Cow Poke?

George Monbiot suggests many folk grow up with a largely bucolic view of livestock farming. He points out that, in actuality, 'livestock farming ranks with the fossil fuel industry as one of the most (environmentally) destructive industries on Earth'. The current focus of his concern is a successful British film called 'Six Inches of Soil' (https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/apr/15/beef-farm-eco-friendly-film-documentary-livestock). Bizarrely, Monbiot notes that b>'Six Inches of Soil' is made by environmentalists, rather than (as one might have predicted) the meat industry. It 'purports' to show the owner of a Cornish cattle farm, helping to limit climate change. The achieves this, by growing hedges and woodland around/within his fields. The claim is made that the farmer removes more 'greenhouse gases' from the atmosphere, than he actually emits. Monbiot refutes this as a 'highly misleading'statement. A further claim, that one farmer made even larger annual emissions savings, by increasing the carbon content of his soil, is also dismissed as 'unlikely' and largely unsubstantiated. Monbiot maintains that all the current evidence shosw that replacing fields for livestock with woodland would produce the biggest increase in sequestration (removal from the atmosphere, with storage) of carbon dioxide. It's distinctly odd, that some environmentalists are attempting to challenge this truism. It seems you can't have your steak and eat it?