DawnWatch: UK govt agency says Go vegan to help climate — 30 May, 2007
May 31st, 2007 3:08 pm by Kelly Garbato———- Forwarded message ———-
From: DawnWatch – news [at] dawnwatch.com
Date: May 30, 2007 2:47 PM
Subject: DawnWatch: UK govt agency says Go vegan to help climate — 30 May, 2007
Groundbreaking news from the UK! The Daily Telegraph, 30 May, 2007, includes an article by Charles Clover headed, “Go vegan to help climate, says Government agency.” (p7)
It opens:
“It would help tackle the problem of climate change if people ate less meat, according to a Government agency.
“A leaked email to a vegetarian campaign group from an Environment Agency official expresses sympathy with the environmental benefits of a vegan diet, which bans dairy products and fish.
“The agency also says the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is considering recommending eating less meat as one of the ‘key environmental behaviour changes” needed to save the planet.
“It says that this change would have to be introduced ‘gently’ because of ‘the risk of alienating the public’.
Yet, “David Miliband, the Environment Secretary, has raised the issue that farm animals are blamed for producing large amounts of the powerful greenhouse gas, methane…”
On the government’s hesitancy to push veganism, Juliet Gellatley, director of Viva, is quoted: “I think it is extraordinary that a Government agency thinks becoming a vegetarian or vegan could have such a positive impact for the environment yet it is not prepared to stand up and argue the case.”
You’ll find the whole piece on line here OR tinyurl.com/3x43f9.
It presents a great opportunity for letters to the editor discussing the joys of plant-based eating. The Telegraph takes letters at dtletters [at] telegraph.co.uk.
Always include your full name, address, and daytime phone number when sending a letter to the editor. Remember that shorter letters are more likely to be published.
Yours and the animals’,
Karen Dawn
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