{"id":30817,"date":"2021-09-26T17:28:56","date_gmt":"2021-09-26T17:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/350ppm.co.uk\/?p=30817"},"modified":"2021-09-26T17:28:56","modified_gmt":"2021-09-26T17:28:56","slug":"celebrities-urge-world-leaders-at-climate-talks-to-curb-animal-farming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/350ppm.co.uk\/blog\/celebrities-urge-world-leaders-at-climate-talks-to-curb-animal-farming\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities urge world leaders at climate talks to curb animal farming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Joanna Lumley and Alesha Dixon also among 18 stars warning world will fail to limit disastrous temperature rises without radical changes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As per a recent article published by the Independent, a host of stars including\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/billie-eilish\">Billie Eilish<\/a>, Moby,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/joaquin-phoenix\">Joaquin Phoenix<\/a>\u00a0and Stephen Fry are urging the government to get world leaders to debate\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/animal-agriculture\">animal agriculture<\/a>\u00a0at the upcoming climate crisis summit because of the environmental damage it causes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eighteen celebrities have written to MP&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/alok-sharma\">Alok Sharma<\/a>, president of the Cop26 conference, asking him and other&nbsp;delegates to \u201cformally and publicly recognise the role of animal agriculture as one of the largest contributors to climate change\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other stars signing the letter are: Ricky Gervais,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/joanna-lumley\">Joanna Lumley<\/a>, Deborah Meaden, Harry Potter star&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/evanna-lynch\">Evanna Lynch<\/a>, singer Leona Lewis, Chris Packham, actors Alicia Silverstone, Alan Cumming and Daisy Ridley, singer-songwriter Alesha Dixon, model Lily Cole, singers Finneas O\u2019Connell and James McVey, and reality TV star Lucy Watson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They argue that animal farming should be on the Cop26 agenda because it is the second-biggest source of damaging emissions, after burning fossil fuels for electricity and\u00a0heat.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The UN\u2019s Food and Agriculture Organisation\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.fao.org\/news\/story\/en\/item\/197623\/icode\/\">says<\/a>\u00a0global livestock accounts for 14.5 per cent of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/topic\/carbon-dioxide\">carbon dioxide<\/a>\u00a0emissions, but\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/352100490_Emissions_from_Animal_Agriculture-165_Is_the_New_Minimum_Figure\">other research<\/a>\u00a0has concluded it is nearer to 16.5 per cent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They want Mr Sharma to put three proposals to the summit: shifting subsidies away from animal agriculture to more sustainable agriculture; offering incentives to develop alternatives to animal agriculture and changing government procurement priorities in the public sector.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At least 88 billion land animals are bred and slaughtered for food globally each year,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ourworldindata.org\/agricultural-land-by-global-diets\">taking up nearly 80 per cent<\/a>\u00a0of global agricultural land, yet producing less than a fifth of the world\u2019s calories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Please click below for the complete article:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/climate-change\/news\/moby-joaquin-billie-eilish-climate-animal-farming-co2-b1922455.html?amp=#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&amp;aoh=16321636264041&amp;csi=0&amp;referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com\" style=\"background-color:#148233\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Curb Animal Farming<\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanna Lumley and Alesha Dixon also among 18 stars warning world will fail to limit disastrous temperature rises without radical changes. 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