so cool!!

  • @masterimbecile
    @masterimbecile Жыл бұрын

    I am deeply moo-ved by this video.

  • @kelvisaisawesome

    @kelvisaisawesome

    Жыл бұрын

    Evile.

  • @rawdaaljawhary4174

    @rawdaaljawhary4174

    11 ай бұрын

    😂😂😂 love your comment and brilliance!

  • @victorb145

    @victorb145

    7 ай бұрын

    To easy to be funny but ok.

  • @caradanellemcclintock8178
    @caradanellemcclintock8178 Жыл бұрын

    Id be interested In looking at the specs for ostrich farming we get ostrich meat in the stores here in South Africa and it tastes almost the same as beef

  • @rawdaaljawhary4174

    @rawdaaljawhary4174

    11 ай бұрын

    Whoa, that's very interesting! I never knew that. Are ostriches herbivores or carnivores? Muslims can only eat herbivores, so I'm asking to know if I could try ostrich meat. 😅 This means that Muslims don't eat things like shark, snake, and alligator, like some cultures do.

  • @caradanellemcclintock8178

    @caradanellemcclintock8178

    11 ай бұрын

    @@rawdaaljawhary4174 As far as I know ostriches are like most birds that eat grains and bugs Im not sure if that counts since chickens and turkeys eat bugs too. Muslims are a huge part of the population in South Africa to so foods are usually marked as Halal or not Halal I will check next time Im at the shop Id be interested to know myself.

  • @caradanellemcclintock8178

    @caradanellemcclintock8178

    11 ай бұрын

    @@rawdaaljawhary4174 So I found out it is actually labled as Halal at least here in this country it should be safe for you to try. It is a bit leaner than beef so you might want to add a bit of additional fat to keep it juicy if your making burgers or something like that but it is great in pasta sauces if you didn't know it was ostrich you'd be hard pressed to find a difference in flavour.

  • @caradanellemcclintock8178

    @caradanellemcclintock8178

    10 ай бұрын

    Just to update on the situation I actuality checked the ostrich meat on a shopping trip recently and it is marked as Halal so It is safe for you to eat

  • @OorahhColeman
    @OorahhColeman Жыл бұрын

    This may have been the kinkiest sci show notification I've seen

  • @johnnyrepine937

    @johnnyrepine937

    Жыл бұрын

    We have such sights to show moo.

  • @emilyauld8622

    @emilyauld8622

    Жыл бұрын

    I think that says more about you than scishow...

  • @kalxi1724

    @kalxi1724

    Жыл бұрын

    Accidentally clicking on this video and then only reading the title and this comment was very, very confusing

  • @jordanp5469

    @jordanp5469

    Жыл бұрын

    You might just be an oddball

  • @samuilzaychev9636

    @samuilzaychev9636

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kalxi1724 i did the same and yes, I agree😵‍💫

  • @mattlapointe-smith6257
    @mattlapointe-smith6257 Жыл бұрын

    I was born in England in 1981 which involved a blood transfusion cause I was a C-section. I've lived in the US since 1983 but still can't donate blood because I could be a secret mad cow. And also I like to kiss other men but that's neither here nor there.

  • @kelvisaisawesome

    @kelvisaisawesome

    Жыл бұрын

    The emotional roller coaster. I think I know and understand you better than I do myself

  • @rawdaaljawhary4174

    @rawdaaljawhary4174

    11 ай бұрын

    Bahaha 😂 I love this thread. Much love and support to you, friends.

  • @charleswalters5284

    @charleswalters5284

    10 ай бұрын

    Wasn't that whole thing caused by a mandate to pour stuff called phosmet on all the cows in england ?

  • @WildlifeWarrior-yd1fq

    @WildlifeWarrior-yd1fq

    Ай бұрын

    I think you like to do a little more than just kiss

  • @luster5497
    @luster5497 Жыл бұрын

    When the video ended and he reminded you about the mad cow diseases in the first, shocked me because I forgot about it when he said BBQ.

  • @kelvisaisawesome

    @kelvisaisawesome

    Жыл бұрын

    Duuude. 😂

  • @silverhranch
    @silverhranch Жыл бұрын

    He forgot that hydroxyl radicals hanging out in the atmosphere neutralizes the methane that cattle emit. The beauty of the full circle of life!

  • @gamesman0118

    @gamesman0118

    Жыл бұрын

    Or that methane is heavier than air and the soil can absorb it.

  • @DrBear-rk4qb

    @DrBear-rk4qb

    Жыл бұрын

    Do you think climate scientists studying the issue just forgot to take that into account? Do you believe you're more knowledgeable on this issue than they are? And how can you be sure there are enough hydroxyl radicals to neutralize methane from 80 billion land animals we kill every year? Just curious.

  • @silverhranch

    @silverhranch

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gamesman0118 Some may but hydroxyl radicals are everywhere when sunlight/UV rays hit water vaper they are created. It can happens pretty fast depending on weather conditions and complex molecules like methane or other pollutants get change into simple ones compounds or even elements.

  • @silverhranch

    @silverhranch

    Жыл бұрын

    @@DrBear-rk4qb Not sure what's going on exactly but corruption is pretty bad these days. Hydroxyl radicals are nothing new and they are one way our air is cleaned or complex molecules like methane and pollutants are "recycled". You think all this toxic stuff that gets spewed into the air just hangs out or collects somewhere?? NO, It gets changed into more simple molecules or even elements by ozone an hydroxyl radicals. In chemistry nothing new is ever created or lost. Different elements come together to form a different unique structure called molecules. Then they can be disassembled by other molecules called ozone and hydroxyl radicals so that process can start agan!

  • @Tinky1rs

    @Tinky1rs

    Жыл бұрын

    @@gamesman0118 methane is mixed into air, it doesn't really fall down when it's "dissolved" like that.

  • @j.bailey5619
    @j.bailey5619 Жыл бұрын

    the fact that there have only been 4 cases reported in the U.S. is insane and it has to be an underestimate, I didn't even know it was such a contained problem! My great uncle died that way, so it's weird to think: was he one of the 4? Or was his unreported? What happened there?

  • @MaryAnnNytowl

    @MaryAnnNytowl

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, if it was on his death certificate, it would be reported.

  • @samanthadill13

    @samanthadill13

    10 ай бұрын

    Vcjd is not the only type of cjd. If i remember correctly what i had to learn about it when i started working in surgery is that the type just indicates the method of contraction so the video is probably saying that 4 people died from variant cjd which is cjd of unknown origin. He very well could have had cjd but not been part of this 4

  • @MrMockingbird1313
    @MrMockingbird13137 ай бұрын

    Hey Hank, Here is a subject idea. I received a few 1lb packages of ground bison from a food pantry. Ground bison is the best meat I have ever eaten. Supposedily it is much easy to produce. The bison eat much less forage. Their weight gain to time ratio is supposed to be much better than beef. All I know, the meat tastes great. Glad your health is continues improving. Be well.

  • @Lambsical
    @Lambsical Жыл бұрын

    this could not be more convenient, just got into watching people trim hooves like 2 days ago

  • @Kane42069
    @Kane420693 ай бұрын

    the fact that they used breathalyzers on cows cracked me up

  • @angel96benitez
    @angel96benitez Жыл бұрын

    Many people have said this I'm sure I know I'm not the only one but kinda sounds like cows could breath frie, just give it a lighter and boom dragon-cow... or cow-dragon

  • @TelafiestaSecretMenu
    @TelafiestaSecretMenu Жыл бұрын

    Wonderfully articulated

  • @dragonskunkstudio7582
    @dragonskunkstudio7582 Жыл бұрын

    They will eat seaweed so you make the cows eat in the ocean and we can call them sea cows.

  • @caspenbee
    @caspenbee11 ай бұрын

    The connecting bits between these segments are a little deranged 😂 keep up the great work!

  • @dbxvhero9006
    @dbxvhero9006 Жыл бұрын

    A wise man once said: *_"Touch the cow. Do it now."_* 🐄

  • @victorhmaya9536
    @victorhmaya9536 Жыл бұрын

    Why are you explaining me that I can't eat grass? I'll eat grass if I want too, you not my dad

  • @jennifercarriger6168
    @jennifercarriger6168 Жыл бұрын

    I could be wrong, but hasn’t Japan had seaweed farms for awhile now?

  • @someguy2135

    @someguy2135

    7 ай бұрын

    Not just Japan! Korea is a major exporter of edible seaweed like Nori which is used as a snack or in sushi.

  • @westzed23

    @westzed23

    6 ай бұрын

    In Scotland, and I think Ireland as well, there are sheep farmers on small islands that feed their sheep seaweed that is tossed onto the beaches by winds and the tide. They charge higher for these sheep because the seaweed improves the flavour. Exclusive restaurants bid to get the best sheep.

  • @WildlifeWarrior-yd1fq

    @WildlifeWarrior-yd1fq

    Ай бұрын

    Not on a large scale that could feed the cows of the world

  • @rachelann9362
    @rachelann93624 ай бұрын

    I knew one of those few people that died of CJD while he station in Europe at one point. It was such a sad, and utterly devastating way to go. There’s absolutely nothing you can do to slow it down, at best you can treat some symptoms and keep people as comfortable as possible. He died in 2016. He had an awareness of what was happening for quite a long time. He couldn’t talk anymore, but he would make little gestures like to express his disgust over a high bill or to show agreement.

  • @elizamccroskey1708

    @elizamccroskey1708

    3 ай бұрын

    How horrible. I’m glad things were changed fairly quickly to keep that from happening to more people.

  • @amandagardiner6065
    @amandagardiner6065 Жыл бұрын

    Seaweed farms double benefit and been an idea for a while due to seaweeds ability to remove large amounts of carbon and put out lots of oxygen. Double whammy maybe?

  • @MaryAnnNytowl

    @MaryAnnNytowl

    Жыл бұрын

    BOGO? Two birds with one stone? Yeah, something like that.

  • @rogerszmodis
    @rogerszmodis3 ай бұрын

    All our cows are 100% cow-fed for that double-cow juiced in goodness.

  • @Zeplin02
    @Zeplin026 ай бұрын

    I work in am ifectious disease lab and vCJD is no joke. Its tested using Ceribral spinal fluid (CSF) Those samples have to be kept inside of a bio bag covered with warnings, and only opned undernead a vented hood. You have to change gloves immidiatly after handling the samples. Its the most dangerous thing I deal with. We probably only see about 10 tests a year for CJD, but cannot stress constantly the importance of handling them with care.

  • @cass8353
    @cass8353 Жыл бұрын

    expected more about actual cows and how they live and interact socially):

  • @altosack

    @altosack

    Жыл бұрын

    This is _Sci_ show, and behavioral “sciences” are really in their infancy as far as science goes. I’m not disparaging them, and yes, I realize they’re making great strides of late, but that start has been recent; they were hampered by a lot of hypothesizing into theories without enough data to back it up for many decades.

  • @maggielovestoads
    @maggielovestoads Жыл бұрын

    Wow I really went through my entire chemistry of food class thinking it was pronounced “mail-erd” reaction… granted the professor was from the Boston area😂

  • @kimberlypatton205
    @kimberlypatton2054 ай бұрын

    You forgot to mention the technique of “silkening” - or marinating in a water/ baking soda mixture-for tenderizing. It works SO well, as many Oriental chefs can attest. But is the “salt” science similar for how silkening your meat works so well?

  • @markmuller7962
    @markmuller7962 Жыл бұрын

    Combine that with animals welfare and you get a good motivation to reduce meat consumption

  • @cartoonistanonymous

    @cartoonistanonymous

    Жыл бұрын

    If either one alone isn't enough, both together should be close

  • @markmuller7962

    @markmuller7962

    Жыл бұрын

    @naka How would you rate your knowledge of the history of sociology? Society changes and many things that were considered normal becomes bad behaviour or even taboos, that's the whole point of Personality Disorders. On the animal welfare, violence in general becomes more and more a taboo overtime which impacts the male role the most but also how we treat animals. One example of new taboos when it come to woman is having 5 or 10 children like in the old days. Disclaimer for the KZread comment section: "Please be scientific in your answer and also tell me your age because I've just discovered that yesterday I was arguing with a 14 years old which is a aberrant waste of time for a 38 years old like me"

  • @markmuller7962

    @markmuller7962

    Жыл бұрын

    @naka You struggle so much to understand my points, you most be very very young. This conversation is over, you're muted

  • @hemberger91
    @hemberger91 Жыл бұрын

    One thing that could help with the cows. Make the feed lots cleaner. If you live near a feedlot you know the smell and the mess.

  • @landofevolution9757

    @landofevolution9757

    Жыл бұрын

    Cows eat grass.

  • @crapstirrer
    @crapstirrer Жыл бұрын

    I'm a simple person. I see inside out cows, I click.

  • @jackprice4959
    @jackprice4959 Жыл бұрын

    I had a family member die of vCJD disease in the US and I don't think they picked it up overseas.

  • @rawdaaljawhary4174

    @rawdaaljawhary4174

    11 ай бұрын

    I'm sorry for your loss. I hope they didn't suffer too badly.

  • @francesbernard2445
    @francesbernard2445 Жыл бұрын

    Good thing my aunt Rita was ordained to be our teacher on her parents farm soon enough.

  • @cursedGalataea
    @cursedGalataea Жыл бұрын

    GRASS👏 PUPPIES👏 that is all

  • @barbaragarner9192
    @barbaragarner9192 Жыл бұрын

    My biggest question what does the seaweed milk taste like from those cows, because we had a dairy years ago, so I know what raw milk tastes like, pastured is milk is not the same it tastes water down. Will I want more sushi with seaweed milk?

  • @ronha9181

    @ronha9181

    Жыл бұрын

    Well, soymilk taste very different than regular dairy milk. But, soymilk regularly contains some ginger flavour.

  • @MazeMaker4Life

    @MazeMaker4Life

    Жыл бұрын

    I assume it'd* be salty

  • @noonespecial9233

    @noonespecial9233

    Жыл бұрын

    I wondered the same thing! I guess since it's such a small amount it might not be enough to come through? Can we make actual strawberry milk by feeding cows tons of strawberries?? The real questions

  • @barbaragarner9192

    @barbaragarner9192

    Жыл бұрын

    @@noonespecial9233 some people thought chocolate milk came from brown cows, I still laugh at people who have no idea were milk or their food comes from

  • @b0rder.-991

    @b0rder.-991

    Жыл бұрын

    @@barbaragarner9192 Americans still think that 🤣

  • @michaeltracy6795
    @michaeltracy67959 ай бұрын

    I wonder how far CO2 and methane levels drop after all the American bison were eliminated? Might be interesting information...

  • @MelodySnowflakeVA
    @MelodySnowflakeVA Жыл бұрын

    I made a mistake watching this while having dinner, I'm going to pause it now

  • @silentracer911
    @silentracer911 Жыл бұрын

    Yay, the SciShow I have always wanted!!! 😂 Love you guys either way, informative episode!

  • @natorsi
    @natorsi11 ай бұрын

    Any updates on the science of pre-digesting cellulose with cellulase to allow humans to eat grass?

  • @rvnurse2b
    @rvnurse2b6 ай бұрын

    Hank, If there used to be WAY more bison and wild goats and sheep and other rumenents, then WHY is it a big deal to have a lot of cows? arent they basically replacing those previous animals?

  • @annakatebertolet2703
    @annakatebertolet2703 Жыл бұрын

    bro is looking all trimmed up and groomed. he upgraded himself.

  • @forshizzlemywizzle
    @forshizzlemywizzle7 ай бұрын

    I can’t believe you missed the chance to call this the “cowmpilation”

  • @Bildgesmythe
    @Bildgesmythe Жыл бұрын

    What impact did bison have in the past? They had vast herds.

  • @MaryAnnNytowl

    @MaryAnnNytowl

    Жыл бұрын

    Not only what Dropkick said, but the number of buffalo at their height was less than a third of the cattle we have _in stockyards, in the continental US alone._ The vastly different numbers, the vastly different ecosystems (we don't _have_ those tallgrass prairies any more), and the vastly different biologies of the two critters all need to be in the equation. They simply weren't anywhere near as bad for the atmosphere as the cattle are, now. Plus the fact that we already, not even counting the cattle, pump an unimaginably large amount of methane into the air in other ways, too, so what the cattle do are amplified by what else we are doing, while the bison weren't competing against humans for worst worldwide polluter back then.

  • @victorianmagnet9308
    @victorianmagnet93082 ай бұрын

    Cows and sheep have us... bleat. xD

  • @nadenhwa513
    @nadenhwa513 Жыл бұрын

    What's truly disturbing is why did we humans feed cows, which are natural herbivores, meat?! (Not to mention of their own kind). Cows aren't even omnivores like chicken. They shouldn't be fed animal products

  • @babecat2000

    @babecat2000

    Жыл бұрын

    Cows have eaten meat on their own. Weird

  • @rydaddy2867

    @rydaddy2867

    Жыл бұрын

    Whitetail deer will occasionally eat meat...birds, small mammals...no one is exactly sure what dietary deficiency drives them to do this.

  • @insertianameia2224

    @insertianameia2224

    Жыл бұрын

    It's for generally for the iron, calcium, salts, and protein. Many herbivores are known to do this on occasion and on opportunity. Cows, deer, elk, chimps. Gorillas, and many more. They're very easy ways to get those and other nutrients. Especially salts and iron. Remember that stuff isn't so common in the wild unless you eat meat. And not all natural water sources have a high enough calcium and iron in it to prevent a deficiency from happening in all animals. (Hard water is horrible for your plumbing but actually very good for you. Same with the sulfur in it as well.) Salts are an essential electrolyte for just about all animals. You'll fide pretty quick if you eliminated 100% salt from your diet. (The problem is having too many added salts, but they're finding it might not be as bad as we first thought.)

  • @maryknudson9265
    @maryknudson9265 Жыл бұрын

    In summary: " don't eat graaaaaass. don't eat grass. Don't "

  • @shutupsprinkles
    @shutupsprinkles Жыл бұрын

    6:05 Hank: DON’T EAT GRASS!!!! DON’T. EAT. DON’T EAT GRASS

  • @IRMacGuyver
    @IRMacGuyver Жыл бұрын

    When I grow up I want to go to Bovine University.

  • @LIVE781REDRUM
    @LIVE781REDRUM10 ай бұрын

    I cant wait for our robot overlords

  • @greenbean421
    @greenbean421 Жыл бұрын

    seaweed farming is pretty neat

  • @PenSlaps
    @PenSlaps Жыл бұрын

    Cow king says Moo

  • @kristen5607
    @kristen5607 Жыл бұрын

    I'm a dairy cow nutritionist and the methane story is terribly incomplete. Methane is a green house gas, yes, but it only stays in the environment for 10 years compared to CO2 that stays for over 100 years. Dairy farmers have been breeding cows for efficiency for years and our national herd size has decreased from 100 million in the early 1900s to only 9 million. So the methane contribution from dairy cows has already decreased by over 90% and we are producing more milk and meat! While, the CO2 produced from the first cars is still in the atmosphere... There has also been great technology invented to capture the methane gasses from cow manure and convert it to energy for dairy farms. There are some dairies that have completely converted to this bio-fuel and no longer using any fossil fuels for vehicles and facilities. This further reduces the methane contribution of the national dairy herd! For more information I would recommend reading articles by Dr. Mitloehner from UC Davis that studies green house gasses

  • @lavona8204

    @lavona8204

    Жыл бұрын

    How interesting, thank you

  • @razberrie27
    @razberrie27 Жыл бұрын

    MOOOOO!!!!!!

  • @amandaa1105
    @amandaa1105 Жыл бұрын

    Thats why meat grown from animal cells is an amazing innovation 👏 Wildtype Foods and Upside are the perfect solution to reduce greenhouse emissions and provide more efficient food for starving countries

  • @x_apollyon2822
    @x_apollyon2822 Жыл бұрын

    I wish this video was timestamped :c

  • @Dshado
    @Dshado Жыл бұрын

    Cowpilation

  • @resourceress7
    @resourceress7 Жыл бұрын

    Hankschannel: Zomg DON'T EAT GRASS!!1!!

  • @a_e_hilton
    @a_e_hilton Жыл бұрын

    If cows were a country, I would want to go there

  • @MaryAnnNytowl

    @MaryAnnNytowl

    Жыл бұрын

    Countries don't normally randomly choose to trample people, usually. Not all of them are Switzerland. Many of them are more like Russia, China, or Iran.

  • @samsonsoturian6013
    @samsonsoturian6013 Жыл бұрын

    Field of cows doesn't look dirty to you? Do you have any idea what those smell like?

  • @amosanon3274
    @amosanon3274 Жыл бұрын

    And I thought they smelled bad on the outside!?!

  • @allythearts5439
    @allythearts54399 ай бұрын

    Yeah i never ate grass before 😂 i dont even think as a kid id have to go ask about that one 😂

  • @awaredeshmukh3202

    @awaredeshmukh3202

    7 ай бұрын

    I definitely tried it as a kid. Not terribly appetizing, very fibrous.

  • @archangel996
    @archangel996 Жыл бұрын

    gonna start saying, "best part? no goats necessary!" in my day-to-day life

  • @stanleydenning
    @stanleydenning Жыл бұрын

    OMG. Not three minutes before watching this video, I was looking out my window at the cows in the pasture... There are about twenty cows out there. They are all grazing and they are all facing the same direction. West. It's 7:15 Pm. Why do they always face in the same direction? Answer that.

  • @samsonsoturian6013

    @samsonsoturian6013

    Жыл бұрын

    Maybe they see something interesting, maybe they just came from the direction their butts are facing.

  • @noonespecial9233

    @noonespecial9233

    Жыл бұрын

    Random guess- maybe they're facing the wind to avoid flies?

  • @dwaynewilliams3077

    @dwaynewilliams3077

    Жыл бұрын

    They are praying 🙏 🤲 🕌

  • @brandonadkins9435

    @brandonadkins9435

    Жыл бұрын

    Another hypothesis: Temperature regulation on different sides of their body.

  • @darkwing3713
    @darkwing37139 ай бұрын

    You could substitute hydrogen sulfide producers for the methane producers. Hydrogen sulfide isn't a green house gas. There are some problems with it though. For one thing it will react with ozone - so you end up with pollution and a damaged ozone layer. The other problem is that those cow are going to be oh so stanky. The best thing to do is let them produce methane as much as they want - but collect it. If you mess with your cows' biome, you'll just make them sick. Just invent a methane collector and fasten it to them. They'll get used to it. And methane is just about the same as natural gas.

  • @AutisticThinker
    @AutisticThinker Жыл бұрын

    5:47... Is'n't grass their preferred diet?

  • @Nazuiko
    @Nazuiko10 ай бұрын

    There happens to be a giant cluster of seaweed in the southern atlantic that needs disposed... And cows that eat seaweed are more green... two problems fixed at once?

  • @bluntforcetanya
    @bluntforcetanya Жыл бұрын

    Meat is in fact a journal, I'm in my masters in exercise science and I have referenced a paper from it 🤙🏻

  • @purplealice
    @purplealice Жыл бұрын

    How about harvesting grass, and even wood chips, and processing it with cellulase, and make human food out of it? World hunger, solved!

  • @chrismcgowan5180

    @chrismcgowan5180

    Жыл бұрын

    A logically sound comment

  • @victorhmaya9536
    @victorhmaya9536 Жыл бұрын

    I'd like to meet these cool Scientist.

  • @kelvisaisawesome

    @kelvisaisawesome

    Жыл бұрын

    Which ones?

  • @victorhmaya9536

    @victorhmaya9536

    Жыл бұрын

    @@kelvisaisawesome “cool scientist”

  • @kayallen7603
    @kayallen76033 ай бұрын

    and what happens to methane in the atmosphere - it gets broken down into oxygen etc in as little as 10 years. /eat the meat.

  • @jennytweet7602
    @jennytweet7602 Жыл бұрын

    Don't eat grazss! Don't. Eat. Grazss!

  • @colleenkochman9656
    @colleenkochman9656 Жыл бұрын

    how will eating the seaweed affect the cow's nutrition? how will changing their gut microbes affect their nutrition? How will these changes affect the meat and therefore the consumers?

  • @NeonCicada

    @NeonCicada

    Жыл бұрын

    So, they're referring to the bromoform containing genus Asparagopsis. _(bromoform [CHBr3] is a halogen compound used to inhibit gastrointestinal methanogenesis [ CH4] in ruminants)_ *--* It shouldn't affect the cow's digestion or nutrition at all because CHBr3 works on CH4 by forming CO2 & CH4 doesn't actually facilitate any digestive action. 🌳🌳....🤿🐄..🤿🐄.🤿🐄....🌳🌳 *I know some people were concerned about CHBr3 getting into the bodily fluids of dairy cows (as that's how all CH4 analogues are excreted from the body) -- but, the amounts present in a cow's meat, milk, or blood would be MANY times bellow anything remotely dangerous; LD50 = 1.8g/kg.*

  • @colleenkochman9656

    @colleenkochman9656

    Жыл бұрын

    @@NeonCicada thanks! always good to learn something new "outside one's wheelhouse"

  • @undrhil5281
    @undrhil52812 ай бұрын

    Did they test the flavor of the milk and the vitamin content of the milk for the cows that had the 1% and 0.5% of seaweed

  • @htopherollem649
    @htopherollem649 Жыл бұрын

    just curious but how much methane is released from abandoned oil wells? I would wager that it was a larger amount than that released by cows

  • @Epicdps

    @Epicdps

    Жыл бұрын

    Don't forget about methane produced by waste from chicken and pig farming, it's not just cows. Cesspools of animal feces just sitting around everywhere around the world

  • @chrismcgowan5180

    @chrismcgowan5180

    Жыл бұрын

    Relevance?

  • @raisedbynoodles

    @raisedbynoodles

    Жыл бұрын

    Not to mention the methane reliesed from food waste.

  • @htopherollem649

    @htopherollem649

    Жыл бұрын

    @@chrismcgowan5180 just trying to get a perspective on how large of a threat to climate change compared to other sources. In today's "climate " of alarmist news stories and p hacking (not to mention green washing) it can be difficult to know what causes to champion

  • @MaryAnnNytowl

    @MaryAnnNytowl

    Жыл бұрын

    @@htopherollem649 how about ALL of them are relevant? Because they are. ALL. Relevant. If your roof leaks in 4 or 5 spots, why call in the roofer to only repair one or maybe two of them? Edited to add, what you would "wager..." what citations do you have to back up that wager? 🤔 The fact is that we don't have nearly a billion abandoned oil wells that are belching out methane all day and night, every day, like we do cattle _just in the continental US alone._

  • @Leftatalbuquerque
    @Leftatalbuquerque Жыл бұрын

    Meanwhile, millions of bison roamed North America for centuries and no one complained.

  • @Jabberwockybird

    @Jabberwockybird

    Жыл бұрын

    This. The climate change becuase of cows thing is so stupid.

  • @Hi_Im_Akward

    @Hi_Im_Akward

    Жыл бұрын

    The problem is how we farm them. Bison were part of the ecosystem. Farming practices completely disrupt this. So any emissions farmed cows produce effect the environment, while bison, apart of the ecosystem, would have their carbon and methane emissions cycling through the ecosystem and feeding microbiomes.

  • @rickverhoef4688

    @rickverhoef4688

    Жыл бұрын

    @@Hi_Im_Akward other then the farming practices. The forage (grass, alfalfa, corn ect.) is still harvested off the field fed to the cows and then the manure spread back on the field. Not the same cycle but basically very similar to what happened back then.

  • @samsonsoturian6013

    @samsonsoturian6013

    Жыл бұрын

    They're bred for meat in certain parts of Kansas and Oklahoma these days. It's good meat.

  • @DrBear-rk4qb

    @DrBear-rk4qb

    Жыл бұрын

    We raise and kill 80 BILLION land animals every year. Do you understand the difference between millions and *80 billion* each year?

  • @MrMegaPussyPlayer
    @MrMegaPussyPlayer Жыл бұрын

    5:56 You can eat it, you just can't digest it ...

  • @edwardtu79themixedcontentc56
    @edwardtu79themixedcontentc56 Жыл бұрын

    Turns out, we do eat grass. Wheat, rice, oats, rye, corn and barley are all grasses, we just call them grains.

  • @VictoriaEMeredith

    @VictoriaEMeredith

    Жыл бұрын

    Yyyyyes, but we eat the seeds, not the stems and leaves (mostly).

  • @edwardtu79themixedcontentc56

    @edwardtu79themixedcontentc56

    Жыл бұрын

    @@VictoriaEMeredith I know that!

  • @landofevolution9757

    @landofevolution9757

    Жыл бұрын

    Wheatgrass is a thing.

  • @vivalabad6

    @vivalabad6

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, and there's about 0 nutritional value for humans to do so.

  • @insertianameia2224

    @insertianameia2224

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah and we eat corn. But only the eat. We don't eat the "grass" parts of any of these foods. They're talking about eating the "grass" part. As in stems, leaves, and such. We can't digest that and would get sick and die if tried to live off it solely. We cant even fully digest the much easier to digest corn seeds.

  • @JoseGranny
    @JoseGranny Жыл бұрын

    Getting down witcha cuud.

  • @capt.bart.roberts4975
    @capt.bart.roberts4975 Жыл бұрын

    I really like cows, stupid but sweet.

  • @AutisticThinker
    @AutisticThinker Жыл бұрын

    Moo => Poo ;)

  • @bloodybritbastard
    @bloodybritbastard Жыл бұрын

    Brittany, France has major problems with seaweed washing up on shore, rotting and the H2S given off has killed in the past…. So harvest that instead and take care of 2 birds (cows?) with one stone?!

  • @mx.pixiedowner4593
    @mx.pixiedowner4593 Жыл бұрын

    Not particularly safe, but I much prefer the flavor of mostly raw steak

  • @speadskater
    @speadskater Жыл бұрын

    So you're saying that we can make grass wine my peeing into a closed tank of grass?

  • @keramiroberts6695
    @keramiroberts66958 ай бұрын

    Those poor cows having their moooood change

  • @kawawangkowboy9566
    @kawawangkowboy9566 Жыл бұрын

    Beer is made of barley... I digest grass all the time

  • @yellowflowerorangeflower5706
    @yellowflowerorangeflower5706 Жыл бұрын

    A cookie for the algorithm.

  • @Timbeon
    @Timbeon Жыл бұрын

    Should've been titled Cow-pilation

  • @nrsrymj
    @nrsrymj Жыл бұрын

    Omg do I want to?

  • @Teelirious
    @Teelirious7 ай бұрын

    So...seaweed is Beano?

  • @timothycampbell1107
    @timothycampbell1107 Жыл бұрын

    Please do some research on the biogenic carbon cycle

  • @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time
    @Dyslexic-Artist-Theory-on-Time Жыл бұрын

    Eₖ=½mv² cow in motion LOL

  • @nordicfarmstead1086
    @nordicfarmstead1086 Жыл бұрын

    NOW DO SHEEP... 🐑

  • @stevenrais9360
    @stevenrais9360 Жыл бұрын

    I do my part and hunt for my food

  • @nate.2.2
    @nate.2.2 Жыл бұрын

    Missed a golden opportunity for 'cowd' computing there

  • @gregbits6109
    @gregbits6109 Жыл бұрын

    Searing a steak before cooking? I’ve never heard of this…

  • @MaryAnnNytowl

    @MaryAnnNytowl

    Жыл бұрын

    What? No way. Are you joking? Please tell me you're joking. 😲

  • @samsonsoturian6013
    @samsonsoturian6013 Жыл бұрын

    Hoping they show the part where they cut a gaping hole in its belly and cow doesn't care.