9
Jul
Tony Blair Needs to Choose: Meat or the Environment
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Seems to me political figures these days just don’t know what’s best for the environment (or themselves and their public image for that matter). First Gordon Brown, and now another figure who’s popped up in the media for his ‘championing’ of environment issues, is ex-Prime Minister Tony Blair. Yes, he’s still around, but there’s a slight problem with what he’s garbling on about. In a Q&A session with The Independent readers, he admits that eating meat produces four times as many greenhouse gas emissions as the airline industry (and about forty percent more than all cars, lorries, and other forms of transport combined), but seems too addicted to his chicken dinners to be able to see reality.
Anyway, it went a little something like this:
Blair: “This is why I have called for G8 leaders to support efforts to reduce forest destruction and degradation … Minimising emissions from agricultural sources will be an important part of efforts to limit climate change.
Reader: “Will you (therefore) go vegetarian and lead by example?”
Blair replied: “This does not mean the world has to give up meat.”
Oh. Come. On! Tony, we know you can do better than that, all you need is a bit of guidance.
So we sent him a letter today asking him to go vegetarian. Among other things, it said:
“Combating deforestation is a fine goal, but unless we tackle the root of the problem – which isn’t razing trees but raising billions of animals for food – we won’t make a dent in this serious and deadly problem. Won’t you please consider adopting a vegetarian diet and promoting it as the most effective thing anyone can do to fight against global warming?”
Ilove the disclaimer at the “comment” site. It truly shows real cowardness. My comment: These people (PETA)need to be subjected to the kind of poverty, abuse and terror that the children of Africa and other countries live through every single day. If any human being can research the evidence, look at pictures of children suffering with these abomidal conditions, then look at pictures of animals possably being abused, if they can then say, we need to focus our attention and dedication to the animals, rather than the children, then I feel their very humanity needs to be questioned and scrutinized. May God help us all if this is how we as a society, choose to put animals rights over those of innocent children, we and our plantet are surely doomed.