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Last modified on Sun 25 Apr 2021 06.58 EDT The UK business secretary, Kwasi Kwarteng, is considering a “full vegan diet” to help tackle climate change, saying people will need to make lifestyle changes if the government is to meet its new emissions target of a 78% reduction on 1990 levels by 2035. But how much difference would it make if everyone turned to a plant-based diet? Experts say changing the way we eat is necessary for the future of the planet but that government policy is needed alongside this. If politicians are serious about wanting dietary changes, they also need to incentivi...

Organic meat, usually highlighted as friendlier to the environment, actually has a climate cost as high as conventionally farmed meat. According to a new study, which estimated the greenhouse gas emissions (GEI) resulting from different foods in Germany, the only eco-friendly meat is no meat at all. Image credit: Flickr / Oli A team of German researchers wanted to explore the “invisible” environmental costs of food production, from land use and fertilizers to methane emissions and transportation. They focused on meat products, dairy, and plant-based food and compared organic and conventio...

Last modified on Wed 23 Dec 2020 23.37 EST The cost of the climate damage caused by organic meat production is just as high as that of conventionally farmed meat, according to research. The analysis estimated the greenhouse gas emissions resulting from different foods and calculated how much their prices would need to rise to cover the harm they cause by fuelling the climate emergency. For beef and lamb, organic and conventional production resulted in similar climate costs, the study found. Organic chicken was slightly worse for the climate and organic pork slightly better than their conventi...

On the meter THE legal aid bill of the convicted husband of a senior Crown prosecutor has now topped £35,000 – with more public money still to come. Stephen Roberts, the husband of Nicky Patrick, Scotland’s procurator fiscal for homicide and crime, was convicted of running companies when he was disqualified as a director. As I revealed previously, Patrick held the largest shareholding in one of them, Log Six, although there is no suggestion that she knew about the management of the business. Roberts was due to be sentenced on Monday at Kilmarnock Sheriff Court but the case has be...

What’s the Bull? In 2019, then Taoiseach Leo Varadkar said he was “trying to eat less meat both for health reasons and for reasons of climate change”. Outrage ensued but was he right? Should we all change our diet for our health and the planet? The environment question In 2019, RTÉ introduced the TV licence-holding public to a new show concept, What Planet Are You On? The premise is that four families go head to head to reduce the climate impact of their lives for a cash prize. Four areas are tackled – waste, water, energy and diet. A number of scientists judge the families’ pe...