VQ Pasture for Life cattle are more environmentally friendly because no fields are given over to growing food to feed them, foods like soya and maize which are grown in fields that require fertilisers, pesticides and weed killers (The first genetically engineered seeds were soya and the purpose was to make the crop resistant to the weed killers used on competing growth) nor does this food have to be transported many miles in lorries and ships. No fertilsers, pesticides or herbicides go on the land which PFL animals graze, again much better for the environment and since all fertilisers, insecticides etc produce emissions in manufacture, once again this makes this way of feeding animals more environmentally sensitive.
Because PFL animals only eat grass and hay, the food they are adapted to eat, rather than soya and maize, which their bodies struggle to digest, yes, they do produce less gas.
Unlike soya and maize fed cattle they are healthier, and need less vetinary attention and are not routinely fed antibiotics, which make their way through them into the human food chain, making a major contribution to the problem of bacterial infections becomng resistant to the normal run of antibiotics.
PFL being environementally freindly, is not just a question of cow farts. It is what they eat, where it comes from, the production and use of fertilisers and insecticides and weed killers, how all those things are transported.
The meat I buy comes from downland that has no weedkillers or fertilsers put on it. The sward is rich with wildflowers and these attract butterflies and birds. It is win win all round.
Like 25 AValon I do not want to go vegetarian or vegan, but smaller quantities of good meat from cattle reared in a way that enables them to enjoy their life in a way they have done for thousands of years, is the best of both worlds