This week, climate change was thrown into question. Also on the subject of climate change, the Government has been looking into new ways of saving the World.
So, the Government gave money to some scientists to work out a solution of preventing climate change but also improving public health. By a matter of coincidence, there was a universal solution to both these problems.
Their report says:
Agricultural food production and agriculturally-related change in land use substantially contribute to greenhouse-gas emissions worldwide. Four-fifths of agricultural emissions arise from the livestock sector. Although livestock products are a source of some essential nutrients, they provide large amounts of saturated fat, which is a known risk factor for cardiovascular disease.
So their conclusion is to remove 30% of livestock so unhealthy people can’t eat them and the greenhouse effect will subside. But what will happen then? The price of meat will inflate and it will become a luxury. People will run a black market of meat; possibly human meat.
Then there will be the meat feuds where a pig will be traded by one group to another, only for a large shoot-out to commence. The victors would then eat the fallen.
Is this is the kind of world that the Government wants? Apparently yes, if the plan goes ahead. Which it won’t, I hope.
