Just by way of follow up to the 'Feeding our Food' campaign, here's the answer to a PQ I asked just before prorogation.
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Kerry McCarthy
Labour Candidate for Bristol East
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As Monica says in Friends, "rules are good, rules help control the fun!"
First: if you're after a detailed response, please email or write to me. If you're a constituent (or perhaps a very special case), I'll respond; if you're not, you'll have to contact your own MP. Ditto if you want to introduce a subject which bears no relevance to my original post.
Second: I don't have a problem with trenchant criticism of me or the Government, or vociferously expressed opinions, but if I regard your comments as offensive I won't allow them to appear. (I don't like having to moderate comments, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that people cannot be relied upon not to abuse my good nature!)
First: if you're after a detailed response, please email or write to me. If you're a constituent (or perhaps a very special case), I'll respond; if you're not, you'll have to contact your own MP. Ditto if you want to introduce a subject which bears no relevance to my original post.
Second: I don't have a problem with trenchant criticism of me or the Government, or vociferously expressed opinions, but if I regard your comments as offensive I won't allow them to appear. (I don't like having to moderate comments, but have reluctantly come to the conclusion that people cannot be relied upon not to abuse my good nature!)
Thirdly: I might just randomly delete comments from certain people because I'm getting thoroughly fed up with them and want them to go away and annoy someone else for a while. You know who you are.
That's all - although I reserve the right to create new rules as and when I feel like it. My blog = my rules!From under the floorboards
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4 comments:
"Paul Flynn...tells me he got an email recently saying (and I paraphrase) 'all Labour MPs are going to hell in a handcart at the next election, except you and Kerry McCarthy who'll be fine, because you're both mad'."
Uncanny. I have alluded to something similar on Paul's blog a few times, yes, that's right, you were included Kerry.
Have you seen them? I can try and find them if you want.
Shall I try and predict the winner of the X Factor as well?
The answer is right in saying that the 18% figure (ie contribution to greenhouse gases from animal production) is likely to be the right order of magnitude.
Ecological footprint studies give an estimated meat footprint of 6.9-14.6 hectare years per tonne. Even at the low end of the range this is the highest of any food type. The range is broad because impacts depend a lot of whether animals are pasture fed or grain fed.
For info: fruit and veg figure is 0.3-0.6; fish 4.5-6.6; milk 1.1-1.9; pulses 3.6-4.4; and grain 1.7-2.8.
I'm going to do a lot of reading up on this over Christmas, but in the meantime... how does the fish figure come about? Catching and processing? Or impact of over-fishing?
'... how does the fish figure come about?'
I've looked this up Kerry. This estimate is based on global protein yield from fish. They calculated the total energy used to get it, including all transport, processing, use and disposal, in this case assuming the energy source was diesel fuel. Fish farming was apparently not included.
I suspect that the figures are an underestimate. The sources of potential error in all such figures are large but they are useful for relative comparisons of different food types as long as the same method is used each time.
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