Review Of How Eating Seaweed Can Help Cows To Belch Less Methane References. According to a new study, published wednesday in the journal plos one, the addition of scant. A recent study from the university suggests bovines who eat an experimental mix of special food and a specific strain of seaweed produce less greenhouse gas than their peers.

One potential solution is feeding livestock seaweed. Researchers who put a small amount of seaweed into the feed of cattle over the course of five months found that the new diet caused the bovines to belch out 82% less methane, a potent greenhouse. The spring morning temperature in landlocked northern california warns of an incipient scorcher, but the small herd of piebald dairy cows that live here are too curious to care.