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<blockquote data-quote="Sheep" data-source="post: 8153387" data-attributes="member: 4108"><p>Not necessarily - it would be no different to selling a kg of meat, manure, grain or whatever.</p><p></p><p></p><p>+ Land grows grass, sequesters carbon.</p><p>- Sheep eats grass, removes some carbon (from grass organic matter)</p><p>- Sheep emits methane from rumination etc</p><p>+- Very efficiently converts carbon to meat & wool</p><p>+ Returns some manure (organic matter/carbon) to the soil</p><p>+ Other benefits such as weed control, reducing need for herbicides etc.</p><p></p><p>Overall a sheep should end up producing a very efficient food and clothing/insulation source (meat & wool). Quite rightly it is something that should be shouted from the rooftops as [USER=42308]@yellowbelly[/USER] says.</p><p></p><p>However I suspect the reason no-one is yet shouting is that nobody is exactly agreeing on the calculations behind livestock carbon (i.e. the ridiculous headlines that livestock farming is terrible, even though the figures behind the headlines are complete bs).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sheep, post: 8153387, member: 4108"] Not necessarily - it would be no different to selling a kg of meat, manure, grain or whatever. + Land grows grass, sequesters carbon. - Sheep eats grass, removes some carbon (from grass organic matter) - Sheep emits methane from rumination etc +- Very efficiently converts carbon to meat & wool + Returns some manure (organic matter/carbon) to the soil + Other benefits such as weed control, reducing need for herbicides etc. Overall a sheep should end up producing a very efficient food and clothing/insulation source (meat & wool). Quite rightly it is something that should be shouted from the rooftops as [USER=42308]@yellowbelly[/USER] says. However I suspect the reason no-one is yet shouting is that nobody is exactly agreeing on the calculations behind livestock carbon (i.e. the ridiculous headlines that livestock farming is terrible, even though the figures behind the headlines are complete bs). [/QUOTE]
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