early signs of ruminants stomach enzymes capable of plastic breakdown

[Mr Gus]

https://www.theguardian.com/environment ... wn-plastic

A good piece if you read it all.
Covers the 3 types used from slaughterhouse cow in vienna study.
Then makes mention of the Japanese "dump" super bacteria that were found.
Also another scenario stemming from bacterium found within a pile of presumably mulching leaves.

The headline changed from yesterdays "can" to todays "may" break down plastic, ANNOYING but at least corrected before it got to far out of the news-gate.

[dan_b]

So can we just feed plastic waste to cows now then and live happily ever after?

[Mr Gus]

is that comedy or simply glib? I honestly cannot tell.

100 litres per stomach from a dead cow waste product.
Do I really need to put in a "no live cows hurt in the making of this experiment" disclaimer.

[dan_b]

Well we've fed strange things to cows in the past, like the bodies of dead cows, and that didn't cause any problems, so why not plastic waste?!

[Mr Gus]

Still OFF TOPIC
Have you heard that some idiots in a pretend mass land mass "govt" recently gave the ok again somewhere (possibly the guardian) that led to BSE crisis?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/ ... -livestock

"makes production more competetive"

(IE a race to the bottom AGAIN, & more bankrupt farms, suicidal farmers & room for more naff housing)

What could possibly go wrong.