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Farming Today: Study compares greenhouse gas emissions from lab grown meat with meat from farms

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Study compares greenhouse gas emissions from lab grown meat with meat from farms

BBC Radio 4 - Farming Today, Study compares greenhouse gas emissions from lab grown meat with meat from farms

Could meat from the farm be more environmentally friendly than meat grown in a lab?

Could meat from the farm actually be more environmentally friendly than meat grown in a lab? And we hear how a large cheese producer is preparing for Brexit.

Meat grown in a laboratory is often talked about as a potential solution to producing food with a lower environmental impact than raising animals. A new study has looked at both systems to compare the amount of greenhouse gases they produce, and the findings are not clear-cut. 
All this week we are talking Brexit and agriculture and despite the uncertainty, a cheese producer in Somerset is still making plans to grow his business.
And in one part of Wiltshire, a traditional way of encouraging new pasture and warming up the land involves flooding it with river water. It's called drowning the meadows.

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