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The climate cost of beef starts with what cattle eat, how they grow and what happens to their manure, with decisions across the production chain shaping the emissions behind every kilogram of meat. A study from Henan Agricultural University, ‘Exploring the carbon footprint of Chinese beef systems – a life-cycle assessment, decoupling analysis and spatial effects,’ published in Frontiers in Sustainable Food Systems, examines those connections across China’s beef industry. Researchers Xianghui Yin, Shiqin Sun, Jiangge Wang and Tengyun Gao analysed data from 2002 to 2022, finding that large farms produced beef with a smaller carbon footprint per kilogram. Their…
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