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Are farmers being targeted by all this talk about beef carbon footprints?

Are sensationalist headlines about the carbon footprint caused by beef are unhelpful to the conversation around climate change?

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17.06 7 Mar 2019


Are farmers being targeted by all this talk about beef carbon footprints?


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17.06 7 Mar 2019


Are sensationalist headlines about the carbon footprint caused by beef are unhelpful to the conversation around climate change?

The Irish Farmers Journal are saying that a lot of the figures don’t add up

To discuss, Ivan was joined now by Thomas Hubert, who is News Correspondent for the Irish Farmers Journal, and Pippa Hackett, Green Party representative for Laois-Offaly and a beef farmer herself.


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