Nanny State Want Its People to Be Vegan

Voters are

Oh the British government just never knows when to actually sit up and grow up. It insists on treating the voters like children, it about time they stopped doing that and realised that the voters that elected them are all “big people” now and capable of making decisions for themselves.

The latest suggestion put forward for consideration from somewhere inside the machinery that is our government is this:

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The public must be introduced slowly to the idea of becoming vegans. The change would need to be done "gently" because of a "risk of alienating the public", according to the document. The extreme policy is being examined on the basis it could make a major contribution to slowing climate change. Farm animals are blamed for producing huge amounts of the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide.

However, the National Farmers' Union has ridiculed the idea as "simplistic".

The e-mail, sent to a vegetarian campaign group, comes from an official at the Environment Agency, a Government advisory body.
It states: "The potential benefit of a vegan diet in terms of climate impact could be very significant." However, it does recognise that it would be very difficult to win public support for such a move.

Consequently, it says the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs is looking to encourage a gradual change that would be more palatable to the general public. The e-mail states: "It will be a case of introducing this gently as there is a risk of alienating the public majority." The official goes on to say it is "unlikely" that the Environment Agency would ever suggest adopting a fully vegan lifestyle.

The e-mail was sent to the campaigning vegetarian organisation Viva, which argues that it is more efficient to use land to grow crops for humans, rather than feeding them to farm animals and dairy cows. Viva director Juliet Gellatley said: "I think it is extraordinary that a Government agency thinks becoming a vegetarian or vegan could have such a positive impact for the environment yet it is not prepared to stand up and argue the case.

"There is a growing awareness that our diet directly affects the world around us - and that vegetarians and vegans contribute far less to the destruction of the environment. For our planet's sake there is an urgent need to move away from a meat and dairy-obsessed Western diet."

NFU communications chief Anthony Gibson rejected these claims as "simplistic and flawed".

Flawed, simplistic? Understatement if ever there was one. If I was the one who sent the email with the ludicrous suggestion, I would be highly embarrassed to show my face at work.

I am not going to get into all the arguments as to why this is a stupid idea, because it would be stating the obvious, what I will say though is this:

I‘ll be splayed over a spit barbeque myself for a slow roasting before I give up meat or fish, milk or cheese etc. Yech can you just imagine your morning cup of tea without milk…..shudders?

Hear Me Nanny Britain I am not going to give up these fine foods, my diet choices are my own to make, I do not need you to attempt to brainwash me however gently into eating something I do not enjoy and making me stop eating what I do enjoy! Take care of your own dietary needs and leave mine well alone!

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It just makes one sad. If everyone stops eating farm animals, we're going to have a lot of farm animals around. I'm sure animal rights activists aren't going to allow them to just be killed, so where are all these farm animals going to go? Global warming will be worse if we don't eat these creatures, I say. So grab a burger, steak, and a glass of milk.

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So grab a burger, steak, and a glass of milk.

now you are talking

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so where are all these farm animals going to go?

exactly.

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If everyone stops eating farm animals, we're going to have a lot of farm animals around. I'm sure animal rights activists aren't going to allow them to just be killed, so where are all these farm animals going to go?

. uh...would there be so many farm animals if we didn't raise them to become food? Great logic...

I'm not saying that everyone should be vegetarians, but do people really need to consume the amount of meat that they do? Meat consumption is at an all time high- funny thing is: so is obesity and heart attacks.

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Right, if we hadn't already raised them, there wouldn't be so many. But there already are so many. So we should eat lots of meat, and THEN become vegans, if this plan is going to work.

Consumption is at an all time high. Not just of meat.

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