介绍:
People in Britain were given a bizarre warning this week.
They were told to cut down on eating tomato baked beans because of the impact of “smelly emissions” on global warming.
Climate Change Minister Lady Verma urged the public to “moderate” their behaviour after another lawmaker raised questions in the country’s upper chamber about the impact of human eating habits.
Concerns had also previously been voiced about the effect of methane coming from cows.
Comments
Qinduo
Jake on the daily mirror website says “Oh, come on this is silly. I’m sure in some way everything we eat affects the planet. What about all the rubbish from packaging?
Ben
Kate also from the mirror website writes “It’s true! It might be something to laugh at but we need to take things like this seriously. We won’t be laughing when the planet has gone down the toilet.
Mike
On twitter we have Nathan who says...” A few years ago I remember a study saying something similar and the spiteful British public laughed it off. We won’t be laughing soon.
A study last December suggested nearly £340million of baked beans were sold in the UK in 2012.
Carbon dioxide from fossil fuels is the primary gas causing global warming but methane has an effect more than 20 times greater.
Animals such as cows produce a sixth of all the planet’s methane, but the worldwide human methane output has been calculated as accounting for just 1/5,000th of our greenhouse gas emissions.
Qinduo
Also on twitter Serrane says…. “ This might be funny to ignorant, immature people but I actually care about the planet and my country. If we have to stop eating beans then so be it”.
Mike
From the daily mail website Doris writes “Just because some opposition upstart says something in parliament and we all get frightened! This is the typical left-wing loony eco rubbish I have come to expect.
Ben
And finally also from the daily mail’s website, Yoshi says …”hang on a second. So the government is telling me to stop eating so many beans because of bad emissions, yet pollution is at a record high in the UK because of cars and other things. I’m sure when they put a tax on it’ll be ok to eat beans again.
