Are you sure about those numbers? Sure I read somewhere that there are less ruminants than 30 years ago?To feed the four fold explosion in worldwide human population in the past hundred years, ruminant numbers have roughly doubled
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The vast majority of the increase occurring in China and south America. Predictions are that numbers in these regions will double again by 2050
Chicken makes up the protein shortfall, with numbers having increased from below 4 billion in 1950, to a current estimate exceeding 22 billion per year!
To put those numbers into perspective, the number of people travelling by aeroplane has increased more than six fold since 1980. According to the international aviation authority, in 2020 nearly 4.6 billon people travelled somewhere by air!
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An (admittedly rough) estimate of the carbon emitted per passenger for an hours flight is 250kg. Please just take a moment to consider the billions of kg of carbon this equates to, every single year.....
And my grass fed hill cows and sheep are the problem?????
It's way past time the AHDB got its head out of it's puppeteer erse, and realised who pays the piper: We do, and it's not us killing the planet