Via JuliaM, this little gem.
Packs of red meat should carry warning labels advising shoppers to ration themselves to three portions a week, amid controversial claims that livestock production is killing the planet.
The proposals come from the World Wildlife Fund (WWF), which also wants Britons to switch to milk substitutes as part of a radical move away from dairy farming.
As if we don’t have enough self-appointed busybodies wagging their fingers and telling us what to do. And anyone who has tasted those milk substitutes will realise that they are foul, disgusting concoctions from the Devil’s own Kitchen (sorry). I like my dairy products, I like my full cream milk, full cream butter on my bread and when I do have a coffee, I have a nice dollop of cream in it – and have every intention of continuing to do so.
WWF insists that the recent campaign from Sir Paul McCartney to encourage people to go ‘Meat Free on Mondays’ does not go far enough.
As I mentioned at the time, it goes too far. It is none of McCartney’s damned business what other people eat.
The organisation suggests people could switch to eating more chicken and other poultry and drinking milk alternatives made from soya or rice.
It also argues people should switch to consuming much more fruit and vegetables.
The WWF is about to issue an 84 page report outlining strategies for reducing red meat and dairy consumption in order to cut greenhouse gas emissions.
Remind me not to give any money to this fake charity.
WWF insists that it is not telling people to stop eating red meat and dairy, rather to reduce the portions eaten per week.
Makes no difference, it is not their place to tell us to do anything, because it is none of their damned business.
Incidentally, I notice from the comments on the piece that people just don’t get it. This, for example:
But the hysterical reaction to any suggestion that we produce and consume too much meat and dairy is bonkers. Farming can still thrive in this country even if we produce less, health can improve if we eat a bit less, and it’ll help the environment. This isn’t a ‘bizarre’ suggestion; it’s actually a fairly minor lifestyle change. Eating meat with every meal is a recent phenomenon, not our ‘traditional eating habits’. Calm down people, this really isn’t that bad.
It is not about farming surviving or what we eat that is the issue – it is that a fake charity has set itself up to tell us what to do. It has no mandate to do this and the poison it whispers in the government’s ears will, sooner or later, come out as policy driven by “concerns raised”. That is why this is an issue.
Today, I’m sitting in a hotel room. In a little while, I’ll be wandering down to the restaurant. You can be absolutely sure that I will not be ordering the vegetarian option. Contrariness is the appropriate response to control freakery.
“Contrariness is the appropriate response to control freakery.”
Damned right. It’s a shame a lot of Britains seem to have turned into weeds. In the past this kind of control freakery would have been met with a different reaction entirely!
I weep for what ZNL have done to this once great nation and it’s people, I seriously wonder if we can ever recover…
Funny you should mention Paul McCartney. He backs PETA, the sick bastards that do things like this.
The militance and bullying from the veggie lobby can be truly astounding at times.
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In 2007, WWF received £5,661,000 from aid agencies and government grants. This was about 12.5% of its total income. Most of this (£3,620,000) of this came from the Department of International Development, but substantial funds also came from DEFRA, & the EU. The Scottish Executive provided £44,000, half of which was toward reducing Scotland’s global footprint, and £5,000 toward the Scotland Climate Change Project.
(Source: WWF 2007 accounts – http://assets.wwf.org.uk/downloads/ar_finance_fy07_1.pdf)
A quick look at the WWF website reveals this:”After 18 months of lobbying by WWF and the Stop Climate Chaos Scotland coalition the Scottish Parliament has unanimously voted in favour of strong legislation to tackle climate change.”
Yes, the Scottish Executive have been giving them our money to lobby the Scottish Executive.
No – I’m not going to give to this “charity” either. I don’t mind them telling me not to eat red meat. I do object to them lobbying for it to be compulsory to have a silly label on packs of red meat.
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yes I have given them money, indeed I have a dd set up for them but no more.
I think that to gouge on a bunch of meat especially that one has not killed and cleaned for oneself is obnoxious, but most cannot live except in that way. There is a lot of cruelty in it all at best, this can of course and /should/ be lessened, to say otherwise is denial above all of the majesty and joy of the future. Any other stance (“It’s ALWAYS gonna be that way, Maaan!”) is just not very-well-disguised “secret” pessimism, something actually ridiculous in Libertarians.
But, the only authentic manifestation of any real gain in moral insight can only come from out of the hearts of individuals.
Example is additive and it is transformative…to just the extent that I do NOT take it as “power” to tell other people what to do. The goal is Liberty for all, and above all from needing everyone else to be made over in my image. In just the same way as to be free I must first of all get over on my own filthy impulses, first, “normalcy” and the whole list of secret pessimisms, all of that.
(Jesus Christ, the libertarian squawking of a cantankerous parrot! One of the Summer pleasures here is now with us, in southern Minnesota, and I’m drying plenty of chives and dill and summer savory, as well as catnip, against the loom of Winter now soon on us….)
Ever since Macca came out with his fatuous ‘Meat-Free Monday’ cock-waffle, I have made a special point of scoffing a large lump of dead animal every Monday. Last Monday it was a sirloin that overhung the plate. The thought of MxCartney’s horrified phizzog were he to witness my carnivorous gluttony made it all the tastier.
“Contrariness is the appropriate response to control freakery.”
it certainly is. that’s why there are more smokers since the ban. including me.