https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/b09w0vhz 07:50, ‘Ive got some pasture fed organic beef’ Monbiot :– ‘Big mistake, almost the most destructive industry of all’
Surely the greenhouse gasses generated by pasture fed organic beef are, by definition, part of the carbon cycle. If there is no use of artificial fertilizers, then the nutrition from grass can only have come from carbon sequestration. In agronomic terms organic systems recycle atmospheric carbon, they do not add to it.
In mixed organic systems the meat producing grassland accrues surplus fertility for crop production; i.e. pasture fed organic beef sequesters more carbon than it uses and has a negative carbon footprint.
Surely the greenhouse gasses generated by pasture fed organic beef are, by definition, part of the carbon cycle. If there is no use of artificial fertilizers, then the nutrition from grass can only have come from carbon sequestration. In agronomic terms organic systems recycle atmospheric carbon, they do not add to it.
In mixed organic systems the meat producing grassland accrues surplus fertility for crop production; i.e. pasture fed organic beef sequesters more carbon than it uses and has a negative carbon footprint.
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