| Comment | Difficult to find these figures.
From what I can see approximately 35% of our beef is imported, but I think it needn’t be, we export loads of it too.
But if you’re eating British beef you can expect it’s grass fed except for when there’s extremes of weather. Why? Well, because The UK climate is great for growing grass. Farmers want profit so they’re not going to buy feed when the cows are better off eating grass.
I looked it up and 65% of farmland in the UK is best suited to growing grass rather than other crops. If we did not graze livestock on it, we could not use it to produce food. It makes no sense for a country to go after it’s own food supply when there’s other options to target.
We need to not forget that the grass is a bit uptaker of carbon. It’s a myth that the beef industry is a huge carbon polluter.
What is laughable is that the uk governments solution to a problem that doesn’t exist seems to be to import beef from New Zealand. I don’t think anyone can claim that rearing beef literally across the world and then transporting it here is somehow better for the environment than rearing our own beef here! |
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