Ah yes but as we are now less than 60% self sufficient in food to feed ourselves then a lot of that waste pollution comes from overseas.
BBC at it again re meat and climate
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The last two times I have heard a member of the NFU top table on the radio, they apologized for cows.
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- Herefordshire
My near neighbour,a Dr of some sort of science told me Methane breaks down to Carbon Dioxide after 10 to 12 years,so similar to what you are saying.
Can that map be put on extinction rebellion. And Vegan websites.
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- Scotland
Its half life is 9 years. So half the methane is gone after 9. A quarter is left after 18 years.
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- West Suffolk
Even the Terminator is quoted as cutting down on meat today (BBC news app)
ollie989898
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I've said this before and will do so again. Don't watch the news and particularly don't watch the fudging BBC. I don't know why you would watch that on TV.
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- Scotland
That's interesting.
I took my source from wikipedia which cites this source:
Climate Change 2013: The Physical Science Basis: Working Group I Contribution to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
Which strangle is also the same one listed on your EPA page.
Tom Heap flew to California to interview him .Arni given up his Hummer to drive electric it's easy .He did say about buying local!
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- Limousin
A couple of very interesting comments from the global food expert Julian Mellentin on Bill Gates foray into lab meat.
"I can now add that Gates lab-meat and meat substitute investments are looking sick. He sold his shares in Beyond Meat (now losing money, shares tanking) and his Upside Foods lab-meat investment isn't looking too smart. Bill Gates knows as much about food as I do about software"
"Lab-grown chickens coming home to roost? Chief Science Office & Ops Director of a company whose investors include Bill Gates & Richard Branson have quit. After $200 million of investment, it has failed to make lab meat commercially viable (in 2016 it promised to do this by 2021)"
Oh dear!
"I can now add that Gates lab-meat and meat substitute investments are looking sick. He sold his shares in Beyond Meat (now losing money, shares tanking) and his Upside Foods lab-meat investment isn't looking too smart. Bill Gates knows as much about food as I do about software"
"Lab-grown chickens coming home to roost? Chief Science Office & Ops Director of a company whose investors include Bill Gates & Richard Branson have quit. After $200 million of investment, it has failed to make lab meat commercially viable (in 2016 it promised to do this by 2021)"
Oh dear!
PostHarvest
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- Warwick
Yes - another ignorant hypocrite. Arnie stated in an interview that he has had his 300hp diesel powered HumVee converted and it now has a 500 hp electric motor. So it uses 40% MORE energy which has to come from somewhere. It's probably lugging around at least 1/2 ton of dead weight in the form of a massive battery to feed that 500 hp motor. And the battery will be stuffed with lithium which is obtained by massive mining operations which most likely are powered by diesel fuel. More Green misinformation.
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- DD9.
why should what happens on a global scale influence what is happening on a domestic scale?
uk figures are at odds with generalised “global” figures.
There is a notable exception though
perhaps the reason aviation has such a small contribution is because the emissions don’t count if they filled up the plane somewhere else.
serf
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- warwickshire
He'll be joining the dems next
Paddington
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- Soggy Shropshire
As 40% of the population in Greater London is non-caucasian (Wiki) , it seems odd I have never seen a black Insulate Britain protester on the BBC. Is there racial prejudice amongst their ranks ? Why haven't the BBC picked up on this ?
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- North Wales
Out of that diagram the thing people seem to forget is that the 10% emmisions from ag are essential for the human race to survive.
They want us to cut back on the one thing that keeps us alive.
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- North Wales
Until it's all a level playing field, ag will always be a victim.
How can it be ok for aviation to plant farmland to call themselves carbon neutral but farmers can't offset their own carbon on their own land.
Oh ye because big business isn't involved to make large profits shoveling money into their own bank accounts.
Why aren't the NFU AHDB shouting about us being carbon neutral instead of apologising for being the problem?
How can it be ok for aviation to plant farmland to call themselves carbon neutral but farmers can't offset their own carbon on their own land.
Oh ye because big business isn't involved to make large profits shoveling money into their own bank accounts.
Why aren't the NFU AHDB shouting about us being carbon neutral instead of apologising for being the problem?
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- Kent
A lot of it comes down to better methods of testing and measuring much the same as with the older methods of soil testing and the newer methods that give a more accurate reading of what the crop can utilize.
The other thing that people seem to forget is that it's bollox. So we shut down UK ag, GHG emissions fall by 10% do they ? I don't think so. Everybody, stop talking in percentages, change the narrative.
It's a thing ..... Eco-Friendly sex
Eco-friendly sex: What is it and how does it impact on climate change?
As more people try to live environmentally friendly lives, how do we make sex more sustainable?
www.bbc.co.uk
Every day is a school day ... especially when you read on and realise that the "sex" bit of the article actual forms very little