Britain will be all veggie by 2076
BRITAIN is going veggie. If current trends published recently by the Government continue, the UK will be fully vegetarian by 2076!
Figures from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs show that last year over 13 million fewer farmed land animals were slaughtered in the UK than the year before. The trend is continuing downwards, with nearly 50 million fewer killed in 2008 than in 2005.
More of us than ever before are going veggie to save lives – the average Brit can save up to 11,047 animals in a lifetime by simply not eating them! Many are cutting out meat for environmental reasons – especially as livestock farming causes more global warming gasses than the entire world's transport system put together. Going veggie also fights poverty – by allowing people in developing countries to eat crops rather than feeding them to our farmed animals.
Justin Kerswell,
Viva!
York Court,
Wilder Street
Bristol.
2 Comments
by Chris, Derby
Thursday, May 21 2009, 10:43AM
“So all animals that were bred as food will n longer be required, the countryside will be left to get overgrown with weeds or worse, built on and all livestock will need to be slaughtered and breeding will cease - no one will keep herds of cattle, sheep of pigs if they need to be fed and looked after without some means of recovering the cost.
We are indeed omnivores and the countryside needs livestock farming to keep it alive. I do understand that the thought of killing an animal for food can be unpleasant but this is the way things are and vegitarianism is a personal choice and should remain so, just as eating meat is a personal choice.”
by Mark, Derby
Wednesday, May 20 2009, 8:06AM
“You what?
Veggiezealots R US seem to be invading this paper lately.
WE'RE OMNIVORES YOU MUPPET.
Or did you get your canine teeth removed to prove your dedication to vegetation?”