Climate warnings on food would help reduce Irish people’s ‘over consumption of meat’, a leading environmentalist has claimed.
According to the United Nations, 14% of all the world’s greenhouse gas emissions come from livestock.
“So, roughly one in 10 people looked at these warnings and went, ‘Maybe I can skip it this particular meal.’”Mr Gibbons said even if the climate was not an issue, people should be cutting back for the sake of their health. “It’s reckoned that if people in countries like Ireland, if we consumed meat products at a safe level, medically safe levels, the effect of that in terms of the reduction in the amount of meat produced globally would actually cut emissions from the entire agricultural sector by 20%.
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