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<blockquote data-quote="betweenthelines" data-source="post: 7776381" data-attributes="member: 45282"><p>I have a problem when anyone claims that their way of farming, be it "organic" "sustainable" "carbon neutral" or whatever, claims their was is "better" than other systems. It's not, it's just a different way of doing things.</p><p></p><p>Good luck to Trewithen for jumping on the current bandwagon but, like most carbon footprint claims, they miss out some big stuff in their blurb. Like what machinery the farms use, what imported feedstuffs the cows are fed and from Trewithen's side, how efficient their processes are, what the milk will be packaged in (polybottles, I presume) where the packaging is sourced from (some dairies make poly bottles on site, some buy them in from 100's miles away) and importantly, where the milk end user is.</p><p></p><p>The cows and the pasture might be super efficient in carbon terms but all that can easily be undone if the cows get S American soya and Asian PKE in their winter feed, the Dairy has to buy in plastic bottles from 200 miles away and then trucks the bottled milk to the South East to sell to "environmentally aware" consumers.</p><p></p><p>As I say, good luck to Trewithen,(everyone has to chase market share) but this scheme does remind me of Riverford Farm "organic" veg being trucked all over the Country by the artic lorry load</p><p></p><p>In my opinion British farming as a whole has nothing to be ashamed of in the way food is produced and should be proud of that, rather than cowtowing to ill informed public opinion</p><p></p><p>BTW, The Oxford figures are a total waste of time if the carbon footprint of transporting the products are not included.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="betweenthelines, post: 7776381, member: 45282"] I have a problem when anyone claims that their way of farming, be it "organic" "sustainable" "carbon neutral" or whatever, claims their was is "better" than other systems. It's not, it's just a different way of doing things. Good luck to Trewithen for jumping on the current bandwagon but, like most carbon footprint claims, they miss out some big stuff in their blurb. Like what machinery the farms use, what imported feedstuffs the cows are fed and from Trewithen's side, how efficient their processes are, what the milk will be packaged in (polybottles, I presume) where the packaging is sourced from (some dairies make poly bottles on site, some buy them in from 100's miles away) and importantly, where the milk end user is. The cows and the pasture might be super efficient in carbon terms but all that can easily be undone if the cows get S American soya and Asian PKE in their winter feed, the Dairy has to buy in plastic bottles from 200 miles away and then trucks the bottled milk to the South East to sell to "environmentally aware" consumers. As I say, good luck to Trewithen,(everyone has to chase market share) but this scheme does remind me of Riverford Farm "organic" veg being trucked all over the Country by the artic lorry load In my opinion British farming as a whole has nothing to be ashamed of in the way food is produced and should be proud of that, rather than cowtowing to ill informed public opinion BTW, The Oxford figures are a total waste of time if the carbon footprint of transporting the products are not included. [/QUOTE]
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