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Is cooking a roast lamb as bad for the environment as flying?

A listener got in touch with More or Less after hearing a surprising statistic: ‘producing a leg of lamb releases the same amount of Co2 as a transatlantic flight’ – does this spell the end of the lamb roast or are the figures a bit woolly? Tim Harford investigates.

First broadcast on More or Less, 29 September 2019.

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