But there were lacunae in the programme that, if they were noticeable to novices in the field such as me, probably needed to be addressed to stave off much more criticism from experts (or water-muddying by trolls). Liz Bonnin is set to investigate a shocking environmental crisis in a new TV show on the meat industry.

Following on from 2018’s award-winning Drowning In Plastic, science and wildlife presenter Liz Bonnin is travelling around the world to investigate the impact that our hunger for meat … I was already eating very little meat and was conscious of buying organic, grass-fed meat, but now I’ve stopped eating red meat altogether and I can see myself getting into complete vegetarianism pretty soon.

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We see wrapped portions of meat on a super-market shelf and we don’t think about what it takes to put it there. Grown harpy eagles can break a human arm and probably should. I thought I already knew a lot about the role the Amazon’s ecosystems played but I had totally underestimated it. Going to an intensive pig farm and seeing all those pigs in the barn, that did it for me.

Hollyoaks spoilers FRIDAY FAVOURITES rewinds to 2003 where there’s drama at Izzy Davies’ hen do. In a powerful new BBC1 documentary, Meat: A Threat to Our Planet, presenter and animal biologist Liz Bonnin investigates the effects our meat consumption is having on … But treated or not, when the lagoons overflow the runoff pollutes the entire local water table, causing algal blooms that turn streams into open sewers teeming with E coli and other unhelpful things.

LB: “Seeing the destruction of the Amazon rainforest first hand and fully realising just what a huge impact it is having. Eating less meat is something we can all do to help make a difference.”, Meat: A Threat To Our Planet, presented by Liz Bonnin, is on Monday 25 Nov, 9pm, BBC1, Doctor Foster spin off Life: start date, pictures, cast, and all you need to know, Alison Steadman and Peter Davison on Life: ‘Ordinary lives explode!’, Call the Midwife 2020 Christmas Special – Start date, cast, and plot. Or perhaps your growing feeling of disquiet did not resolve into certainty until you heard a few figures – such as that methane is a greenhouse gas 30 times more powerful than carbon dioxide. Entire species are thought to be going extinct before they’ve even been discovered. Shame on us! One pig farmer, Tom Butler, is converting his hog waste into biogas. Welcome to the official Liz Bonnin website . Presenter and animal biologist, Liz Bonnin, explores the devastating effect our meat eating habits are having on our planet…. Liz Bonnin has said she stopped eating red meat after making a BBC documentary about the impact of meat production on the planet. Liz Bonnin: “In the last 50 years the global cattle population has increased by 400 million, the number of pigs has doubled and the number of chickens has increased five-fold, and all to keep up with our meat-eating demands. Early life and education. It is illegal to stun a chicken with a manual blow to the head before killing it in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Bonnin was – and it’s hard not to say rightly – appalled. It was staggering to see.”, LB: “There are 4.7 billion of us on the planet.

Available for everyone, funded by readers. Home and Away spoilers: WHAT is Mackenzie Booth’s dilemma? Or you may have waited for the scenes in Texas, where beef is considered such a basic commodity that eateries abound that offer free 5lb steaks (just over two kilos) if you can down all of yours in one sitting. You can mentally delete the question mark from Meat: A Threat to Our Planet? It was the size of 250 football pitches and I met the boss who owns ten feedyards in total, each one taking in 50,000 cattle every six months. WHAT IS ON TONIGHT? The meat industry currently produces more greenhouse gas emissions that warm our planet than ALL our global transport put together.

Emmerdale spoilers! In the Amazon region, cattle-rearing is now the main driver of deforestation (the land, according to the programme, was cleared at the rate of five football pitches a minute last summer) and the president of Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, is encouraging more of the lucrative practice.

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Across the planet we consume a staggering 65 billion animals a year.