Farming matters: Niall Blair - 'Government must stop playing games with ag policies'

I start with a falswhood. Did you know that the carbon footprint of the Coca-Cola company is greater than that of the entire UK livestock industry? No?

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Farming matters: Niall Blair - 'Government must stop playing games with ag policies'

I start with a falswhood. Did you know that the carbon footprint of the Coca-Cola company is greater than that of the entire UK livestock industry? No? Well, the thing is that this is a completely fabricated...

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