Hillingdon
Vegetarian Day
My suggestion is to have a regular Vegetarian Day in London. This would be not only good for the climate but also your health. The UN says livestock is responsible for nearly one-fifth of global greenhouse gas emissions. Ghent has a Veggie Day every Thursday as they consider the meat industry a significant source of pollution. The population is stimulated to go vegetarian on that day. Ghent has distributed vegetarian street maps to its inhabitants and brochures to all restaurants in the city, showing them why and how to put more veggie dishes on the menu. Schools also offer a vegetarian menu on Thursdays. No one is forced to eat vegetarian food; the idea is to just stimulate and motivate.
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noblesse oblige
London is forward thinking enough to embrace this.
dickie
Great idea! I'm not a veggie but I'm prepared to give it a go. If I become more healthy and also do my bit to fight global warming, it's a win win situation.
richardselliott
I think that this is an interesting and imaginative idea. Other cities (for example, Ghent in Belgium) have run similar schemes which have proved to be highly successful.
cluedup
please correct me if im wrong, but doesnt a dead animal give of zero methane yet a live one emits plenty?, on that logic i suggest eating more meat as ive yet to hear a vegetable fart.
Mike Maybury
This contributor has clearly not read why livestock contributes so much to our carbon footprint. The whole idea of eating farmed ( ususlly factory farmed) meat is very inefficient, compared to eating mainly plant foods. For example , beef required 10 Kg of vegetable protein for every !Kg of steak produced. Best to eat the grains, beans etc direct, improve our health and reduce our carbon footprint.
After this idea is only suggesting reducing our footprint by a nominal amount on one day a week. To help more go veggie for more days. It's simple and your health shuld improve too, so scientific studies show.
cluedup
o,k so if everybody was to go veggie for a day this would put a strain on vegetable production, & dont forget that without Co2 the damn things wont grow in the first place!, & please stop calling Co2 carbon, as there is a vast difference between the two.
LBC2
Or maybe there would be more land available for food production?
markmorley
this is great idea & would make a big difference & create awareness, help food to go further.
danpro
Brilliant idea and I would be 100% behind it and contribute in any way possible.
The facts behind meat consumption are overlooked by parliament and the press as they look to emissions caused by aviation and vehicles, which are dwarfed by those caused by over-farming.
Aside from raising such necessary awareness, it's a great opportunity for foodies and everyone in the community to get together, have fun and experience some new tastes.
alisonc
Yes please - this would be good for people's health, food security in developing countries, and animal welfare, as well as the environment. If Ghent can do it, so can we!
Mike Maybury
Excellent idea. We can all reduce our carbon footprint instantly and at no cost. Better still, as time goes on, have more meat-free days and find your health improving too.
Thor
This won't make one iota of difference to the climate and anyone who thinks it will is living in cloud cuckoo land. Given recent revelations, everybody should treat everything the UN says about climate with the largest possible degree of scepticism.
If people want to be vegetarian, that's up to them, but let's not try and ram it down everybody else's throats eh? Such sanctimonious actions tend to create a backlash.
Stub
Vegeterians have the heating turned up on average 10% higher...more fossil fuels burned