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~~~Secret Red ^^ Squirrel~~~ **007 1/2** Report 25 Nov 2009 21:43

"Let me tell you the story of a classic Whitehall farce, a tale of how the government came within a whisker of advocating bovine genocide.
It all began when officials at the Department of Health decided to part-fund a piece of independent research looking at how health professionals could help combat the effects of climate change.
The boffins came up with a rather courageous idea. Why not kill 30% of Britain's cows and sheep?
Not only would this help save the environment; it would also make us healthier.
The theory goes like this: if you have less ruminant livestock, you emit less climate-damaging methane into the atmosphere.
You also have less meat to eat, which means less saturated fat in our diets and thus less heart disease.
Officials liked the wheeze so much they decided Health Secretary Andy Burnham should give a speech at the launch of the report by the Lancet medical journal.
There Mr Burnham congratulated the Lancet on its "timely report".
The Department of Health put out a handy press release summarising the report's conclusions.
It even rang up the Department of Energy and Climate Change and got it involved.
A useful quote from Climate Change Secretary Ed Miliband was included on the press release.

Not to be outdone, a quote from international development minister Mike Foster was produced. All agreed that health and climate change could be two sides of the same coin.
There was only one problem: no one had bothered to tell the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) and, as its name suggests, it is in charge of cows.
Defra officials gently pointed out that perhaps the "kill-a-cow, save-the-world" policy might have a few flaws "

More at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8379759.stm

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 25 Nov 2009 22:06

LOL - usual half thought out Cr*p - and yet another attempt to try to 'control' the lives of the population.

I wish politicians would stick to politics and leave our lifestyles out of it.
If I could claim more than I earn a year in 'expenses' I would be a very happy bunny - so why can't I?

Researching:
Henry Floyd (g x 4 grandad) Allegedly the heaviest man in England in 1842

Maddiecow

Maddiecow Report 25 Nov 2009 22:48

Now Now ,,,,,kill a cow?

Researching:
Powell, Chappell, Haffenden, Elliot, O'Shaughnessy