Monday, April 5, 2010

Yep, Being First is Good!

For whom though??

The "carbon footprint" for New Zealand lamb eaten in Britain has been estimated as equivalent to 1.9kg of carbon dioxide, for each 100gm serving of lamb - 80 percent of that generated by farmers and their livestock on-farm.

The New Zealand study by AgResearch and released today by meat companies, is the first published carbon footprint to cover the entire life cycle from farm, through to cooking and eating the meat, and the disposal of waste and sewage.
& are AgResearch to be lauded, or to be damned?
Are they intellectual sayers or self-righteous savagers of our export markets?
& who pays for such expertise??

3 comments:

Oswald Bastable said...

I hate to think how much CO2 is produced when I feed my boys beans!

It's more measured in decibels than grams...

mojo said...

Methane, Os.

mojo said...

Is the combustible.