UK Public now Eating Significantly Less Meat

[Muck Spreader]

Every young person l know are never away from mcdonald, nandos, KFC. Those places are full of young teens and the butchers in the town has the longest queue still outside on the pavement, so l would nt worry, farmers have the biggest thing going, every one on the planet has to eat, that will never change.

Don't be fooled into thinking that McDonalds or any other chain wouldn't wouldn't sell us out in a second if it didn't fit their marketing strategy. It's not by accident that billions is currently being invested in developing synthetic or plant based burgers.

 

[Whitepeak]

Tbh I'd much prefer the public to eat a couple of meals a week without meat, but when they do eat meat buy high quality, high welfare British meat at a high price. Rather than have poor quality (imported), very cheap meat every meal!

 

[Ffermer Bach]

It’s a sad fact of life that the younger generation either don’t know how to cook ‘proper’ meat, or can’t be bothered to take the time to prepare a meat meal.

also women who don't want to "touch" meat while cooking it, so that means that they won't cook a real meal from scratch. Daughter happy to draw a turkey, but does not want to touch meat in a kitchen! Try to work that out, but her mother did not want to touch meat, so I guess she inherited or copied that from her.

 

[primmiemoo]

also women who don't want to "touch" meat while cooking it, so that means that they won't cook a real meal from scratch. Daughter happy to draw a turkey, but does not want to touch meat in a kitchen! Try to work that out, but her mother did not want to touch meat, so I guess she inherited or copied that from her.

Watch QVC when the sales people are pitching vegetarian food. Even more interesting when touting vegan stuff. They pull faces as part of the carefully choreographed patter when mentioning meat.

 

[Red Fred]

I've managed to reduce my intake of bulls**t by 99% over the last 3 years by ditching the tellie license and not listening to Jeremy Vine, but I can't quite make it 100% as I still listen to Popmaster,. The 10 O Clock news this morning carried the meat story at the end with the self righteous study lady explaining that 17% was a hopeful start on reducing "harmful red meat" (I think thaose were her exact words), but we still need to reach 30% in the next 10 years. I maintain that the BBC is far more harmful to my health than any meat I might eat.

 

[Ffermer Bach]

If people stop eating meat, they will replace that with either ultra processed food or carbs (or both), then the health problems will lead to reduced life expectancy and increased diabetes, as well top soil losses from not integrating animals into the farming system, all depressing if we think too much about it.

 

[kfpben]

If people stop eating meat, they will replace that with either ultra processed food or carbs (or both), then the health problems will lead to reduced life expectancy and increased diabetes, as well top soil losses from not integrating animals into the farming system, all depressing if we think too much about it.

Doctors alerted to dangerous dry scooping workout trend

Pre-workout powders should be diluted in water, but some gym-goers are eating it neat.

www.bbc.co.uk

Like this kind of carry on

 

[tje]

Rather ironic that BBC news went from 25 million viewers to 18 million viewers in the five years to 2019 , at the rate the rate bbc is losing viewers no one will be watching them way before people stop eating red meat .

Can't find any recent viewing figure data , I wonder why ??

 

[Princess Pooper]

So, if meat consumption is down (a recent informal survey of our family concluded it was) but livestock prices are good, why panic? (Unless you are a pig producer, but that is a different issue).

 

[Treg]

"Savills UK | UK meat consumption" https://www.savills.co.uk/research_articles/229130/298951-0

 

[Bald Rick]

Some Prof from Cambridge University has published a report telling supermarkets to increase price of meat & dairy products and to ensure that vegetable & alternative options were placed prominently next to said meats & dairy products.
Wonder who subbed her research?

Increase Meat Prices to Tackle Climate Change, Cambridge Report Says

A report produced by Cambridge University academics has called for dairy and meat to be made more expensive in order to save the planet.

www.breitbart.com

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Any farmer who still pays their tv licence should be shot at dawn

 

[Red Fred]

The BBC is the broadcasting equivalent of processed food, pouring ground up and easily digested pulp into the heads of their diminishing public. I haven't registered with their gestapo to let them know I don't have a TV as I still believe we should be innocent until proven guilty and shouldn't have to explain why we don't want to conform. As a result, I'm getting increasingly threatening letters which inform me that on 15th October, my details will be passed to the Bristol enforcement team who will place my house under investigation and their operatives will be paying me a visit.
There is a line of thought that says that simply not watching TV is like burying your head in the sand, but I don't see why I should pay the wages of people who promote an end to my way of life. Time saved by not watching TV can be more usefully spent on interactive media where at least you can debate alternative points of view.. From their own figures, I see the number of licenses has been static and dropped by half a million over the last decade while there are 6% more households, and I know quite a few folks who don't watch any more.

 

[Yale]

Eating the veggie option is for poor people.

People who have poor knowledge.

Eating good quality sustainable meat from reputable retailer is doing your bit for climate change.

Not eating synthesised energy hungry vegan slop.

 

[Hampton]

I can’t see how eating avocado, lentils, soya and almonds can reduce emissions compared to eating local butcher British beef (or in fact any British beef)

 

[Ffermer Bach]

I can’t see how eating avocado, lentils, soya and almonds can reduce emissions compared to eating local butcher British beef (or in fact any British beef)

but they allow you to Virtue Signal!

 

[D14]

The BBC in full flow this morning. The agenda is writ large

UK public now eating significantly less meat

Britons are cutting their meat consumption, but not quickly enough, according to scientists.

www.bbc.co.uk

Load of rubbish in my view. One of my closest friends has a very successful restaurant and he was only saying last week, meat sales in particular beef are through the roof beating any other period in his 20 years of trading. He said if anything chicken has tailed off in favour of fish but there is no call for vegan stuff at all.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Looking at the study (led by a scientist supporting 'the development and testing of behavioural intentions to encourage people to reduce their meat consumption', according to her profile at Oxford Martin School) there appears to be an usually high base in the 2008-09 data especially for women's self reported meat consumption. If one takes the base year instead to 2009-10 the decline is minimal. Would be interesting to know if they have any data points in prior years, otherwise the conclusions may need to be taken with some scepticism.

Trends in UK meat consumption: analysis of data from years 1–11 (2008–09 to 2018–19) of the National Diet and Nutrition Survey rolling programme

Despite the overall reduction in meat intake, reaching meat-consumption targets that align with sustainable diets will require a substantial acceleration of this trend.

www.thelancet.com

Christ alive that Lancet article you linked is a veritable treasure trove of misinformation.

 

[Old apprentice]

It should come as no surprise since the Carrie Johnson government has an agenda to seriously reduce meat consumption in the UK and free up land for rewilding. And there are plenty of powerful lobby groups and Tory donors who whish to deflect criticism away from their particular carbon polluting businesses to farm livestock.

That is what it is all about.

 

[texelburger]

Whilst at the same time the BBC reporting that the government is determined to continue building 300,000 plus new homes each year as if this has no effect whatever!
Such biased political bull sh!t !!
17% reduction in the eating of meat over the last ten years compared with how many new house built over that same time scale plus additional cars to accommodate migrants to the UK, which is harming the planet more?

Add the extra ships and planes.What infuriates me is the Government desperation to do trade deals around the World and all the vast emissions as a consequence.So product A is shipped half way round the World only for the same product to returned.
What needs to be done is to produce as much as we can here in the UK in a sustainable manner.Not only farming but all manufacturing.You only have to look at the current gas situation as an example.