Summary
BEEF producers are fighting back against claims by "misguided" campaigners that cattle are bad for the environment and therefore the public should eat less beef.
The National Beef Association (NBA) spoke out in support of domestically-produced beef and insisted it - along with grazing sheep, blackberries and field mushrooms - had a lower carbon footprint that any other food sold or eaten in the UK. It says alternatives to beef production, such as ploughing up grassland to plant crops or intensive pig and poultry farming would release huge amounts of carbon into the atmosphere when the turf was broken.See the full content of this document
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'Carbon-Friendly Cattle' Can Help in Climate Change Battle
NBA chairman Christopher Thomas-Everard said: "The message that cattle, and their beef, are bad n...
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