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

Business Green

million tonnes of annual emissions since 2008. Agriculture would need to shift some of its focus away from rearing livestock towards tree planting, peatland restoration, improving soil quality, flood protection, and growing crops for bioenergy, it said, with 30,000-50,000 hectares of afforestation required every year to help capture carbon.

Soil 101
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Price and provenance: Does the UK have an appetite for eco-labels on food?

Business Green

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.

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Why technology could make animals obsolete

AFN Sustainable Protein

In 2008, Blockbuster’s CEO declared that ‘Netflix wasn’t even on the radar’ in terms of competition. Environmental : Plant-based products are also going to have trouble escaping problems and criticism faced by conventional agriculture, which include monocropping, chemical and fertilizer use, and top-soil depletion. References. [1]