Bite Me, You Filthy Vegan

The Economist demands you give up your sirloin to save the planet

The Economist might want to rename their publication The Communist.

The once great magazine - they used to have a BigMac Index to measure purchasing power - has gone full vegan.

At the weekend they wrote …

“Beef emits 31 times more CO₂ per calorie of food than tofu does.

“By cooking so many cows, humans are cooking themselves, too.

Forgoing steaks may be one of the most efficient ways to reduce our carbon footprint.”

Seriously? A publican which campaigns for drugs to be legalised now wants a rump steak banned?

So what if forgoing meat reduces carbon emissions. I’ve heard that throwing vegans into volcanoes is a good way of offsetting carbon emissions. How about we try that?

Beef is not bad for the environment. But even if a sirloin was harmful to the earth, it takes a thousand times than tofu.

I suggest we get the staff at The Economist to give up meat first. And then, after we measure the difference their embrace of veganism makes to global temperatures, we’ll decide whether the rest of us should follow suit.

Give up barbecues by all means. But the only thing cooked is The Economist’s reputation as a non-ideological magazine.