Researchers from Aberdeen and Cambridge Universities have just published a study (on August 31st) which states that greenhouse gases from food production will go up 80% if we continue to eat meat and dairy produce at today's levels. Of course global-warming activists (as well as academics) have said this kind of thing before. Take Doctor Pachauri. In 2008 Dr Pachauri told a Compassion in World Farming conference that everyone should give up eating meat. Why did he do that? Because he believed that the digestive methane given off by cattle (i.e. flatulence) contributed more to greenhouse gases than all the world's transport put together. Though as Christopher Booker pointed out: “As a vegetarian Hindu, Pachauri said nothing about the contribution to global warming made by India's 400 million sacred cows.” (245) Doctor Pachauri is neither an expert in dietary matters nor a scientist with specialised knowledge of atmospheric physics,...(Read Full Article)