Letter: English breakfast debate
Your article 'Can a full English give you cancer?' (August 30) seems very 'feel good' for the meat industry.
It is good, in that it is respectful of consumer choice; yet surely there are other things to consider. The health of the planet is one.
I am led to understand that to 'grow' meat is to use more water and more land area than that which would be used to grow crops of vegetables. Please think of how many allotments would fit onto a football pitch; and then how many 'meat animals' with their grazing needs would take to the same area.
Other 'sources' like Animal Aid or the Vegan Society will put this point much better. Then there are the deaths. How many 'meat animals'? How many 'research animals' for every ill human?
ROBERT MASSEY Willoughby Court Lenton
2 Comments
by Patrick, Forest Fileds
Monday, December 15 2008, 10:53PM
“Good points Robert, and fair questions. In response to just one - How many 'meat animals'?
A staggering 55 billion animals are raised for meat every year - 55 billion living beings who have to be fed and watered, all of which results in the consumption of more resources that would be better used feeding the hungry directly.”
by Trevor, Bulwell
Wednesday, September 03 2008, 12:38PM
“Allotments do provide all the year supply of fresh vegetables, however, our council's bad habits are covering allotments with bricks, concrete and tarmac.”