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Any Answers on Radio 4 read out the first sentence of my email, right at the end of the programme. My email was regarding comments by the shadow agriculture minister, paraphrased by some as "treat meat eaters like smokers" (which I've now discovered is a somewhat of a simplification of what she actually said). Here is my full email to the programme:
Eating meat isn't comparable with smoking, but neither is it entirely harmless. On an individual level, there are well-established negative health effects associated with eating too much red meat. Meat production – especially beef – has a very high carbon footprint. There are also issues around the efficiency of feeding grain to animals rather than people. For these reasons, I have greatly reduced my consumption of meat, without any ill effects.
Eating meat isn't comparable with smoking, but neither is it entirely harmless. On an individual level, there are well-established negative health effects associated with eating too much red meat. Meat production – especially beef – has a very high carbon footprint. There are also issues around the efficiency of feeding grain to animals rather than people. For these reasons, I have greatly reduced my consumption of meat, without any ill effects.
