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<blockquote data-quote="Grass And Grain" data-source="post: 7924822" data-attributes="member: 23184"><p>Sources of GHG emissions...</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://weeatbalanced.com/sustainability/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>Go to the homepage for articles on B12, importance of dairy in diets etc.</p><p></p><p>Ask the teacher what he/she is going to do with the 18 million tonnes of rapeseed meal which is left over after human consumption oil has been extracted? Same with the palm kernel, citrus pulp, sunflower expeller, soyabean meal (post oil removal), maize gluten, brewers grains, distillers grains, vivergo distillers grains, sugar beet pulp, bread waste, wheat feed, molasses, damaged potato, etc. Write to him/her, and ask if they have a suggestion for a more sustainable and carbon friendly use than feeding to animals to convert to high quality protein. Ask for it to be under 1,000 words. Give him/her some work to do.</p><p></p><p>Ask how they are going to suggest a system which is more carbon friendly than carbon sequestrating grassland for meat production in most of Scotland, Wales, NY Moors, Yorkshire Dales, Peak district, County Durham, most of West Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, parts of Shropshire and Herefordshire, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Northamptonshire clays, river basins, floodplain grasses, half of Staffordshire, etc.</p><p></p><p>Ask him/her where the livestock production carbon emissions came from. i.e. you don't create carbon, but only change it's form, so the grass/feed must have photosynthesised it from CO2 in the first place. Ask the school to ask their chemistry and biology departments of they think carbon can have been created by livestock agriculture. Can they show their workings. Where did the carbon come from? Ask them to prove livestock farming creates carbon.</p><p></p><p>Also ask them how long methane stays in the atmosphere before it is broken down.</p><p></p><p>Also ask them which soils have the largest carbon store. Cropping and intensive veg land, or grassland? Ask them to quantify this in tonnes of carbon, and therefore how much total carbon is stored in UK arable soils vs UK grassland livestock producing soils.</p><p></p><p>Ask them why they've picked on carbon emissions from livestock farming? Ask them why they haven't mentioned alcohol production? You know all those barley fields they see, most of it goes to produce alcohol, it ferments and produces CO2, and it's a completely unnecessary dietary nutrient. Do they not think they should have mentioned this when taking about cutting carbon emissions from food/drink production?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Grass And Grain, post: 7924822, member: 23184"] Sources of GHG emissions... [URL unfurl="true"]https://weeatbalanced.com/sustainability/[/URL] Go to the homepage for articles on B12, importance of dairy in diets etc. Ask the teacher what he/she is going to do with the 18 million tonnes of rapeseed meal which is left over after human consumption oil has been extracted? Same with the palm kernel, citrus pulp, sunflower expeller, soyabean meal (post oil removal), maize gluten, brewers grains, distillers grains, vivergo distillers grains, sugar beet pulp, bread waste, wheat feed, molasses, damaged potato, etc. Write to him/her, and ask if they have a suggestion for a more sustainable and carbon friendly use than feeding to animals to convert to high quality protein. Ask for it to be under 1,000 words. Give him/her some work to do. Ask how they are going to suggest a system which is more carbon friendly than carbon sequestrating grassland for meat production in most of Scotland, Wales, NY Moors, Yorkshire Dales, Peak district, County Durham, most of West Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria, parts of Shropshire and Herefordshire, Dartmoor, Exmoor, Northamptonshire clays, river basins, floodplain grasses, half of Staffordshire, etc. Ask him/her where the livestock production carbon emissions came from. i.e. you don't create carbon, but only change it's form, so the grass/feed must have photosynthesised it from CO2 in the first place. Ask the school to ask their chemistry and biology departments of they think carbon can have been created by livestock agriculture. Can they show their workings. Where did the carbon come from? Ask them to prove livestock farming creates carbon. Also ask them how long methane stays in the atmosphere before it is broken down. Also ask them which soils have the largest carbon store. Cropping and intensive veg land, or grassland? Ask them to quantify this in tonnes of carbon, and therefore how much total carbon is stored in UK arable soils vs UK grassland livestock producing soils. Ask them why they've picked on carbon emissions from livestock farming? Ask them why they haven't mentioned alcohol production? You know all those barley fields they see, most of it goes to produce alcohol, it ferments and produces CO2, and it's a completely unnecessary dietary nutrient. Do they not think they should have mentioned this when taking about cutting carbon emissions from food/drink production? [/QUOTE]
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