Re: Taste preference begins early

On Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:43:21 +0000, Trinkwasser
<spam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

TBH I'm not sure, I mean sheep here are about the only crop you can
take off some of our hills and mountains, except for grouse, and the
lowland sheep are predominantly grazed with only some "concentrate"
feed in winter and for final fattening, but they then have to be
trucked around the country for slaughter, and in some places they're
trucked down from the mountains to the lowland for "finishing".

Presumably the carbon footprint comes mainly from the transport and
the processing/freezing.

Yeah. Lamb I eat lives on the hills above Hadleigh, and goes to a
butcher in Long Melford for slaughtering and dressing before I go and
pick it up. Total transport miles is approximately 50; no freezing
involved until I get home.

But even if I get, say, Welsh lamb from Tescos, that gets distributed
via a depot in Milton Keynes or somewhere similar - that's going to be
a couple of hundred miles, rather than thousands. Even the NZ lamb
coming in to the dock has to make the journey to the distributor and
out again, whatever its green credentials coming in by boat.

Nicky.
T2 dx 05/04 + underactive thyroid
D&E, 100ug thyroxine
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