Quote of the day
“Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better. I think it’s important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating. …They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.”
- Lord Stern, a government adviser on global warming, who believes that people should give up eating meat to halt climate change. The author of the 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming predicts that eating meat could in the future become as socially unacceptable as drink driving.
And the eco-lobby wonder why their message is not more universally accepted?
Steak Tartare waiter.
‘They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.’
I bet they don’t. The question is more likely to be:
‘They will increasingly ask about the high cost of their food.’
Because the great climate change scam is going to drive the cost of everything up in the coming years thanks to politicians with a ’superman’ complex trying to implement CO2 emmission reductions that will ultimately destroy an industrialised nation such as ours.
These guys are the green equivalent of the Nigerian 419 scammers.
‘a government adviser on global warming’
Sounds like that post is a prime candidate for the cuts being proposed……..
I’ll join you in that steak, Dontmindme.
Isn’t it “odd” how the green lobby would have us discard all the developments that have allowed humankind to generate a surplus which has enabled the specialisation which has led to an improvement of living standards beyond subsistence farming? I find myself wondering what the real goal of the green movement is – clean air or a totally equal but devastatingly poor society.
Meat is murder is making a comeback is it. Spandau Ballet has reformed. The National Front are making a comeback. Students are wearing light net scarves with gold thread and felt boots. The Fiat 126 is a top selling car. The unions are on strike, ballroom dancing is on the telly, everyone hates the weak prime minister who is in disagreement with his chancellor. The country is dangerously close to the IMF coming in , the price of fuel is rising daily, while the value of the pound keeps falling. The cost of debt is rising, while the ability to get a mortgage is falling. The police are blamed for excesses at riot control, Millwall and West Ham are hoping to bring back hooliganism, the Specials got an award and the top tax rate is climbing.
Is it just me or is it 1979 again? Is Maggie about to make a comeback?
Let’s not forget that Stern has previous form for this kind of nonsence. The press realease from the Stern report that was used by all the ‘non scientific’ politial community to try to scare the whole world into reverting to subsistance farming and rickshaws, was unrepresentative of the ‘evidence’ he managed to put into the report,(the bit read and peer reviewed by the scientific community).
Anyone who needs further assistance with planning their future diet might want to read Nigel Lawson’s book ‘An appeal to reason’.
And Oi, Quango – Leave the Hammers out of it sunshine or I’ll be round your gaff with some boys from the ICF, and then there’ll be some trouble, got it?
Just about to tuck into a nice steak.
Remember Pol Pot’s Year Zero?
No power, no culture, no capitalism, hey lets start over in caves!
“They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.”
No they won’t.
I won’t, anyway.
Who is this presumtious tosser?
I worry about the carbon content of my food, I hate burnt toast.