According the the government's favourite climate change propagandist and professional fuckwit, Lord Stern, farming animals for food is evil and is a bigger contributor to climate change than carbon dioxide. Therefore we should all become vegetarians. Is there no end to the lunacy that these watermelons are prepared to foist upon us.

Lord Stern, the author of the influential 2006 Stern Review on the cost of tackling global warming, said that a successful deal at the Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen in December would lead to soaring costs for meat and other foods that generate large quantities of greenhouse gases.

Oh I get it...even though there's no proof that global warming exists or is even caused by carbon dioxide or methane, the commie environmentalists are going to ensure that livestock farmers are going to be taxed out of existence.

He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat eating became unacceptable. “I think it’s important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating,” he said. “I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.”

WTF!? All life on earth is carbon-based you stupid arsewipe., it is the building block for carbohydrates and proteins. The only time I worry about the carbon content of my food is when I've burnt the toast - if it is salvageable, the black bits get scraped off into the kitchen sink.

He said that he was deeply concerned that popular opinion had so far failed to grasp the scale of the changes needed to address climate change, or of the importance of the UN meeting in Copenhagen from December 7 to December 18. “I am not sure that people fully understand what we are talking about or the kind of changes that will be necessary,” he added.

Oh but we do...we understand that what the Copenhagen Treaty is proposing is to send the western economies back to the fucking Dark Ages and is the implementation of threats and menaces to the countries that are unable or unwilling to meet arbitrary carbon emission targets - targets that will make fuck all difference to the way the climate works or changes. Don't you get it, fuckface? How arrogant do you have to be to think that a lifeform as insignificant as mankind has the ability to change the climate of the planet because we eat meat or drive to the shops to buy meat. It's quite simple. We haven't, we can't and we won't.

Up to 20,000 delegates from 192 countries are due to attend the UN conference in the Danish capital.

Twenty thousand! And how are they getting to Copenhagen? I'll bet they aren't going to fucking walk.

Its aim is to forge a deal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions sufficiently to prevent an increase in global temperatures of more than 2 degrees centigrade. Any increase above this level is expected to trigger runaway climate change, threatening the lives of hundreds of millions of people.

Well, given that we are in a cooling period, that isn't difficult, is it? Seems to me it's a bit like confiscating everyone's money to build a gold tower to keep sabre-toothed tigers out of the UK. What's that? There are no sabre-toothed tigers in the UK? See I told you it would work.

Su Taylor, a spokeswoman for the Vegetarian Society, welcomed Lord Stern’s remarks. “What we choose to eat is one of the biggest factors in our personal impact on the environment,” she said. “Meat uses up a lot of resources and a vegetarian diet consumes a lot less land and water. One of the best things you can do about climate change is reduce the amount of meat in your diet.”

Jesus wept. Another deluded fuckwit. If we stopped eating meat, we'd eat a fuck of lot more vegetables. So the environmentl impact is going to be more or less the same, because the same land will be needed to GROW food. We are omnivores, it's they way we have evolved and we need animal protein to thrive and if you think I'm going to give up pork sausages and mash for quorn sausages and mash Su, you are very much mistaken.

Update: Lord Stern's article has been picked up in the USA - if ever there was proof that being a vegetarian rots the brain, read some of the comments on this Discover article. Like this one:

I’m not a vegetarian for the sake of my health, I’m a vegetarian for the health of the planet.

When people are as gullible as this, I have to wonder how the human race has survived on the planet as long as we have.