SCOTTISH farming bosses have complained to Sir Paul McCartney over his latest call for the world to eat less meat.
NFU Scotland has written to the former Beatle, who appeared at the European Parliament last week to promote his campaign for meat-free Mondays as well as call for less meat consumption. He claims meat production is responsible for climate change.
But the NFUS president, Jim McLaren, said: "The real issue … is surely the system of production and the sustainability of that system, rather than adopting a prejudice against the product itself. It is a worry to us that he (Sir Paul] is using climate change as an excuse to pursue this (anti-meat-eating] agenda."
McLaren said Scottish livestock were generally grazed on land that had little use for other types of food production.
He argued that grazing stock on such land was beneficial to the economy, the rural infrastructure and the environment, and he added: "Scottish farmers … fully recognise that they also share in the global requirement to tackle climate change responsibly."
Source: the scotsman
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