UN calls for tax on livestock
The Financial Times today reports on a new United Nations report, The State of Food and Agriculture, which recommends a tax on livestock emissions. The novel suggestion by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation to use taxation comes as campaigners focus on the impact on climate change of emissions of methane from cattle, sheep and [...]
India; please stop eating beef
India’s environment minister Jairam Ramesh has urged the West to stop eating beef. According to the Telegraph he said “The solution to cut emissions is to stop eating beef. It leads to emission of methane which is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide.” Most people in India are Hindu and believe that cows are [...]
Meat consumption continues to rise
The Worldwatch Institute reports this week that the production and consumption of meat is continuing to rise. Much of the increase is due to increased income in developing countries, as they aspire to live a life closer to ours. Let’s set a good example and show that eating large amounts of meat and dairy is [...]
UN calls for tax on livestock
19 February 2010
The Financial Times today reports on a new United Nations report, The State of Food and Agriculture, which recommends a tax on livestock emissions. The novel suggestion by the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation to use taxation comes as campaigners focus on the impact on climate change of emissions of methane from cattle, sheep and [...]
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India; please stop eating beef
21 November 2009
India’s environment minister Jairam Ramesh has urged the West to stop eating beef. According to the Telegraph he said “The solution to cut emissions is to stop eating beef. It leads to emission of methane which is 23 times more potent than carbon dioxide.” Most people in India are Hindu and believe that cows are [...]
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Meat consumption continues to rise
13 November 2009
The Worldwatch Institute reports this week that the production and consumption of meat is continuing to rise. Much of the increase is due to increased income in developing countries, as they aspire to live a life closer to ours. Let’s set a good example and show that eating large amounts of meat and dairy is [...]
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Friends of the Earth; eat meat and save the planet
11 November 2009
Friends of the Earth and Compassion in World Farming released a new report, Eating the Planet?, this week and celebrated that, according to their research “We can eat meat, ditch factory farming and save the planet”. FoE have always been a little shy about telling people they need to change the way they live, preferring [...]
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Do you know what’s in your hotdog?
04 November 2009
BBC3 aired the first of 3 programmes titled “Britain’s Really Disgusting Food” last night. The first programme uncovered the grisly truth behind meat products. As you can imagine, products such as hot dogs, burgers and even chicken kievs were found to contain a lot more than “meat” - some burgers were only 47% meat (the [...]
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Al Gore: no, I won’t go vegetarian
04 November 2009
Jeremy Paxman interviewed Al Gore on Newsnight last night, to ask him about Copenhagen but also about the changes he’s made in his own life to reduce his carbon footprint. Paxman asked “you suggest that tackling this problem will involve huge changes in human behaviour, how have you changed our behaviour?” Gore replied that he [...]
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