Brave moo world
Dairy firm launches database to slash damaging farm pollution
BRITAIN’S biggest dairy producer is creating a huge climate database in a bid to become the greenest on the planet.
Arla, owned by 2,300 UK farmers and thousands in Europe, wants to become carbon neutral by 2050.
The co-operative’s farmers will generate an individual eco-score by
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Experts will then visit each one to create a bespoke plan for how they can slash pollution levels.
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Senior director Graham Wilkinson said: “We want to ensure dairy has a sustainable future.” Boss Ash
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Amirahmadi added: “Whilst there is a lot of negative comment about the impact of food production, farmers are, in reality, the caretakers of the countryside.”
It follows Arla’s move to scrap use-by labels this year to stop people binning perfectly good milk.
Shoppers will be urged to use the sniff test to check if milk is off.
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Of course I worry about the planet. I’m just a little bit naive in what I should be doing. When Aljaz and I have kids I would like there to be a happy, healthy, living planet.