If only Sir David recommended we become vegetarian
Sir David Attenborough described humans as "a plague on Earth", (Mercury, January 23).
He said that not only does an increasing world population add to climate change, but we are also running out of space to grow food.
I have recently received information from a number of charities about a campaign, Enough Food For Every One IF.
This June, the UK hosts the leaders of the world's richest nations at the G8 Summit and a hunger summit will take place just before the main event.
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Members of the IF campaign will urge world leaders to tackle the food crisis.
Neither Sir David nor the charity literature I have received so far about the IF campaign has suggested reducing consumption of or giving up meat to tackle the food problem. More land is used to grow crops to feed animals than to feed people.
Many years ago, the UN recommended an emphasis on growing food for direct human consumption and removing subsidies for livestock farming to ease future food shortages.
The EU gives billions of pounds each year to Europe's farmers that mostly goes to subsidise livestock production and keep down the price of meat and dairy.
No doubt people will pay lip service to the IF campaign and readily sign petitions without making personal dietary changes, in the hope world leaders will find a solution that will not affect them.
Lent begins soon. This is an ideal opportunity to try a plant-based diet.
Elizabeth Allison, Aylestone.
4 Comments
by 4_Stroke
Thursday, January 31 2013, 11:34AM
“Just as a matter of interest..quote "This June, the UK hosts the leaders of the world's richest nations at the G8 Summit and a hunger summit will take place just before the main event"
Is this going to be a vegetarian event..... I think not. I expect they will be indulging in the finest food available, no expense spared.
Let's see if the "hunger summit" addresses the real reasons for starvation, i.e over population, civil war and corrupt African Governments. Of if it's just an emotional guilt/blackmail exercise to get more free money out of the western tax payers.”
by karinfall1955
Thursday, January 31 2013, 11:10AM
“OK speaking as a vegetarian, assuming people continue to breed at an unfettered rate but we do all become vegetarians, where the hell (assuming this surfeit of human flesh needs homes) will the crops be grown? Where will endangered species live when their habitats are turned into vast plains to grow crops to supply the endless growth of the human species? Population control is infinitely more important than a plant based diet.”
by 4_Stroke
Thursday, January 31 2013, 9:21AM
“Sir David Attenborough is not a vegetarian so maybe he would be seen as hypercritical.
As for Lent, I will leave the pointless self sacrificing to the believers.”
by spalding1944
Thursday, January 31 2013, 8:50AM
“Despite your continuing attemts to turn everyone into a veggie lover I shall continue to eat meat as I have done for 68 years, please change the record”