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Meetings without meat
Tackling climate change: “plant good, meat bad” is overly simplistic
BMJ 2020; 368 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.m805 (Published 04 March 2020) Cite this as: BMJ 2020;368:m805
- George Ramsay, surgical registrar and clinical lecturer1,
- William Ramsay, rural general practitioner2,
- Robert Ramsay, senior consultant3
- 1Rowett Institute for Nutrition and Health, Foresterhill, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen AB25 2ZD, UK
- 2Darvel, UK
- 3Scottish Agricultural College Consulting, Scotland’s Rural College, Ayr Riverside Campus, Ayr, UK
- george.ramsay{at}abdn.ac.uk
We agree that climate change is a reality and is related to human activity, but a meat-free conference, as suggested by Morgan, is unlikely to help.1 The impact of meat production on the climate is multifactorial. Destruction of the Amazon for grazing livestock systems is clearly detrimental to the environment. In Scotland, however, farmers have made substantial progress in reducing emissions, …
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