{"id":375466,"date":"2025-04-17T09:00:11","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=375466"},"modified":"2025-04-17T09:00:12","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T07:00:12","slug":"no-beef-lamb-milk-and-cheese-within-25-years-under-net-zero-government-funded-report-confirms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=375466","title":{"rendered":"No Beef, Lamb, Milk and Cheese Within 25 Years Under Net Zero, Government-Funded Report Confirms"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From The Daily Sceptic<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0Chris Morrison<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Achieving Net Zero in 25 years would need a \u201ccomplete transformation\u201d of the UK\u2019s agricultural and food system that would in effect mean a diet devoid of beef, lamb and all dairy products, according to the latest work<\/a> from the Government-funded UK FIRES. Look at the research that governing elites commission and read, not what they say. UK FIRES takes an absolute view of Net Zero and bases its work on existing technologies, not the pie in the sky inventions still to come and the whacky schemes that cannot reach economic scale. UK FIRES is an influential body since it takes a rare honest approach to Net Zero. Among the horrors outlined in its latest report is a future reliance on highly-processed food \u2013 industrial test-tube sludge in other words. Using labs to produce just 0.4% of the projected demand for meat in 2030 would involve a capacity \u201c20 times that of the current pharmaceutical industry\u201d, observe the authors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The need to collapse the existing agro-food system is said to present opportunities for the creation of \u201chybrid\u201d food products. Animal fat, presumably from non-belching beasts, can be processed to give \u201cdefinitive flavour and mouth feel of meat\u201d and these can be combined with plant-based ingredients. Alternative proteins (not detailed, but there is much support elsewhere for fly larvae and mealworm flour) might be used in highly processed foods. In future, notes UK FIRES, processed plants might include ingredients from precision fermentation or cultivated fats. These are all held together by half of the chemistry lab including stabilisers, colourings, E numbers and preservatives \u2013 though UK FIRES inexplicably fails to give the detail on this. And not forgetting masses of salt and sugar, a common staple of so-called healthy processed foods designed to give them a semblance of pleasant taste.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Utterly disgusting \u2013 readers might prefer to lay in stocks of the dog\u2019s kibble as a healthier and more appetising alternative.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The land currently occupied by productive and generational farmers would see \u201cradical shifts\u201d. The required changes to achieve absolute Net Zero emissions from food systems \u201cwould present many opportunities\u201d, argues UK FIRES. There would be competition for \u201cenvironmental services\u201d and this presumably would include such \u201copportunities\u201d as nature-destroying wind turbines and solar dead zone parks. Rewilding and carbon capture or sequestration are mentioned. Planning and support for land use \u201ctransformation\u201d is said to be needed, and it is said to carry the promise of \u201clarge social and environmental benefits\u201d. At this point, it might be observed what a grand start the current anti-farmer Labour Government has made by slapping a recent 20% death tax on small family farms that are passed onto the next generation, or not as the case may now be. That should help clear a bit of space for the new enclosing aristocracy, the subsidy-hunting windmill rentiers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

UK FIRES is funded by a \u00a35 million Government grant and its team of academics is led by Professor Julian Allwood, Professor of Engineering and the Environment at Cambridge University. In the past, its absolutist work forecast a world where Britain would lose 75% of its energy<\/a>, where flying and shipping along with beef, lamb and dairy would be banned, while bricks, concrete and glass would almost cease to exist<\/a>. These are all reasonable forecasts if hydrocarbons are suddenly removed from a modern industrial mix. But the academics\u2019 brutal appraisals scare the horses at a time when the British Prime Minister is telling porkies that Net Zero will not affect people\u2019s lifestyles<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The message has probably gone out to tone it down a bit on the banning front, so the latest report on agricultural and food supply is more nuanced. So it is more that we can transform food supply, it will all be a great adventure and economic opportunities will be created everywhere \u2013 that sort of guff, straight out of the Ed Miliband songbook. Slashing farmland acreage but boosting pharma-food is supposedly meant to reassure, although such reassurance is unlikely to survive when confronted with reality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However as we have seen, the authors behind UK FIRES are Net Zero absolutists and the message is still that all greenhouses gases must be removed from agriculture. UK FIRES says this is a complete transformation, which is one way of describing a societal and economic disaster in the making. Artificial fertilisers which use hydrocarbons to add nitrogen to the soil have massively boosted crop yields around the world over the last few decades. Without their use, food supplies would halve, leading to mass starvation and death. With restrictions on the use of imported goods that have connections to hydrocarbons, Britons would gradually starve to death in their millions. Net Zero fanatics, which sadly include many British legislators, somehow draw other conclusions, the better we assume to sustain their virtuous egos.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile they are unlikely to be interested in the science around nitrous oxide, the gas produced by the fertiliser. It has warming properties, which in common with other greenhouse gases tend to \u2018saturate\u2019 at certain levels, a natural process in the infra-red spectrum that has helped regulate the Earth\u2019s climate over the last 600 million years. A recent paper from four distinguished scientists noted that the atmospheric concentration of N2<\/sub>O was only 0.34 parts per million (ppm) and it was growing at just 0.00085 ppm a year. The entire global food supply is being put at risk for warming identified by the scientists at 0.064\u00b0C per century<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly, the press release accompanying the UK FIRE report highlights the complete elimination of greenhouse gases from British agriculture by 2050, but the actual work fails to address a world without artificial fertiliser. This is somewhat surprising given the vast increases in plant vegetation that will be needed for the new food labs. A number of gas-eliminating technologies are mentioned but it is admitted that they are not currently feasible, while more precision fertiliser application is noted. As if this latter action has not already occurred to commercial farmers. The UK FIRES of old would have made a no-nonsense banning statement, but it seems the current authors, like most other Net Zero cranks, simply ignore the issue.  There is of course a good reason for doing this since there are no solutions, except human hunger.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chris Morrison is the<\/em> Daily Sceptic\u2019s<\/em> Environment Editor.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Achieving Net Zero in 25 years would need a \u201ccomplete transformation\u201d of the UK\u2019s agricultural and food system that would in effect mean a diet devoid of beef, lamb and all dairy products, according to the latest work from the Government-funded UK FIRES. Look at the research that governing elites commission and read, not what they say. UK FIRES takes an absolute view of Net Zero and bases its work on existing technologies, not the pie in the sky inventions still to come and the whacky schemes that cannot reach economic scale. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":375468,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691834571,691819134,691821234,691818088,691818154,691819496,691831729],"class_list":{"0":"post-375466","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-hybrid-food-products","9":"tag-climate-alarmism","10":"tag-farming","11":"tag-greenhouse-gases","12":"tag-net-zero","13":"tag-nitrogen-fertiliser","14":"tag-u-k-fires","16":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/0Screenshot-2025-04-15-224037.jpeg?fit=1574%2C878&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1zFU","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":362744,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=362744","url_meta":{"origin":375466,"position":0},"title":"Can The CAN","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"20\/01\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"The Climate and Nature Bill has its second reading this week. Its objective is to reduce UK emissions, including imported ones, to close to zero during the 2030s. Currently those emissions are around 800 Mt a year, and the implication is that they will have to be cut to around\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Net zero\"","block_context":{"text":"Net zero","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=net-zero"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0Zero-net-energy-buildings_-Achieving-Energy-Efficiency-Goals-in-Architecture-1920x1280-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0Zero-net-energy-buildings_-Achieving-Energy-Efficiency-Goals-in-Architecture-1920x1280-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0Zero-net-energy-buildings_-Achieving-Energy-Efficiency-Goals-in-Architecture-1920x1280-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0Zero-net-energy-buildings_-Achieving-Energy-Efficiency-Goals-in-Architecture-1920x1280-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/0Zero-net-energy-buildings_-Achieving-Energy-Efficiency-Goals-in-Architecture-1920x1280-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":349216,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=349216","url_meta":{"origin":375466,"position":1},"title":"Cut Meat and Dairy Consumption By 50%, Orders\u00a0CCC","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"28\/10\/2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Do they really think that people are so concerned about Net Zero that they will give up meat? Of course, we all know that when they say \u201cpersuade\u201d, they really mean \u201ccompel\u201d.","rel":"","context":"In \"Climate change\"","block_context":{"text":"Climate change","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-change"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/0dairy-and-meat.jpg?fit=1100%2C734&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/0dairy-and-meat.jpg?fit=1100%2C734&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/0dairy-and-meat.jpg?fit=1100%2C734&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/0dairy-and-meat.jpg?fit=1100%2C734&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/0dairy-and-meat.jpg?fit=1100%2C734&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":379524,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=379524","url_meta":{"origin":375466,"position":2},"title":"Scottish Meat Industry Fights Back Against CCC\u00a0Proposals","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"23\/05\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"For once somebody is standing up to the bullies in the Climate Change Committee, who seem to think they now run the UK.","rel":"","context":"In \"climate agenda\"","block_context":{"text":"climate agenda","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=climate-agenda"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2GF0fVoJawAACVF9.jpeg?fit=1200%2C757&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2GF0fVoJawAACVF9.jpeg?fit=1200%2C757&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2GF0fVoJawAACVF9.jpeg?fit=1200%2C757&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2GF0fVoJawAACVF9.jpeg?fit=1200%2C757&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/2GF0fVoJawAACVF9.jpeg?fit=1200%2C757&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":408314,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=408314","url_meta":{"origin":375466,"position":3},"title":"How Badly Climatists Attack\u00a0Meat","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"15\/10\/2025","format":false,"excerpt":"And this is where green ideology longs to be. Consequently, greens have urged us to give up meat, telling us of the harm done to nature by our diets. They have urged us to cut down, to become vegetarian or vegan. Or to switch to other forms of protein. No\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"BBC\"","block_context":{"text":"BBC","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=bbc"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMMG4iG5qz7AIlGDuoP0SjJLgO_uvwyKJILQ7G4TGMc3QHQBKA7FwU4grs1zwJ2cVqQUYhvzFG46V8lcY1zvkGKbgF0iWM87ll6NLKReHlD4xGgFSOYfkxUG9elENGO-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMMG4iG5qz7AIlGDuoP0SjJLgO_uvwyKJILQ7G4TGMc3QHQBKA7FwU4grs1zwJ2cVqQUYhvzFG46V8lcY1zvkGKbgF0iWM87ll6NLKReHlD4xGgFSOYfkxUG9elENGO-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMMG4iG5qz7AIlGDuoP0SjJLgO_uvwyKJILQ7G4TGMc3QHQBKA7FwU4grs1zwJ2cVqQUYhvzFG46V8lcY1zvkGKbgF0iWM87ll6NLKReHlD4xGgFSOYfkxUG9elENGO-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMMG4iG5qz7AIlGDuoP0SjJLgO_uvwyKJILQ7G4TGMc3QHQBKA7FwU4grs1zwJ2cVqQUYhvzFG46V8lcY1zvkGKbgF0iWM87ll6NLKReHlD4xGgFSOYfkxUG9elENGO-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/0AQMMG4iG5qz7AIlGDuoP0SjJLgO_uvwyKJILQ7G4TGMc3QHQBKA7FwU4grs1zwJ2cVqQUYhvzFG46V8lcY1zvkGKbgF0iWM87ll6NLKReHlD4xGgFSOYfkxUG9elENGO-1.jpeg?fit=1200%2C800&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":255024,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=255024","url_meta":{"origin":375466,"position":4},"title":"Absolute Zero plan means no new normal cars, most airports gone, and half the beef by 2030!","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"28\/04\/2023","format":false,"excerpt":"The realities of Net Zero are also hitting home for the general public. The threat that the project represents to livelihoods and liberties is becoming more evident by the day.","rel":"","context":"In \"energy policy\"","block_context":{"text":"energy policy","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=energy-policy"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0net-zero-istock-1190148959-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C761&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0net-zero-istock-1190148959-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C761&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0net-zero-istock-1190148959-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C761&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0net-zero-istock-1190148959-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C761&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/0net-zero-istock-1190148959-1.jpg?fit=1200%2C761&ssl=1&resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":440634,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=440634","url_meta":{"origin":375466,"position":5},"title":"New Food Pyramid: Another Blow to Climate Activism","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"20\/04\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"Once again, the self-interest of consumers in a free economy is at odds with the agenda of the Climate Industrial Complex. And with the decline in interest and sales of fake meat (Beyond Meat is a penny stock, down 99 percent) the political problem of the eco-busybodies is profound.","rel":"","context":"In \"Beyond Meat stock ($BYND)\"","block_context":{"text":"Beyond Meat stock ($BYND)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=beyond-meat-stock-bynd"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0-Eat-Real-Food-pyramid.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0-Eat-Real-Food-pyramid.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0-Eat-Real-Food-pyramid.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0-Eat-Real-Food-pyramid.jpg?fit=784%2C1168&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/121246920"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=375466"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":375470,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375466\/revisions\/375470"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/375468"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=375466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=375466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=375466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}