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Edible entomological environmentalism

This should get you out into the garden. If you don’t want to get your hands dirty, you can buy a half dozen chocolate coated ants or worms at Fortnum and Mason’s for a mere £7.

Livestock-related greenhouse gas emissions: impacts and options for policy-makers

Agricultural Systems Paper on beef

Pelletier N, Pirog R, Rasmussen R (2010). "Comparative life cycle environmental impacts of three beef production strategies in the Upper Midwestern United States", Agricultural Systems 103 (2010) 380–389 This paper compares three US beef rearing systems. Cattle are finished either in: feedlot systems (having received hormone implants); backgrounding systems (also with hormone implants); or on pasture (no implants).

Livestock feed and food security. Source: UNFPA

Livestock, feed and food security

This briefing paper explores some of the arguments surrounding the relationship between what we feed and how we rear farm animals, and the availability and accessibility of food for human consumption.

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Animal feed, livestock and greenhouse gas emissions: What are the issues?

This paper, presented at the Society of Animal Feed Technologists in January 2007, examines the contribution that livestock make to greenhouse gas emissions, and the options for emissions reduction, focusing mainly on emissions from beef and dairy systems.