The idea has been floating around for years now that vegetarianism is good for the environment and eating meat, especially beef, is a significant contributor to global warming, but a comment recently by Lord Nicholas Stern, an english economist and author of the 2006 Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change has given serious pause for thought. He has predicted that peoples attitudes to eating meat will change so much in the not too distant future that it will be inevitable that eating meat will become socially unacceptable in the same way that drink driving has today. Now all of us baby boomers and cuspers will remember, somewhat incredulously now, driving with alcohol fuelled gay abandon…… To think that this may now happen to our beautiful medium rare prime sirloin.
Stern states that meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases, methane causing 23 times more greenhouse gases than carbon dioxide. He believes that the price of meat and other foods that generate a lot of greenhous gases will become more expensive and that people will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.
What is there to say in the face of such irrefutable change but bring on the waygu….. and quickly!!!!