Animal-based agriculture

As a species, we should stop all animal-based agriculture on an international scale. The recent report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, Livestock's Long Shadow, makes it clear that the production of animals for food is contributing to global warming.

By The Newsroom

Published 3rd Feb 2007, 00:00 BST

To put this problem in context, livestock production is responsible for 18 per cent of total global greenhouse gas emissions, while transport accounts for only 13.5 per cent.

We have no need to kill animals for food, since not only is a plant-based diet entirely adequate for human nutrition, it is also much healthier.

JAMES BOYLE

Eastwoodmains Road

Clarkston, Glasgow

Glasgow