Feeding seaweed to cows can cut methane emissions, says Swedish report

Cows on a meadow in Scania, Sweden. According to manufacturers, the daily feeding of red algae can reduce the methane emissions of meat animals by up to 90%.
Photograph: Juniors Bildarchiv GmbH/Alamy

Sweden is one step closer to making the use of methane-reducing cow feed additives such as seaweed government policy after experts recommended further investigation into the area.

A report by the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency into reduced methane emissions says development in the field has been “rapid in recent years” and is among “a number of new interesting additives with higher potential”.