Global Warming: Joanna Lumley Says Meat Will Murder Us All In The Times
GLOBAL warming is killing us all. Killing the polar bears. We need help. And who does the Times turn to? Why actress Joanna Lumley, naturally.
“I prefer not to eat food that has a face,” says Joanna, turning away from our proffered packet of Jelly Babies.
“But many of my nearest and dearest love their meat, and who am I to ask them not to eat so much of it? Until now, that is?”
What changed, Joanna? Says she: “Studies in Europe, America and Japan have shown that the more meat in your diet, the greater the global warming potential and the lower its energy efficiency in your body.”
A fact! And another fact: “Producing your average Sunday joint of roast beef results in greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to driving from London to Manchester.”
Lumley advocates a “couple of meat free days a week” and suggests eating one lamb chop not two; never driving to Manchester on an empty stomach; and “maybe substituting daily milk and cream with equivalents made from soya beans or oats”.
As a vegetarian, Lumley is well placed to speak about how the rest of us should eat meat.
(For future reference, though, Lumley should also know that lamb chops do not have a face but are made of meat taken from the animal’s sides. Although an arrangement of carrots batons (lips), peas (eyes) and broccoli (hair) can produce a face-like tableau.)
Posted: 16th, October 2007 | In: Broadsheets, Global Warming Comments (17) | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed: RSS 2.0 | TrackBack | Permalink
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November 12th, 2007 at 1:45 pm
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October 21st, 2007 at 4:25 pm
Be kind to animals, don’t eat em. The French eat snails, lets save the environment and eat the French. Problem solved
Dave
October 17th, 2007 at 7:25 pm
only when we embrace and celebrate the fact that we are all different will we ever truly find peace and i do not believe it is in our nature.
and climate change has been happening for millions of years - people who blame it on humans have a very human agenda greed and power
we have no control or influance on nature
floods /tidal waves/famine/hurricanes are natural and would continue even if humans didn’t exist
and that is truly AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH mr gore
October 17th, 2007 at 1:03 pm
10. How can a vegetable scream without vocal chords, a mouth, or a tongue? And how can it feel pain without a central nervous system?
The worst thing about being a vegetarian is knowing how many field mice get killed by the combine harvesters every year - I rescued one from a field that had three of it’s legs sliced off. I got him to a vet and he lived, I kept him as a pet and he managed to wriggle about quite well. He lived 3 years, so I think he was happy.
October 17th, 2007 at 12:19 pm
perhaps the answer is then define territory with eggshells?
Ah, but Pagans never did pretend to be anything other than Heathens etc, and who was that guy who was crucified. Human ’sacrifice ‘has always been with us, funny thing though how the sacrificed and the sacrificer are never the same people.
Humanity vs meteor to end it all?
probably humanity just to annoy the meteor, anyway PC wouldn’t allow for a pretty alright society, what about those who couldn’t , we must be fair to them too……..
October 17th, 2007 at 12:11 pm
Pagans didn’t fight religious wars, but they still had wars over territory and resources, and they did sacrifice each other for a good harvest, which I don’t think I’d volunteer for.
I don’t think our basic human nature can change - but if we learn how to share resources fairly while still leaving scope for a bit of ruthless greed (or else the boredom would kill us), I think we could create a pretty alright society - till a meteor wipes us out.
And slugs are wonderful. They’re very smart and loyal (really, I’m not joking).
October 17th, 2007 at 11:58 am
Mandrake screams as it leaves the ground.
Back to the meat options with all the steroids antibiotics and preservatives being pumped into living animals, does anyone really want all that crap in their system?
Karen, thankgoodness you were joking, but a lot aren’t and really do believe Mother Nature /Earth/Deity are out to get us and with a vengeance. But Nature itself does abhor a vacuum, and just loves to start life anyway. But afraid slugs one eyed or two are kept at bay by eggshells, but my dogs are just gorgeous.
Anyway it was Christianity that started all the fights, Pagan life was fairly quiet in that aspect.
Mankind is a bastard, but it COULD change,all things are possible….but then one has ones dogs
October 17th, 2007 at 11:12 am
I researched that it takes 3 to 5 days to properly digest and rid your body (sparing you the gross bits) of red meat. That alone turned me to chicken and fish. Other than making a surprise visit to the chicken farms and travelling with the salmon fishermen
to make sure our future food is treated as humanely as possible, I don’t see what clout we really have with our providers. Public opinion doesn’t seem to sway them…What I do is eat chicken and fish and use that energy to help other animals that cross my path
(animal rescue, SPCA, etc.) and pray for forgiveness if I’m doing something wrong. I read several years ago that a scientist recorded a vegetable screaming as it was torn from the ground…maybe someday we’ll take synthetic food pills raised in a gleaming laboratory and our consciences will be clear (until we read that the Petrie dish screamed as the pill was torn from its womb)…Sigh.
October 17th, 2007 at 10:46 am
Albert - we’ve always been cruel to each other. And in my village there has been progress. The last murder was fifty years ago. No one gets mugged and we can still leave our doors open - where as in the past we had constant feuding between the two clans that owned land in the area, we had the English invade, we had the Presbyterians persecuted, then the Catholics, then the Presbyterians by the Anglicans, then the Anglicans, then the Jacobites, then the Presbyterians fell out with each other, then the native Scots and immigrant Irish had fights over strike breaking, then we had Socialist Riots and then Hurrah! we got rich and turned into a suburb.
October 17th, 2007 at 9:57 am
“I’m vegetarian because I cannot abide the inhumanity of Mankind and its cruel despatch of animals, and that can be changed”
Don’t know if you’ve noticed it but it has.
Now mankind is cruel both to animals and each other!
Progress - isn’t it wonderful?
October 17th, 2007 at 4:01 am
Also, June, are you implying my dog is a minger? Of course she’s cute. I also have a pet slug called One-eye - and damn it he’s cute too.
October 17th, 2007 at 3:57 am
June, I was joking - although I must say, what do you mean nature has nothing to do with nature?
Okay Mother Nature doesn’t have a consciousness and therefore doesn’t have any intentions - but what I meant to say was, I hate reality. And we can stop flying and stay holed up in our eco-friendly homes all we like - we’re still going to die, there still would plagues, famines, flash-floods, fires, droughts and all the rest. We’re still an animal stuck on a rock in the middle of a solar system that will supernova one day leaving absolutely no trace of the Earth never mind our brief tenancy of it.
I agree with anorak - TRIAL NOW!
October 17th, 2007 at 3:10 am
Eating meat is rubbish! Ask any Gorilla/Monkey. Well, not all of them. Ask any whale!
October 16th, 2007 at 6:08 pm
If God didn’t want us to eat animals why did he make so many of them taste good?
Yes, join your local branch of PETA…..
People Eating Tasty Animals
love,
Dave the carnivore.
October 16th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
Karen - what with the mud slides, the quakes and the ‘canoes, we should lynch the bitch or put her on trial for MURDER!
October 16th, 2007 at 1:43 pm
Earthquakes and volcanoes are purely to do with the formation of the planet, a complex geological and natural process, and the same with the weather.
Yes you are right we are born to die, all things are, nothing to do with Mother Nature especially, just the way it is!
Animals are cute?????????????
I’m vegetarian because I cannot abide the inhumanity of Mankind and its cruel despatch of animals, and that can be changed
October 16th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
I’m a vegetarian because I think animals are cute and I hate killing, but I don’t give a crap about the environment. I hate Mother Nature not only does she trash herself with earthquakes, volcanic eruptions and crappy weather, she kills every last one of us - in fact we’re born purely to multiply and then die - as far as I’m concerned I OWE HER NOTHING!