Professor Hannah Daly:

If I may raise one more study that was published recently that I co-authored. It was led by Dr. Colm Duffy from the University of Galway. The paper raises the question that often the narrative of Ireland's expansion is on the basis of our contribution to global food security and the feeding the world narrative. This paper also questions temperature neutrality as a basis for our carbon budgets. It shows that this narrative of food security is not founded in evidence because the trade between high-carbon livestock systems is largely among already developed countries where food security is not an issue. Also, it is particularly hypocritical to claim a greater share of the global methane space on the basis of the contribution to food security when that is not grounded in evidence.