Vegan diet aids Earth (From Oxford Mail)

Vegan diet aids Earth

3:34pm Wednesday 14th January 2009 in Letters

We share the concerns of your reader, Susan Thomas (Oxford Mail, December 25) over the burning of wood.

We have also been campaigning for ‘green’ politicians to impose a ban on the burning of bonfires and the sale of fireworks, on public health and safety grounds.

This is not the only area in which ‘green’ politicians, both locally and nationally, are displaying impotence on a grand scale.

In their campaign leaflets they constantly fail to promote the benefits of adopting a vegan lifestyle, against all the scientific evidence that animal farming contributes to global warming on a massive scale.

Up to 1.4 billion people could be fed on the amount of grain and soy beans fed to farmed animals in the USA alone, and 18 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions are produced by animals raised for food, as opposed to the 13 per cent of greenhouse gas emissions produced by all forms of motorised transport in the world combined.

There is, consequently, no such thing as a meat-eating environmentalist. And while these people remain silent on these issues, the global meat industry promotes its trade throughout the media.

The cost to the NHS is a rise in cancers of the colon and prostate; obesity; heart disease and dementia, as a direct result of eating animal produce.

MR AND MRS E SANDERSON, Great Clarendon Street, Jericho, Oxford