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Eating less beef key to meeting EU climate targets: study
Monday, February 22, 2016 17:35
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Stockholm (AFP) – EU climate targets won't be met unless greenhouse gas emissions linked to beef and dairy consumption are dramatically reduced, a Swedish study published on Monday said.
“Reductions, by 50 percent or more, in ruminant meat (beef and mutton) consumption are, most likely, unavoidable if the EU targets are to be met,” according to the findings published in the Food Policy journal.
But Stefan Wirsenius, one of the authors of the study written by researchers from Chalmers University of Technology and the SP Technical Research Institute, said there was no need to give up meat completely. “Poultry and pork cause quite low emissions,” he said …. http://news.yahoo.com
Source: http://luismmx.blogspot.com/2016/02/eating-less-beef-key-to-meeting-eu.html
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