Farming Matters – "Meat is not the enemy – stop blaming the cow and start fixing the system"

By Dr Jason Aldiss, executive director of AIMS, president of the Union of European Veterinary Hygienists and Master of the York Guild of Butchers writes about the misinformation surrounding meat production and climate change

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Farming Matters – "Meat is not the enemy – stop blaming the cow and start fixing the system"

In the debate around climate change, few sectors have become as vilified as livestock farming. Popularised by social media influencers and zealots with anti-meat agendas, the notion that meat production...

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