Good post AB. And GP, I happen to be one person who changed their diet for the sake of ethics, if only by not eating meat until the evening, but a small sacrafice that makes a very small difference but, I would like to think, a good example. Not too farcical is it?

Dave, people aren’t going to alter their intake of red meat for the purpose of greenhouse gas abatement. Any such suggestion is farcical!

I’m just drawing attention to the fact that reducing consumption of products from livestock will undoubtedly assist in reducing greenhouse emissions. You may not think there is a need to reduce greenhouse emissions, but a majority of Australians do.

People don’t have to ’stop eating meat’ any more than they have to stop driving cars, but changing their behaviour to significantly reduce their consumption of both will be needed if there is to be any chance of getting atmospheric concentration of greenhouse gases to levels that most climate scientists believe are needed to stop major rapid climate change.

I don’t know if people will change their behaviour once they are aware of these facts or not, but that’s no reason not to mention them.