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The stats touted around seaweed and other feed adatives are highly misleading. Even looking at the highest touted claims you only get an 8% reduction of overall emissions. The high numbers you see are only reporting the feedlot reductions which aren't where the majority of the missions come from
https://www.wired.com/story/carbon-neutral-cows-algae/
Upon further research, it seems we should simply stop most cow production and move to ostriches for red meat.