Annex 1
REDUCING MEAT CONSUMPTION AS A WAY TO CURB
GLOBAL WARMING
IPCC, Dr Rajendra Pachauri, Chairman
"Please eat less meat; meat is a very
carbon-intensive commodity… This is something the IPCC was
afraid to say earlier, but now we have said it."
"Don't eat meat, ride a bike and be a
frugal shopper. That's how you can help brake global warming."
NASA, Dr James Hansen, Top world climatologist
"… the things that individuals can
do are helpful, and one of the most helpful is actually a vegetarian
diet, produces much less greenhouse gasses than a meat diet."
UN, Yvo de Boer, Executive Secretary of Framework
Committee on Climate Change
"The best solution would be for us all
to become vegetarians."
UN, Henning Steinfeld, Chief of the FAO 's Livestock
Information and Policy branch
"Livestock are one of the most significant
contributors to today's most serious environmental problems. Urgent
action is required to remedy the situation."
Australia, Senator Andrew Bartlett
"There is no easier, cheaper and more
immediate thing we can do to significantly reduce our personal
contribution to greenhouse emissions than to cut the amount of
meat and dairy products that we consume."
Estonia, Digestive Gases Tax
Estonia introduced a 'digestive gases tax' in
2008 to compensate for the greenhouse gas that cows produce
during their life.
Korea, Senator Gang Gi Gap, Labour Party Leader
Democratic Labour Party leader and Senator Gang
Gi-Gap has called for a switch to a plant-based diet. "In
the case of the meat diet, a comparatively great deal of CO2 gas
is generated from animal raising as well as the excretions of
animals, and this amount is extremely serious. So, at least starting
now, we humans need to make a great change in our lives."
22 September 2008
Sweden, Jens Holms, MEP
"We should abolish meat subsidies, let
meat bear its own environmental costs and work to make modern
vegetarian food cheaper."
Taiwan
In April 2008, under the auspices of a campaign
titled 'No Meat No Heat', around a million people in Taiwan—including
the speaker of parliament, the environment minister, and the mayors
of Taipei and Kaohsiung—vowed to never again touch flesh
nor fish.
UK, Jonathon Porritt, Chair of the UK government's
Sustainable Development Commission
UK, Professor Tim Lang, City University
UK, Caroline Lucas, Leader of Green Party, MEP
US, Paul Watson, Former Sierra Club Director and
Greenpeace Co-founder
"You can change your light bulbs, buy
a hybrid car and plant more trees till the cows come home, but
nothing is as effective, available, inexpensive, quick, powerful
for the individual in affecting global warming as the choice of
where to stick your fork." http://www.cincinnati-oh.gov/cmgr/downloads/cmgr_pdf18280.pdf
Christian Vegetarian Association UK (CVAUK)
A meat-free diet has distinct advantages for
human health, enables a more just use of environmental resources,
and eliminates the suffering of animals bred, raised and killed
for food… The adoption of a caring, healthy, violence-free
vegetarian diet can be a means of creating a more peaceful society.
Jewish Vegetarians of North America
The way animals are treated on farms today violates
Jewish teachings… Becoming vegetarians is the best thing
we can do for the environment.
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