date:May 21, 2012
Macklin, national agriculture and food adviser at the National Trust, said: The results are contrary to recent thinking that livestock farming methods must intensify further in order to lessen carbon emissions to feed an ever-increasing world population.
Maximising carbon efficiency alone is too simplistic. Many less intensive livestock systems would be classed inefficient on the carbon emission scale, yet are much less reliant on artificial inputs and tend to have less impacts on water qualit