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Science finds simple way to make lamb leaner
Scientists based at Rothamsted and the University of Bristol Veterinary School have found a clear link between the weight of lambs early in their life and meat quality – which is good news for consumers, farmers, and the environment.
Currently, 35 per cent of lambs going to market have meat that is considered too fatty, but this new study, published in the journal Animal, shows that it’s the lambs which are heaviest at the point of weaning – when they switch from their mother’s milk to grazing – that go on to produce the leanest, most sought-after meat at market.
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Cutting meat from our daily routines has been widely proposed as a surefire way of reducing our impact on climate change. The rearing of livestock is seen as a major source of greenhouse gasses through the use of land, feed production and transportation of meat products. In January this year, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) proposed reducing our intake of dairy and meat products by one-fifth could save the equivalent of seven million tonnes of CO2 from farms.
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Study Shows No-Meat Diet is not a Blanket Solution to the Climate Crisis
Written by AZoCleantechDec 17 2020
People living in industrialized regions such as Europe or the United States are often encouraged to consume less meat and animal-based foods to ensure a healthier diet that is lower in emissions.
Livestock being fed improved forages in Tanzania. Image Credit: Georgina Smith/International Center for Tropical Agriculture.
However, such suggestions are not versatile solutions in low- or middle-income countries, where livestock are vital to incomes and diets, debate researchers in a study published recently in
Environmental Research Letters.
Conclusions drawn in widely publicized reports argue that a main solution to the climate and human health crisis globally is to eat no or little meat but they are biased towards industrialized, Western systems.