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Will Eating Less Meat (and Ice-Cream) Cool the World?

31st January 2010

Mick Keogh, Executive Director, Australian Farm Institute
Dr Rajendra Pachauri, vegetarian head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is doing it. Sir Paul McCartney is doing it. Lord Stern of Brentford (author of the Stern Report on climate change) says we should all do it. Al Gore agrees but hasn’t quite got around to it yet, and Professor Peter Singer, Australian philosopher, vegetarian and animal rights advocate thinks we should all do it. The ‘it’ they are all advocating is to reduce or stop eating meat, and the reason (amongst others) is because they claim meat production is a major source of greenhouse gases

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