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<blockquote data-quote="zand" data-source="post: 2112597" data-attributes="member: 85197"><p>And this is what happens when bad science and propaganda go hand in hand. </p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-49321560" target="_blank">https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-49321560</a></p><p></p><p>I fear that very soon I won't be able to eat the diet of my choice. I will however still be able to fly wherever I want to go and buy all manner of unnecessary goods. What a messed up world we live in when profit is more important than the planet, when leisure is more important than food. I really can't believe that folks think that stopping eating beef will help reduce global warming. There's plenty of things to be done, but hey, let's all focus on killing the cows, I am sure we will feel a whole lot better knowing we are doing something. The fact that that 'something' isn't going to help at all is irrelevant.</p><p></p><p>It reminds me of the plastic bag debacle. As I am sure you remember M&S were the first to charge for plastic bags in the UK. I wrote to them commenting that I thought this wasn't about saving the planet at all, but more about profits and image, they wanted to be 'seen to be doing something'. Then the tax on plastic bags came into force. One day I was killing time in M&S, not really planning to buy anything, but I found a T-shirt I liked. I had to pay the 5p tax on the bag as I hadn't taken one with me, not expecting to have been going shopping. I wrote to M&S again saying that since they were the first to charge for bags I would have thought that they would be supplying strong paper bags so that they no longer needed to supply us with the 5p plastic ones. After all, if a bag is bad for the planet it is bad whether or not you pay nothing, 5p or £1 for it. The reply came back that they had looked into this issue and found that strong paper bags were actually worse than plastic ones for the environment because of the way they were made etc and transport costs (environmental costs to the planet) being greater because they were bulkier. I in turn replied and said thank you for pointing that out. I now realised how much I was damaging the planet, and just think if a bag does so much damage, how much more damage does all the merchandise I had been buying over the years do to the environment? I would be much more frugal in future and wouldn't be troubling them for bags or anything else again. </p><p></p><p>People felt virtuous by reusing bags because that's what they were told to do, yet still went on buying the same things they would have done without a further thought for the planet. Not using plastic bags won't save the planet and nor will encouraging the world to go vegan. But hey, many will feel they are doing something and so feel good about themselves. Meanwhile global warming will continue until we wake up and realise that we humans are causing it, not the animals we eat. </p><p></p><p>Tonight I am going out for a meal. I will choose beef because very soon I may not be afforded that choice.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="zand, post: 2112597, member: 85197"] And this is what happens when bad science and propaganda go hand in hand. [URL]https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-49321560[/URL] I fear that very soon I won't be able to eat the diet of my choice. I will however still be able to fly wherever I want to go and buy all manner of unnecessary goods. What a messed up world we live in when profit is more important than the planet, when leisure is more important than food. I really can't believe that folks think that stopping eating beef will help reduce global warming. There's plenty of things to be done, but hey, let's all focus on killing the cows, I am sure we will feel a whole lot better knowing we are doing something. The fact that that 'something' isn't going to help at all is irrelevant. It reminds me of the plastic bag debacle. As I am sure you remember M&S were the first to charge for plastic bags in the UK. I wrote to them commenting that I thought this wasn't about saving the planet at all, but more about profits and image, they wanted to be 'seen to be doing something'. Then the tax on plastic bags came into force. One day I was killing time in M&S, not really planning to buy anything, but I found a T-shirt I liked. I had to pay the 5p tax on the bag as I hadn't taken one with me, not expecting to have been going shopping. I wrote to M&S again saying that since they were the first to charge for bags I would have thought that they would be supplying strong paper bags so that they no longer needed to supply us with the 5p plastic ones. After all, if a bag is bad for the planet it is bad whether or not you pay nothing, 5p or £1 for it. The reply came back that they had looked into this issue and found that strong paper bags were actually worse than plastic ones for the environment because of the way they were made etc and transport costs (environmental costs to the planet) being greater because they were bulkier. I in turn replied and said thank you for pointing that out. I now realised how much I was damaging the planet, and just think if a bag does so much damage, how much more damage does all the merchandise I had been buying over the years do to the environment? I would be much more frugal in future and wouldn't be troubling them for bags or anything else again. People felt virtuous by reusing bags because that's what they were told to do, yet still went on buying the same things they would have done without a further thought for the planet. Not using plastic bags won't save the planet and nor will encouraging the world to go vegan. But hey, many will feel they are doing something and so feel good about themselves. Meanwhile global warming will continue until we wake up and realise that we humans are causing it, not the animals we eat. Tonight I am going out for a meal. I will choose beef because very soon I may not be afforded that choice. [/QUOTE]
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