'The Government would fall within a fortnight if it implemented a meat tax,' says the Government's 'food tsar'. Still, reducing meat consumption is the key to addressing climate change.
that followed in June this year, which was largely pre-occupied with ensuring food security and sustainability in an unpredictable world, with the COVID pandemic and Russia's invasion of Ukraine in mind."The Government would fall within a fortnight if it implemented a meat tax," Mr Dimblebythis week.
Agriculture accounts for 68% of land use in England, the Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs reported last year. A said that grazing and crops grown for animal feed combined represented 85% of the UK's total agricultural land footprint."It's an incredibly inefficient use of land to grow crops, feed them to a ruminant or pig or chicken which then over its lifecycle converts them into a very small amount of protein for us to eat," according to Mr Dimbleby.
Mr Dimbleby told The Guardian that a 30% reduction in meat consumption was needed over the next decade for land to be used sustainably in England. "If we fail on this, we will fail to meet our biodiversity or climate goals in this country," he was quoted as saying.
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