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<blockquote data-quote="betweenthelines" data-source="post: 7794961" data-attributes="member: 45282"><p>Carbon footprint figures are quite meaningless as they can be calculated in numerous ways to support any particular viewpoint you want.</p><p></p><p>For example a grazing herd in the westcountry on OAD milking with little or no winter housing will have a lot smaller footprint than a housed herd fed a lot of imported concs and milked 3x day. If you want to portray dairy farming in a bad light, quote the latter and ignore the former.</p><p></p><p>If you want to put fake milk in a good light, you just quote figures related to growing the nuts etc and ignore the high transport footprint.</p><p></p><p></p><p>There's also the question of how deep you dig into things. If the cows are fed silage, you can include the CF of the manufacture of all the machinery etc-tractors, foragers additives, plastic sheeting etc. You would, by the same token, chose to ignore the CF of turning a desert into cropping land-cultivations, irrigation set up etc etc.</p><p></p><p>Someone once said "there are lies, damned lies and statistics." Well Carbon footprint figures can be added to the list</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="betweenthelines, post: 7794961, member: 45282"] Carbon footprint figures are quite meaningless as they can be calculated in numerous ways to support any particular viewpoint you want. For example a grazing herd in the westcountry on OAD milking with little or no winter housing will have a lot smaller footprint than a housed herd fed a lot of imported concs and milked 3x day. If you want to portray dairy farming in a bad light, quote the latter and ignore the former. If you want to put fake milk in a good light, you just quote figures related to growing the nuts etc and ignore the high transport footprint. There's also the question of how deep you dig into things. If the cows are fed silage, you can include the CF of the manufacture of all the machinery etc-tractors, foragers additives, plastic sheeting etc. You would, by the same token, chose to ignore the CF of turning a desert into cropping land-cultivations, irrigation set up etc etc. Someone once said "there are lies, damned lies and statistics." Well Carbon footprint figures can be added to the list [/QUOTE]
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