Why eating grass-fed beef isn't going to help fight climate change

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Tara Garnett explores new research that confirms grazing livestock - even in a best-case scenario - are net contributors to the climate problem

Beef gets a bad press, environmentally speaking. We're bombarded with reports highlighting its high carbon footprint accompanied by images of belching cows and devastated rainforests. But is all beef...

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