Right, well I picked up a copy of our independent student newspaper, which has basically got a bit of an environmental theme going on this fortnight, particularly because Sheffield just hosted a whole week of climate-themed events, as well as a talk by Al Gore.
Anyhow, I opened up the centre spread which has practical ideas of how you can help reduce your own environmental footprint.
It has good stuff like avoiding North Sea Cod and vulnerable fish stocks, and bizarrely, a special mention that people should refrain from using.. cocaine..
But it has a whole little paragraph saying how people should refrain from using soya products, due to deforestation of the Amazon basin for soya production. But then next to that, it says how you should also avoid meat farmed abroad. Surely though, if they had done research, they might have said for people to cut-down/stop eating animal products, because they eat the soya.. and... and gah.
It just seems a really annoying article, which presents soya products in a really bad light, whilst mentioning little about the general inefficient meat production industry.
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