Eat meat and save the planet, says eco-warrior and former vegetarian
20th September 2010
Simon Fairlie, a farmer and writer, is now shattering the consensus that we should avoid eating any meat or raising any animals in order to save the planet.
In a new book that questions the impact of meat-eating on greenhouse gases, he says the vegan diet espoused by many environmentalists is “neither sensible nor attainable for society as a whole”.
In his new book, Meat: a Benign Extravagance, Mr Fairlie argues there is some surplus and waste in every agricultural system and that animals which eat this surplus have little additional environmental impact.
Sometimes the old ways are best.