UN seeks to curb meat eating to save planet

Scoopit!

Adam likes meat, but the UN would prefer you not to enjoy this :-

Beef

Or this:-

Roast Pork

To give but two examples.

Adam is all steamed up about an article in the UK Observer dated 7 September and some of the implications.

UN says eat less meat to combat global warming.

People should have one meat-free day a week if they want to make a personal and effective sacrifice that would help tackle climate change, the world’s leading authority on global warming has told The Observer

Dr Rajendra Pachauri, chair of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which last year earned a joint share of the Nobel Peace Prize, said that people should then go on to reduce their meat consumption even further.

His comments are the most controversial advice yet provided by the panel on how individuals can help tackle global warning.

Pachauri, who was re-elected the panel’s chairman for a second six-year term last week, said diet change was important because of the huge greenhouse gas emissions and other environmental problems – including habitat destruction – associated with rearing cattle and other animals. It was relatively easy to change eating habits compared to changing means of transport, he said.

Adam’s emphasis.

Climate change is fast becoming an attack on many aspects of our daily life.

Dr Pachauri is a vegetarian. To be truly effective though we would have to cut back on dairy as well

Adam for one does not intend to let the UN, nor it’s acolytes in NZ Labour and the Greens determine whether or not he should change his dietary habits in regard to meat, or dairy.

First it would be voluntary. Probably though that would not work, so then the control freaks would step in to regulate and compel – all to do good. If you think Adam is dreaming then read on. Along the way think about the economic damage – whole economies would be devastated. Then read this:-

In terms of immediacy of action and the feasibility of bringing about reductions in a short period of time, it clearly is the most attractive opportunity,’ said Pachauri. ‘Give up meat for one day [a week] initially, and decrease it from there,’ said the Indian economist, who is a vegetarian.

Adam’s emphasis above and in the following comment.

However, he also stressed other changes in lifestyle would help to combat climate change. ‘That’s what I want to emphasise: we really have to bring about reductions in every sector of the economy.‘

So is to save the planet we destroy progress, economies and employment. Further see this comment here:-

Pachauri can expect some vociferous responses from the food industry to his advice, though last night he was given unexpected support by Masterchef presenter and restaurateur John Torode, who is about to publish a new book, John Torode’s Beef. ‘I have a little bit and enjoy it,’ said Torode. ‘Too much for any person becomes gluttony. But there’s a bigger issue here: where [the meat] comes from. If we all bought British and stopped buying imported food we’d save a huge amount of carbon emissions.’

See the protectionists see this as a further way to promulgate the concept of food miles. In fact there should be wider spread protests as the impact of what is contemplated is better understood.

Why can people not see that the global alarmists would, if they get their way, stop many poor countries improving their lot and ruin the economies of others as NZ for one would go down the gurgler if some of the wilder flights of fancy of the alarmists are allowed to take hold, for example restrictions on flying putting an end to tourism, not buying imported food -shutting down the dairy and meat industries. Where these alarmists think they are going to get their industrial goods from God only knows and he/she is not telling.

Fewer or no cows – no leather for shoes or clothing or furniture amongst other examples. No by products for bio fuels amongst other things. Fewer or no sheep, no wool for clothing or carpets. Yet with the forecast decline in oil, will we not need wool to replace artificial fibres.

Tomorrow, Pachauri will speak at an event hosted by animal welfare group Compassion in World Farming, which has calculated that if the average UK household halved meat consumption that would cut emissions more than if car use was cut in half.

The group has called for governments to lead campaigns to reduce meat consumption by 60 per cent by 2020. Campaigners have also pointed out the health benefits of eating less meat. The average person in the UK eats 50g of protein from meat a day, equivalent to a chicken breast and a lamb chop – a relatively low level for rich nations but 25-50 per cent more than World Heath Organisation guidelines.

So the animal rights nutters also get in on the act. It would not stop at meat, probably dairy would then be attacked for as below:

Last year a major report into the environmental impact of meat eating by the Food Climate Research Network at Surrey University claimed livestock generated 8 per cent of UK emissions – but eating some meat was good for the planet because some habitats benefited from grazing. It also said vegetarian diets that included lots of milk, butter and cheese would probably not noticeably reduce emissions because dairy cows are a major source of methane, a potent greenhouse gas released through flatulence.

Does that mean all the sacred cows in India would go, plus water buffalo herds in Asia?

Every day this whole climate change business gets more and more out of control.

In New Zealand if the IPCC gets it’s way we will not need an ETS as the majority will have left and the rest will be eking a living from subsistence farming and regressing over time to the stone age as the economy goes backwards.

No doubt what remains of a government, travelling by canoe to say Australia, will claim world leadership in combating climate change. But who will care.

Ok, somewhat fantastical , but daily more and more nonsense is promulgated and scenarios where everything is regulated in order to save the planet become more prevalent, so that one is forced to ask why bother? Sometimes ridicule may be the only thing that causes sense to break through.

Truly we are succumbing to the tyranny of those who to save us would first enslave us – the climate change jihadists.