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Letter: For the record – 7 December 2019

Published 4 December 2019

• Meat and dairy production accounts for 85 per cent of the UK’s total agricultural footprint, in the UK and elsewhere (26 October, p 24).

• When Scottish greyface ewes are injected with male levels of testosterone, it is their daughters that show the symptoms of polycystic ovary syndrome (23 November, p 16).

Issue no. 3259 published 7 December 2019

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