I won’t make Britons cut out meat to meet climate goals, says Starmer
Keir Starmer has skewered efforts by his chief climate change adviser to force people to eat less meat by reducing their intake by the equivalent of two kebabs a week.
Sir Keir was challenged after remarks by Emily Nurse, head of net zero at the Climate Change Committee.
In a recent interview, she said: "We are absolutely not saying everyone needs to be vegan. But we do expect to see a shift in dietary habits to get to net zero.”
If "Sir" Keir were to set himself a target of getting rid of two totalitarian loons a week, he'd struggle to make much of an impression by the next election. With luck he'll be gone long before then, but by a strange quirk of the democratic game, the loons get to stay on.
Odd that, isn't it?
4 comments:
It struck me how much the lifestyle changes demanded by Net Zero reminded me of Prohibition in the States. Good intentions ruined by over zealous enforcement.
If The Zealots That Be continue with this stuff I can see a sharp increase in smuggled 'forbidden foods', steak speakeasies in the back room of vegan cafes etc.
Prohibition didn't work (and arguably made things worse) enforced Net Zero wont work either (and all those black market wood burners will generate greater emissions).
I don't expect any more public bacon consumption from Labour. Of course, Miliband only did it to show that he had renounced his Jewishness enough to be ideologically sound on Palestine, but it would now also be outlawed under the new Islamophobia laws being cooked up by Rayner and Dominic Grieve.
Just been campaigning to get us all to eat more meat ... about to have the chilli.
DJ - another similarity between Prohibition and Net Zero is probably the decline in perceived feasibility. Many reasonably aware Americans must have realised at an early stage that Prohibition wasn't going to work, similarly, many people today must have realised some time ago that Net Zero is a dud.
Sam - yes, Rayner getting together with a toad like Grieve is not a happy thought.
James - we eat more fish than meat, but as the loons are apposed to it we now eat more meat than we used to. Must be some automatic reaction.
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