Copenhagen Countdown: Hey Paul, there are families in Liverpool that don’t eat meat for a week!
“Telling impressionable young schoolchildren that unless they stop eating meat, polar bears are going to drown, is irresponsible at best and psychological child abuse at worse,” Nick Griffin told journalists as he left a hearing in the European Parliament’s plenary chamber addressed by Sir Paul McCartney.
“When young girls are already susceptible to eating disorders because of the popular press’s infatuation with ‘looking slim’, it’s cavalier to say the least, to put further stipulations on what they should eat.”
The British National Party MEP for the North West of England was unhappy that McCartney was allowed to push his “Less Meat=Less Heat” line without taking any questions.
“His hypothesis is based on information out of the Climate Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. The credibility of this research is now being questioned by academics after accusations that data has been massaged to support the case for man-made climate change,” he said.
“Sir Paul McCartney and his ilk are out of touch with reality. This morning he called for people to stop eating meat for just one day. Maybe he isn’t aware that there are families in his former home town of Liverpool that go for weeks without eating meat simply because they can’t afford it.
“And that’s because the climate change lobby is implementing measures that are pushing up the price of food. Across America nearly a third of agricultural land is now given over to producing biofuels – these fields should be growing crops and grazing cattle to help feed the people of our planet.”
