Mootral, based in Switzerland and Great Britain, proposed its solution to the problem of climate change. Startup developed special food with garlic and citrus fruit for cows, which is designed to fight flatulence. As a result, this will reduce the emissions of the destructive for methane atmosphere, reports Bloomberg.
Mootral hope that in this way it will be able to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent. The company launched a compensation program: a certified food farmer can sell quotas on greenhouse gas emissions to customers who want to compensate for emissions produced.
The program received the name Cowcredits, while sold only 300 such programs. Buyers became mainly American manufacturers of food additives and coffee shop networks. Now Mootral tests its products on farms in the US and Europe and wants to create an environmentally friendly beef.
Livestock leads to significant emissions of greenhouse gases: it accounts for up to 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions. Due to the respiration of animals, carbon dioxide is produced, and inventive digestion intensive meteorism leads to a significant emission of methane, which is much more dangerous to CO2. Methane emissions can vary depending on the breed of cow and environmental conditions. On average, one cow produces daily from 250 to 500 liters of methane.