What, really?
Did you know that being a vegetarian, which means you're smug, is more damaging to the environment than eating meat?
What, really? No, not really. If you're a vegetarian who happens to eat heavily processed meat substitutes all the time, then you could do more damage to the environment than by eating locally sourced meat. But that's what's known in the trade as a bit complicated, so the newspaper - our friends at the Mail - has to oversimplify it for thickies like you. VEGGIES ARE WORSE THAN CANCER AND HITLER, AND THEY'RE SMUG BASTARDS AS WELL, THE SCUM. It's easier that way.
So, not quite the slam-dunk you may have been forgiven for expecting, had you read the headline. Being a vegetarian doesn't do more harm than eating meat, it merely can, if X, Y and Z also apply. It's funny, though. Had this been a story about immigration or political correctness, you just know that the readers would have swallowed every single word the Mail told them; but on this occasion, no:
Ah, poor, naive JH from Yorkshire: "I can't believe your newspaper would publish such drivel." Bless.
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February 14th, 2010 - 10:15
Just when they publish something I actually *want* to believe, someone comes along with the truth… tsk, tsk. At least the thing about Ayn Rand being a vampire turned out to be true.
February 14th, 2010 - 10:29
This was discussed on the BBC tv news this morning – but the autocuties made a total bodge of it. Where, apart from the blogosphere and Ben Goldacre, do we get any sensible discussion of issues nowadays?
February 14th, 2010 - 10:43
I’m wondering how much the researchers took into account the tendency to feed UK cattle with foreign based soya feed? Would like to read the report and find out but I’ll be damned if I can find a link to it anywhere, WWF and Crabfield Uni sites are silent on it, they don’t even have copies of the press releases that presumably went out. Can anyone help with a link
February 14th, 2010 - 11:22
I am smug AND vegetarian so it must be true.
February 14th, 2010 - 13:54
Ooh I wonder what they’d make of me; I’m a pescetarian, but only because I don’t like the taste of meat. I don’t give a crap about the animals.
But hurrah for the sensible comments for once! I love it when their stories backfire on them.
February 19th, 2010 - 09:07
The actual study is here:
http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/sas/naturalresources/research/projects/is0205.jsp
I quote -
Food: Wheat
CO2 equivalents per ton: 0.8
Food: Potatoes
CO2 equivalents per ton: 0.24
Food: Beef
CO2 equivalents per ton: 16
Food: Pork
CO2 equivalents per ton: 6