suffolk wrote:As I’ve said before, we buy local higher welfare meat whenever we can. I know that welfare standards for commercially raised pigs in the UK are better than almost anywhere else in the world. I think I would rather not eat meat at all than buy it from some of the countries we are likely to be forced to deal with ... and for those of you who know me as a committed nose to tail carnivore, you’ll realise the strength of my feelings on the subject.
the increase in CO2 emissions would be egregious.
A 100g box of blueberries grown locally or imported via ship will produce around 100g of carbon dioxide. If it’s flown in, that increases by ten times, pushing its carbon footprint up to more like 1kg.
“If you want to go into the high carbon footprint foods then once it’s been air freighted you’re in real trouble. That’s when the food miles absolutely soar in terms of emissions. We should have a blanket ban on air freight,” said Professor Reay.
You don’t see the paywall papers KK
According to government data, buying a tomato grown in the UK has three times the footprint of a tomato grown in Spain.
dennispc wrote:Scullion, a massive thank you for the link on differences between methane and carbon gas emissions. I’ve been looking for something like that for (seemingly) a long time for one of our coffee mornings.According to government data, buying a tomato grown in the UK has three times the footprint of a tomato grown in Spain.
I wish such articles gave a reference, but I’ll go looking. Just as I’ve been looking at how governments obtain the figures in the first place, it ain’t easy. I remember reading a blog that insisted countries only counted carbon emissions whilst a plane was within its borders. Thus a plane flying from New York to London (say) wouldn’t include the Atlantic bit until entering UK airspace. Do the same for ships and the carbon emitted is massively under recorded.
Back to bacon. Don’t eat a lot and get it from a butcher who only buys in local meat and makes his own sausages.
If demand for bacon increases from UK consumers, then presumably producers would be happy to reduce transport costs to serve the UK market.
I don’t plan on buying American meat, too many antibiotics, growth hormones and so on.
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