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<blockquote data-quote="puppet" data-source="post: 6508525" data-attributes="member: 25962"><p>I emailed their complaints department today and hundreds of you should too.</p><p></p><p></p><p>As a farmer I despair at the knee-jerk reaction to all beef consumption as being bad. I would have thought that a university may have looked more closely at the evidence. The report from last week's conference on Climate Change and Land Use stated that Agriculture accounted for 23% of global emissions but mitigated against 30% of emissions from burning fossil fuels and industry so a long way towards carbon neutral notwithstanding this was a global report so included deforestation to become pasture and the massive amounts of grain and soya fed to animals in Brazil or the USA.</p><p>In the UK most beef is fed grass with cereals only being used as a supplement in winter or in the final weeks before slaughter. The growing grass absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide in that process as well as converting methane. 80% of Scottish farmland is disadvantaged, being unable to grow crops other than grass but ruminants can convert carbon dioxide via grass to valuable protein. Ploughing up UK pasture would release massive amounts of carbon , increase the need for pesticides and fertilisers and lead to soil erosion at an alarming scale in the 6 winter months where the soil has no crop cover. </p><p>You should look at the source of the beef rather than a ban.</p><p>Perhaps you should ask why ANY students are using bottled water which is the most inefficient and damaging way to provide water and should therefore be banned. </p><p>You also state you only emit 3.7kg of CO2 which is surely a massive underestimate for the whole university</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="puppet, post: 6508525, member: 25962"] I emailed their complaints department today and hundreds of you should too. As a farmer I despair at the knee-jerk reaction to all beef consumption as being bad. I would have thought that a university may have looked more closely at the evidence. The report from last week's conference on Climate Change and Land Use stated that Agriculture accounted for 23% of global emissions but mitigated against 30% of emissions from burning fossil fuels and industry so a long way towards carbon neutral notwithstanding this was a global report so included deforestation to become pasture and the massive amounts of grain and soya fed to animals in Brazil or the USA. In the UK most beef is fed grass with cereals only being used as a supplement in winter or in the final weeks before slaughter. The growing grass absorbs massive amounts of carbon dioxide in that process as well as converting methane. 80% of Scottish farmland is disadvantaged, being unable to grow crops other than grass but ruminants can convert carbon dioxide via grass to valuable protein. Ploughing up UK pasture would release massive amounts of carbon , increase the need for pesticides and fertilisers and lead to soil erosion at an alarming scale in the 6 winter months where the soil has no crop cover. You should look at the source of the beef rather than a ban. Perhaps you should ask why ANY students are using bottled water which is the most inefficient and damaging way to provide water and should therefore be banned. You also state you only emit 3.7kg of CO2 which is surely a massive underestimate for the whole university [/QUOTE]
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