"Is it really the case that the UK needs more grazing livestock not less?  The answer is emphatically no.  However the species variety needs to change, numbers must fall and the way they are managed must be modified dramatically. I fully realise it was part of a light hearted debate, but it is provocative. Professor Jude Capper should know better.  I am very surprised that someone at this academic level deliberately misleads her audience on the formation of soil in order to support their own misguided belief that they are guardians of the countryside."