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Four year study at tax payers expense by climate “loons”

A four year study by the Food Climate Research Network, based at the University of Surrey, is telling us to cut down on what we eat in order to make an impact on climate change and CO2 emissions, they’d rather we starve or turn vegan to fit the “climate model” that will save us all from doom and destruction!

It is this type of nonsense, which suggests that we eat too much meat and drink too much milk, that brings the whole epistle of their ideology into disrepute, according to their findings we should manage on one quarter-pound burger, two sausages, three rashers of bacon and one chicken breast, along with a litre of milk and 100g of cheese per week. A typical example of tax payers cash being bandied about to university professors to research the subjects and find answers that fit hypothesis, and always fit the fashion of the day. The “green movement” has an awful lot to answer for in the way that research grants are allocated these days.

According to their report food produced in the UK accounts for 18.5 per cent of the country’s total emissions while food consumed in the UK – produced at home and abroad – accounts for 19 per cent. Meat and dairy production alone is responsible for eight per cent of our total greenhouse gas emissions, it says, and over half of food-related emissions, followed by fruit and vegetables accounting for around 2.5 per cent of UK total emissions.

That’s it then, to save the planet we should eat the equivalent of one decent breakfast and two small dinners per week, we’d be far better off living in China or India where presumably it’s O.K. to enjoy a special fried rice or a vegetable curry with pillau rice every day, regardless of the fact that these two nations are spewing out more CO2 than anybody else with their coalfired power stations and rampant industrial growth.

I cannot comprehend the looniness of this report, four years bloody research into what we eat and what it means for climate change, is this the most productive use of my money?

What sort of parallel universe is this Tara Garret living in for heavens sake? This is not science it’s bunkum, another computer model which fits nicely with a theory but has absolutely no relationship to the real world.

I suppose that in essence these “green revolutionaries” will be gleefully rubbing their hands at the prospect of global financial meltdown and a massive worldwide recession, despite the fact that millions of people will have no work. The upside (for them) is that global production will suffer drastically and therefore CO2 emissions will be cut at a stroke.

It’s time to start killing the cows, and severely restricting the amount of methane produced too – loonies.

Update

Longrider is similarly unimpressed;

I realise that these people are up to their eyeballs in their new religion and that religions have a nasty history of control freakery; but even the Inquisition would be gasping for breath trying to keep up with this lot.

It concedes that people are unlikely to make such changes voluntarily,

You don’t say? Of course, the solution is force; which is what makes socialism tick. Make no mistake, greenies are merely unreconstructed socialists masquerading under a false flag. They remain as misanthropic, spiteful, vindictive and hateful as ever.

Let me make one thing clear, though. No one – I repeat – no one tells me what or how much to eat. What I ingest is my damned business and no one else’s. I will continue to eat as much meat and dairy products as I please and they can go hang – preferably on the end of a length of piano wire.

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