In recent years there has been a strong lobby advocating to the youth culture through music, as stated in the official handbook for the Live Earth Concerts, “refusing meat [is the] single most effective thing you can do to reduce your carbon footprint”. (Rothschild 2007, p.66). This message is reinforced to the public by such high profile figures including Paul McCartney, in an interview with PETA, McCartney was asked what he thought was the biggest change a person could make to help the environment, to which he answered, "I think the biggest change anyone could make in their own lifestyle would be to become vegetarian.” (PETA April 2008, para. 3)
Click here to read the complete interview with Paul McCartney...
I personally am a vegetarian however I don’t think it is necessarily right to advocate that everyone else should be. I feel that change can only occur when society is informed enough to know the relative impact on the environment when it comes to eating meat versus eating vegetables.
The process of climate change can start with the individual. Once one becomes more educated about the impact of eating meat, then one can educate others. No one should advocate that the world must be vegetarian unless that person is prepared to first educate the world!
Reference list
- Rothschild, D.d. 2007, The Live Earth Global Warming Survival Handbook: 77 Essential Skills to Stop Climate Change, Rodale Books, New York.
- PETA. 2008, The PETA Files, viewed 1 September 2010, <http://blog.peta.org/archives/2008/04/an_interview_wi_2.php>.
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