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update:Sep 29, 2008
UK: Eat less meat to curb global warming
Consumers should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make an
effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change, according to the
United Nations.
This September, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the UN Intergovernmental
Panel on Climate Change, told the The Observer that diet change was important
because of the huge greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental problems -
including habitat destruction - associated with rearing livestock.
The UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation has estimated that meat
production accounts for nearly a fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions.
However, Chris Lamb, head of marketing for the British Pig Executive (BPEX),
said the meat industry had been unfairly targeted and was working hard to find
out which activities had the biggest environmental impact and reduce
those.
Some ideas were contradictory, he said - for example, one solution to
emissions from livestock was to keep them indoors, but this would damage animal
welfare.
Editor WorldPoultry
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