Meat consumption and the Environment
The increasing number of farm animals being reared for meat and dairy produce is now a major cause of climate change. The latest report from the United Nations which is the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations /report 2006 ‘Livestock’s Long Shadow’ confirms that the livestock sector is responsible for 18% of all greenhouse gas emissions - more than the whole of the transport sector. This increase in meat production is simply unsustainable. Global meat production is projected to more than double by 2050 and the impact on the environment of this is going to be disastrous.
The following link shows a video on how our rising meat consumption is destroying our environment and swallowing up our water supplies.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvCoWh77w1s
We at Uproar believe that their should be a tax on meat in the same way that we have green fuel taxes. That way people would be helping to pay for the damage to the enviroment caused by their meat eating. Free-range Soil Association approved meat however should be left out of the tax system. This would bring factory farmed meat more in line with the price of free-range and encourage people to change their shopping habits.
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