Climate Chief Howard Stern ‘of the Stern Report Fame’ has stated in an interview with The Times that People will need to turn vegetarian if the world is to fight climate change. In the interview, Lord Stern said: “Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”

He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat eating became unacceptable. “I think it’s important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating,” he said. “I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.”

UN figures suggest that meat production is responsible for about 18 per cent of global carbon emissions, including the destruction of forest land for cattle ranching and the production of animal feeds such as soy.

Having recently become a meat free convert it has opened my eyes to lots of things connected with meat and our insatiable need to consume it. We know it’s bad for the planet, vast amounts of studies suggest it’s bad for us http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/01/vegetarians-blood-cancer-diet-risk, it’s certainly not good for the animals. So why do we continue to consume it on an industrial level.

I would contest that we are addicted to meat?

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