THE last time Lord Stern of Brentford produced a report on climate change the whole world listened.
The Stern Review, published three years ago, became the definitive guide on the economic impacts of climate change for Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and political leaders all over the globe.
So Lord Stern's comments this week that meat eating could soon become as taboo as drink-driving should not be dismissed as those of another crackpot.
The livestock industry needs to listen to him, take him seriously and respond coolly and collectively.
After all, much of what Lord Stern says is true.
Agriculture does contribute 7 per cent of the
Meat production clearly does have a carbon footprint and the meat supply chain clearly must find ways of reducing its impact.
But Lord Stern - who was joined by Friends of the Earth, Compassion in World Farming, Sustain, Viva in his criticism - was wrong to victimise British livestock farmers and wrong to encourage consumers to boycott their meat and dairy products.
Lord Stern failed to recognise that
Defra recently set a target to reduce emissions by a further 11 per cent by 2020 and livestock farmers are well on their way to achieving this too, through better breeding, improved diets and new technology such as anaerobic digestion.
Farmers are doing their bit. But is everybody else? No.
Consumers still waste 40 per cent of all the food they buy.
The European Union still allows the importation of meat produced through the destruction of the rainforest.
The
I could go on.
Agriculture has taken some deserved flack in its time but it should not be pilloried on this one - farmers are part of the solution to producing sustainable food and tackling climate change, not part of the problem, and they should be treated as such.
One other thing.
With all this talk about meat eating it struck me this week that agriculture's top two politicos are herbivores.
It was no real surprise, then, that neither Hilary 'veggie' Benn, environment secretary, nor Jim 'fruity' Fitzpatrick, food and farming minister, were wheeled out to take part in the great meat debate.
Thankfully Defra did manage to find one bona fide carnivore in its corridors of power.
It was heartening to listen to Professor Bob Watson, Defra's chief scientific advisor, talk passionately about his diet of meat 'two or three times a week', fish 'every now and then' and 'more and more' vegetables.
One look into Prof Watson's hungry eyes convinced me that meat eating will not be rationed under his watch.
I have read all sorts of different ideas on what is the cause of global warming , it seems that the easy option again is to bash the farmers, I cannot believe that the livestock sector produces more carbon than all the plains, cars,power stations,factories sewerage works ground fill sites,all used for the population of the world.
Nothing has been said about this just used to flog the farmers who change every time they are required to do so. there is no other industry in the world that responds in the same way , why? because
they love their land and always care the animals that are in their charge. Farmers are the back bone of the world , and unless they are given a proper remuneration and some space to produce what the human
race requires, food ,then the present trend of the young joining the industry will end .
So stop taking the easy option and start looking at the human waste problem , somewhere there is another 64%of methane gas out there to do something about.
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