# Can We Fight Climate Change By Bioengineering a Better Cow? 🐄

**URL:** <https://onehack.st/t/can-we-fight-climate-change-by-bioengineering-a-better-cow/289820>\
**Category:** News & Articles\
**Tags:** tools\
**Created:** [August 25, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/can-we-fight-climate-change-by-bioengineering-a-better-cow/289820 "2024-08-25T18:46:28Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![TheJoker](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/thejoker/32/22660_2.png) [@TheJoker](https://onehack.st/u/TheJoker)\
**Post date:** [August 25, 2024, 6:46pm UTC](https://onehack.st/t/can-we-fight-climate-change-by-bioengineering-a-better-cow/289820/1 "2024-08-25T18:46:28Z")

</div>

**Summary:**

* * *

1. **Methane Challenge**  
Cows contribute significantly to global warming, with their digestive process and manure producing large amounts of methane, a potent greenhouse gas. The Innovative Genomics Institute and UC Davis have launched a $30 million project to engineer cows’ gut microbes to eliminate methane emissions.

2. **Genetic Solution**  
Researchers aim to use genetic engineering to modify the cow’s microbiome, potentially creating a probiotic pill to permanently reduce methane production. This could address a major source of human-made methane and significantly impact climate change.

3. **Future Prospects**  
Initial treatments involve feeding cows red-seaweed oil and developing gene-editing tools for microbial changes. The project hopes to have trial treatments ready in the next two years, with funding secured for seven years of research.

**Read more at:** [msn.com](https://msn.com)

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![owdcodger\_jones](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/owdcodger_jones/32/118364_2.png) [@owdcodger\_jones](https://onehack.st/u/owdcodger_jones)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2024, 11:37am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/can-we-fight-climate-change-by-bioengineering-a-better-cow/289820/2 "2024-08-27T11:37:42Z")

</div>

maybe if we muzzled all politicians,we could expect a better outcome,they are all mad cows

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Maximiliano\_Paradiso](https://onehack.st/user_avatar/onehack.st/maximiliano_paradiso/32/104826_2.png) [@Maximiliano\_Paradiso](https://onehack.st/u/Maximiliano_Paradiso)\
**Post date:** [August 28, 2024, 9:03am UTC](https://onehack.st/t/can-we-fight-climate-change-by-bioengineering-a-better-cow/289820/3 "2024-08-28T09:03:31Z")

</div>

there is not problem with natural weather , problem is the weather engineered to keep humanity in fear , we dont need modify anything more than wiped the politicians and the elite out of this place , by uniting and elevating our consciousness