A FEW years in the past, I wrote a function story that has turn out to be, not less than in New Scientist circles, the quintessential instance of my position because the harbinger of doom. It was concerning the stunning environmental influence of cheese, particularly its colossal methane and carbon hoofprint. The reactions from my colleagues had been variations on “I don’t need to know”.
I’m now able to turn out to be a harbinger of fine information. Earlier this month, I went to a convention organised by Compassion in World Farming, and others, the place I met a farmer known as David Finlay. He runs a creamery in Galloway, …