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Beef Cattle and Sheep (Carbon Footprint)

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for giving way. Like me, he was a farmer before first entering the House and as farmers we are used to getting the blame for a lot of things. There are certainly environmental consequences to certain farming practices, but does he share my disbelief that farmers are in the dock for—of all things—causing climate change and being responsible for it, given that we all know that the real problems with carbon come from the transport sector, energy generation and general industrialisation rather than from farming?

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
565 c106WH 
Session
2013-14
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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