Richard Godwin: Should We All Go Vegan if it Will Save the Planet?

Evening Standard ^ | Wednesday 17 February 2016 | RICHARD GODWIN

[ChildOfThe60s]

Morons

[9422WMR]

Save the planet from what?

[nickcarraway]

Aliens? Bloodthirsty vegan aliens?

[bill1952]

“should we all go vegan?”

Liberalspeak for “ how do we force everyone to go vegan at the point of a gun?”

[OttawaFreeper]

How about go vegan when Algore and Leonardo quit flying?

[Dr. Sivana]

Should We All Go Vegan if it Will Save the Planet?

Nah. It was a nice run while it lasted.

[Cletus.D.Yokel]

An interesting perspective, but...

Plants consume CO2. If more plant life is consumed and metabolized, more CO2 will be freed into the atmosphere causing Climate Change (see my tagline) to accelerate.

There is little difference in metabolizing (aka: burning) plant matter in our bodies and the wider burning of hydrocarbons (aka: petro-fuel).

[Pollster1]

I love these articles, since I allow myself an extra steak every time I see one. It’ll be t-bone tonight!

[goodwithagun]

I’m vegan and I don’t care about globull warming. It’s actually kind of fun telling liberals that.

[dfwgator]

No! Next question!

[Opinionated Blowhard]

At the banquet, the star of The Revenant demanded his own special menu and busied himself with an aubergine tian, a quinoa salad and a coconut creme bralace with fresh raspberries.

He also flies around in a private jet and sails around on a private yacht. He is out at night clubs every night riding around in limousines. If you believe this Global Warming BS, that's all worse than eating a piece of meat for dinner.

[Fungi]

Therefore do not let anyone judge you by what you eat or drink, or with regard to a religious festival, a New Moon celebration or a Sabbath day. Coll. 2:16. This is not about "saving" the planet. It is about control by the intolerant Nazi left.

[nickcarraway]

Will you eat honey?

[musicman]

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[Byron_the_Aussie]

[Secret Agent Man]

You can murder your baby if it’s inconvenient.

You cannot eat commercially raised animal meat to feed yourself however.

Living under liberals is despotically evil.

[heights]

Why don’t leftist all commit suicide, that would work even better..

[needmorePaine]

Which leads us to a more profound question. Will change come by millions of individuals choosing to alter their habits? Or would we be better off investing in collective action? For there are surely legislative avenues that could be explored -- carbon and water taxes, sustainability incentives, advertising restrictions -- as well as vested interests that could be challenged. Change is cultural, true, but there's no surer way of changing a culture than changing a law.

That's not to say that eating less meat isn't a worthwhile personal choice -- hey, no animal products were consumed in the lunch break of this column. But the problem with our obsessive emphasis on lifestyle is that it then becomes a matter of pure individualism. Of shopping. It means we judge and blame each other for ruining the planet while virtue-signalling our own meat-free consciences. And eating is political, just like everything else.

This guy can't wait to put a boot on someone's face.

[ThePatriotsFlag]

Amazing EGO people have thinking we are powerful enough to destroy the planet ... no sense of relativity. We are ants, nothing, not even specs recognizable. Put eating food up beside a massive volcanic eruption ... gimme a break folks!