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Grass-based organic livestock essential in less-meat future to slow climate change
To counter growing anti-livestock sentiment—some from groups claiming that grain-fed beef has a lower carbon footprint than the solar-powered, grass-based and more ruminant friendly version—the Soil Association argues forcefully that a mixed organic system is the best option.
“On climate change and human health grounds we need to eat less meat, but the focus for reduction must be on [reducing] intensively produced white meat (chicken and pork), and grain fed beef, while we eat proportionately more grass-reared beef, lamb and mutton,” said the UK’s leading organic certification, research and advocacy group today in a briefing paper released at the UN’s Climate Change Summit in Copenhagen.
“Mixed farming,” using grassland in rotation to build fertility for arable crops, provides the best means of taking carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and replenishing the soil carbon bank, said the SA.
Full story: Soil Association
