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EXCLUSIVE - George Dunn: "The road to Net Zero is paved with falsehoods and broken promises"

The TFA chief executive writes on anti-livestock falsehoods in climate change commentary, why Net Zero policy should be informed by evidence and truthful analysis, and why tenants have been taken for granted in solar farm schemes

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TFA chief executive George Dunn said: "It is alarming how many times throughout the carbon budget report that meat, dairy and aviation are grouped together in the same sentence. This is a wholly false comparison."
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TFA chief executive George Dunn said: "It is alarming how many times throughout the carbon budget report that meat, dairy and aviation are grouped together in the same sentence. This is a wholly false comparison."

There is no doubt that we are seeing and experiencing the impacts of climate change with more frequent extremes of weather and a general increase in average global temperatures year-on-year in recent times....

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