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Price and provenance: Does the UK have an appetite for eco-labels on food?

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Whether driven by animal welfare, health, or environmental concerns - or a combination of all three - more and more people are either becoming vegan and vegetarian or reducing their meat consumption and eating greater proportions of plant-based food. There can be little doubt diets are steadily changing in the UK.

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'Farming is going to have to change': NFU President Minette Batters on net zero, changing diets, and Brexit

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million tonnes of annual emissions since 2008. That rotation of grass and livestock grazing, and the muck that they put back into the soil, is what sustains all biodiversity. Meat alternatives and plant-based proteins. If you remove livestock from the system, you then become reliant on chemical fertilisers," she contends.

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