Showing posts with label Meat. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Meat. Show all posts

Sunday, September 7, 2008

Wanna save the planet from global warming? Eat less meat!


No joke! Read this excerpt.

People should consider eating less meat as a way of combating global warming, says the UN's top climate scientist.

Rajendra Pachauri, who chairs the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), will make the call at a speech in London on Monday evening.

UN figures suggest that meat production puts more greenhouse gases into the atmosphere than transport.

But a spokeswoman for the UK's National Farmers' Union (NFU) said methane emissions from farms were declining.



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Courtesy of the BBC