Now this shows the dumb global warming alarmists for the loons which they really are.
Consumers will have to satisfy themselves with four small portions of meat and one litre of milk a week to slow down escalating climate change, a major new report has warned.
The study also recommends a cut in consumption of low nutritional value foods such as alcohol, chocolate and sweets, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions caused by their production, along with a return to wartime practices of shopping on foot, buying local products and cooking in bulk.
Not happy with sticking their tofu eating faces into our lives, they now seek to dictate what we are to eat and drink. State control that would not be out of place in North Korea or ancient Sparta they now seek to impose using the old "end justifies the means" argument.
It concedes that people are unlikely to make such changes voluntarily, and so suggests caps on greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and carbon pricing to control what food is available at what price.
In a word taxes, the rich will have three square meals whilst the rest of us have to stick to some tofu and leaves no doubt grown on some communial dung heap.
Conducted by the Food Climate Research Network, based at the University of Surrey, the four-year study is one of the most thorough of its kind.
It has been prompted by growing concern about the impact of food production and consumption on the changing global climate.
It estimates that food produced in the UK accounts for 18.5 per cent of the country's total emissions while food consumed in the UK - produced at home and abroad - accounts for 19 per cent.
Meat and dairy production alone is responsible for eight per cent of our total greenhouse gas emissions, it says, and over half of food-related emissions, followed by fruit and vegetables accounting for around 2.5 per cent of UK total emissions.
Oh and don't think that this eco nightmare will be okay if you at least can nurse your sorrows over a pint, hell no as I have said for a long time the lefties are puritans and booze must be banned.
It also singles out alcohol, which is responsible for around 1.5 per cent of total emissions but contributes little in nutritional value.
"We may need to reduce consumption of such foods if we are to reduce the GHG intensity of what we consume," the report reads.
However, it concedes that this approach "raises enormous questions and accusations of nannystate misery-guts spoilsportism".
Agriculture - principally methane produced by sheep and cattle - is responsible for generating the most emissions through food production, followed by manufacturing, transport, cooking and refrigeration by consumers and packaging.
It recommends that people in the UK should cut their consumption of meat from an average of 1.6 kg (3.5lb) a week and milk from 4.2 litres (8.8 pints) a week to 500g (1lb) of meat and one litre of milk (2.1 pints).
At present, we eat an equivalent of six sausages, two chicken breasts, 100g of ham (3.5oz), eight rashers of bacon and two burgers a week, washed down with three litres of milk, 100g of cheese, and a little cream.
Under the stricter regime, we would eat one quarter-pound burger, two sausages, three rashers of bacon and one chicken breast, along with a litre of milk and 100g of cheese.
Can we start a mass fucking cull of these Guardian reading, tofu eating cunts now? Hell at least they will biodegrade and be at one with the planet. Now note the words in that last line
Under the stricter regime, we would eat one quarter-pound burger, two sausages, three rashers of bacon and one chicken breast, along with a litre of milk and 100g of cheese.
Oh you just know that they will milk this crisis for all its worth, all except the fucking New Labour elite who of course will fucking chow down on multiple courses of the worlds finest food stuffs prepared at great expense by overpaid chefs.
Now it was not so long back that our unelected one eye'd leader talked to us like school children and told us all to eat up our food so as to cut down on waste and then fucked off to the G8 meeting where he had this menu to look at...
Now I have always had some respect for the fine nation that is Canada and I believe we can learn a lot from them. We need to import to seal hunters and beat to death every single eco loon and New Labour MP.
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They are pushing roo meat in Aust.
Maybe the cowes will fart less if we do. yeah thats it.
Wouldn't be surprised if mad cow comes back into season to push it along.
What fucking miserable bastards.
feel better now.
Agreed, although I think we should push "treehugger green" much like soylent green but made by treehuggers for treehuggers.
Interesting. Source of report? And source of the G8 menu?
Cheers.
Sleeping Dragon - the treehugger report was here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3107696/Consumers-should-cut-meat-and-milk-intake-to-combat-climate-change.html
and the G8 menu I found here and also saw it in Guardian, Telegraph and a few others.
http://www.order-order.com/2008/07/so-what-is-gordon-eating-today.html
Thanks, fido. I'm a bit of an environmentalist meself, but I regard it as a Malthusian imperative rather than a fashionable lifestyle choice.
Makes me sick that people use the environmental tag as halo polish instead of a means to secure and preserve resources.
Sure nowt wrong with saving the planet, but a lot of these enviro types are more into social control and use global warming as the excuse for draconian measures.
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