TY - JOUR
T1 - Tackling climate change
T2 - "plant good, meat bad" is overly simplistic
AU - Ramsay, George
AU - Ramsay, William
AU - Ramsay, Robert
PY - 2020/3/4
Y1 - 2020/3/4
N2 - We agree that climate change is a reality and is related to human activity, but a meat-free conference, as suggested by Morgan, is unlikely to help.1 The impact of meat production on the climate is multifactorial. Destruction of the Amazon for grazing livestock systems is clearly detrimental to the environment. In Scotland, however, farmers have made substantial progress in reducing emissions, which have fallen by 29.4% since 1990,2 with further reductions anticipated. A “plant good, meat bad” narrative is overly simplistic.
AB - We agree that climate change is a reality and is related to human activity, but a meat-free conference, as suggested by Morgan, is unlikely to help.1 The impact of meat production on the climate is multifactorial. Destruction of the Amazon for grazing livestock systems is clearly detrimental to the environment. In Scotland, however, farmers have made substantial progress in reducing emissions, which have fallen by 29.4% since 1990,2 with further reductions anticipated. A “plant good, meat bad” narrative is overly simplistic.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85081043005&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1136/bmj.m805
DO - 10.1136/bmj.m805
M3 - Letter
C2 - 32132001
AN - SCOPUS:85081043005
SN - 0959-8146
VL - 368
JO - BMJ
JF - BMJ
M1 - m805
ER -
