Posted on 01/25/2020 9:04:56 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
People should cut the amount of beef, lamb and dairy produce they eat by a fifth to combat climate change, a report says.
It says public bodies should lead the way by offering plant-based options with all meals.
But it says if people don’t cut consumption willingly, taxes on meat and dairy might be needed.
The report comes from the government’s official advisers, the Committee on Climate Change (CCC).
Its chief executive Chris Stark told BBC News: “We can't meet the government's 2050 Net Zero target without major changes in the way we use the land, the way we farm, and what we eat.”
The farming union NFU welcomed much of the report, although they oppose cuts in livestock - but some environmentalists believe it's too timid.
The document recommends a host of measures to cut greenhouse gas emissions from the countryside.
Others include increasing UK forestry cover from 13% to at least 17% by 2050, and restoring at least half of upland peat bogs.
But it’s the proposals for reducing consumption of dairy produce and red meat that are likely to draw attention.
The authors say reducing the amount of beef, lamb and dairy we eat by at least 20%, and reducing food waste by 20% would save the equivalent of seven million tonnes of CO2 from farms.
They say land that’s no longer needed for cattle and sheep could support trees crops to burn for energy.
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They may eat us.
Katy Perry likes dining at human flesh restaurants after all.
I will cut my meat intake by a fifth, of either vodka, rum, or whiskey.
Follow the Orthodox Christian fasting practices of no meat and dairy on Wednesdays and Fridays, seven weeks of Great Lent, the first 14 days of August, December 12 - 24 plus January 5, September 14, and August 29 and you’ll cut your meat consumption by a THIRD!
Steak. Its what’s for dinner.
That is, after I go to the gun range tomorrow.
We had a Slava feast today, with LOTS of meat and dairy!!!!
So Orthodox fasting (except for monastics and a few others) might be at least in part made up for by Slavas, Pascha, Nativity/Theophany, Pentecost, and other feast days. Many Orthodox also have relaxed fasting disciplines, on the advice of their priests, usually for health or family reasons. In any event, Orthodox fasting is a spiritual discipline, period!
“Global Warmist” “fasting” is a bunch of poppycock perpetrated by leftists and the mentally ill (e.g., Greta Thunberg). It may well be detrimental to one’s spiritual health. I imagine at least a few Orthodox priests have advised parishoners who are following such a “fast” to eat a steak dinner!!!!
Indeed.
We are to be more concerned with what issues from our mouths (or our fingers on a keyboard) than with what we place into our mouths....in all seasons.
Of course by controlling the latter we might have a little better success with the former.
Well my thoughts keep coming back to that reducing the human population by 95% thing. I am sure a lot of these creeps have high hopes for coronavirus.
I’ve long surmised that those slimy reptilians praying for a NWO would love nothing less than a massive pandemic wiping out 10 - 50% of the population.
They can make their next move from there.
Long live the Ruminants! Thanks, alloysteel for this beautiful explanation of why grazing cattle are so vital to healthy human life.
The Hindi culture valued ruminants so highly they made them sacred animals.
if they are so sacred that they can't be eaten then what is the point?
Good point. In that way, we think different than the Hindis.
I have wondered that for years, how long till the CO2 is taxed...
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