caveman
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........on foods and indeed other products.
An Idea I heard raised this morning.
A tool we farmers could harness?
An Idea I heard raised this morning.
A tool we farmers could harness?
Or a tool that we will end up funding to end up with more costs, paperwork and assurance schemes so the supermarkets can still drive the prices down and buy the cheapest produce going yet market themselves as supporting British ?
Sorry I used to be an optimist but that is now how I think it will end up.
Good idea but how far do you trace back the CF of a product? For instance on milk, would you just look at the CF of the dairy farm? Or include off farm transport and processing? And what if the Dairy farm imports hfrs from abroad? Or buys from a mart? Do you include the CF of the rearing of replacements?
The problem is that you can work out carbon footprint for anything in a million different ways. It is like asking the question how long is a piece of string. And the biggest problem of all is that farmers will have absolutely no say in deciding what goes into the calculation. You only have to look at the whole "methane from ruminants is killing the planet" bandwagon to see how shocking people's perception of it all is. And it'll be the supermarkets imposing THEIR version of it that will be the one that becomes recognised widely. And do we think they're gonna be painting themselves in a poor light?
Developed world and under developed and so called 3rd world countries devides ?The problem is that you can work out carbon footprint for anything in a million different ways. It is like asking the question how long is a piece of string. And the biggest problem of all is that farmers will have absolutely no say in deciding what goes into the calculation. You only have to look at the whole "methane from ruminants is killing the planet" bandwagon to see how shocking people's perception of it all is. And it'll be the supermarkets imposing THEIR version of it that will be the one that becomes recognised widely. And do we think they're gonna be painting themselves in a poor light?