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Hard cheese

WHICH sandwich filling causes the most climate change: chicken, cheese or peanut butter and jam? This riddle was put to the Oxford Farming Conference last week by Prof Sarah Bridle during the Frank Parkinson lecture. The answer was cheese, an illustration of the hard choices to be made

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