Britain considering making it illegal to be a carnivore
My post caption is an exaggeration, but what’s frightening is that it’s only a slight exaggeration, as a government committee really does advise banning meat as part of its push to reduce greenhouse gases. Right now, it advices using government manipulation to ban these products, but you just know brute force will soon follow:
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.
I like meat. I have canines that bite meat. I have enzymes in my gut that process meat. And I have organs in my body, including my brain, that depend on meat. If people want to be vegetarians, I wholeheartedly support them. I draw the line, though, at living in a nation that sees the government coerce me into abandoning a significant part of my development as a human.
And no, that last statement isn’t just me being hyperbolic. One of my favorite books in the last few years is Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human
