Posted on 10/22/2010 6:39:15 AM PDT by smokingfrog
Wholesale changes to the nation’s diet, with a move towards vegetarian food and away from beef and cheese, have been recommended by Government advisers.
A report commissioned by the Food Standards Agency suggests radical changes to what we eat and even how we cook.
These include eating more seasonal produce to reduce transportation and switching to microwave ovens and pressure cookers to use less energy in preparing food.
Out would go beef, cheese, sugary foods and drinks such as tea, coffee and cocoa. In would come vegetables and pulses, together with yoghurt.
The FSA says the switch is necessary as part of a move to a diet that is low in greenhouse gases (GHG), which are associated with climate change.
The report, compiled by a team from the University of East Anglia, suggests that schools, hospitals and other public bodies should be expected to lead a change in national behaviour by putting low-GHG food on their menus.
The university was at the centre of allegations last year that it had manipulated climate change data to magnify the problem.
Its report, called Food and Climate Change, will be controversial given that many people may baulk at being told what they should eat in order to meet greenhouse gas reduction targets.
However, the recommendations will be welcomed by vegetarian campaigners and those who support organic farming, which is recognised in the study as producing food that is lower in GHG.
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Coming to a state near you in the not-too-distant future!
This will happen when they pry the steak knife from my cold, dead hands.
Yup. I was waiting for this. Good luck, UK.
The Brits need to pull up their pants, get their country back from the globalists and kick out the muslim vermin.
What the heck's a pulse? I'm not drinking somebody's pulse! What is wrong with these people?! Finally proof vampires really have taken over government.
This is for the UK.
They try anything like that over here, and the response from the majority of the population is likely to be the suggestion to the government that it perform a physically impossible act upon itself.
What will happen to their roast-beef and their carveries? Fortunately, I suspect the advice of these nanny-state lefties will be ignored.
Now that is funny and clever!!!
Start at the top.
noun
1. the edible seeds of peas, beans, lentils, and similar plants having pods
2. any leguminous plant
No fish and chips ? No steak and kidney pie ? No shepherd’s pie?
It’s pretty bad when the goobermint controls what you eat.
I suggest we send Michelle Obama to the UK (permanently) to oversee this change. It’s the least we can do.
There is no such thing as climate change, global warming. It’s a hoax, a scam, a lie created to tax us for air. And the greenies love the lie because they can use it to control the populations of the world. (IMHO)
Soylent Greens... the ftards of Europe.
Good thing the UK is so broke it’s getting rid of government overlords ... I mean employees. Maybe there’s still a chance for them to dig out from under if they can cut back on people whose only role in life is to invent stupid ideas and force people to follow them.
See what giving your freedom back to the government will get you? It only gets worse.
Methinks they left some factors out of the analysis.
For one thing, to produce the same amount of food using "organic" methods, which are seldom precisely defined, requires roughly 3x the land and 5x the workers. 3x the land would seem to take 3x the machinery and therefore fuel, which would seem to put a giant hole in the low-GHG theory.
For another, "natural fertilizers" are much bulkier to transport than the evil synthetic variety, and this transport would seem to burn a lot more fuel.
Ah, a report by the University of Est Anglia... The same folks that brought us the globull warming scam...
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