THE most effective way to stop climate change is to stop eating meat and dairy, says a report by the British Sustainable Development Commission on Climate Change. That is also what the European Parliament concluded from a recent hearing on Climate Change and Food Policy: Less Meat, Less Heat. Less cows on factory farms means less methane emission. Less methane emission means helping reduce global warming since methane is known to be a lot more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere. The European Parliament hearing had Sir Paul McCartney on the panel agreeing that reducing meat consumption is the easiest way to cut greenhouse gas emissions, in particular methane and nitrous oxide. Al Gore, former US vice president and climate change campaigner, points out the same problems that eating meat brings to the planet. He recommends going vegetarian to save the planet. "I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat," he says.
THE most effective way to stop climate change is to stop eating meat and dairy, says a report by the British Sustainable Development Commission on Climate Change. That is also what the European Parliament concluded from a recent hearing on Climate Change and Food Policy: Less Meat, Less Heat.
Less cows on factory farms means less methane emission. Less methane emission means helping reduce global warming since methane is known to be a lot more effective in trapping heat in the atmosphere.
The European Parliament hearing had Sir Paul McCartney on the panel agreeing that reducing meat consumption is the easiest way to cut greenhouse gas emissions, in particular methane and nitrous oxide.
Al Gore, former US vice president and climate change campaigner, points out the same problems that eating meat brings to the planet. He recommends going vegetarian to save the planet. "I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat," he says.
