Al Gore has become an eco-hero to many around the globe and unquestionably has done an incredible amount to raise awareness about global climate change including his Oscar-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, his organization Alliance for Climate Protection and the We Campaign, and his most recent book, Our Choice. But unfortunately for Gore, there continues to be a few niggling concerns with his pro-environment agenda.
Aside from his enormous carbon footprint (primarily for traveling and owning a couple of super-size homes), his exclusion of the significance of meat to the climate change debate has caused skeptics to denounce Gore’s agenda as skewed. However, the world’s most famous meat-eating environmentalist has now conceded that meat, is indeed, a significant contribution to climate change.
In a recent ABC interview, Gore admitted that reducing meat in our diets is “the responsible thing to do” when it comes reducing greenhouse gases. Gore also agreed that meat eaters have contributed greatly to increased global carbon emissions.
“I’m not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat,” he explained. “It’s absolutely correct that the growing meat intensity of diets around the world is one of the issues connected to this global crisis – not only because of the CO2 involved, but also because of the water consumed in the process.”
Gore’s addiction to meat continues to make him a regular target. In fact, the Nobel Peace Prize winner was recently called a ‘steakaholic’ by PETA’s Ingrid Newkirk during a Glenn Beck interview on FOX News. Newkirk explained that she had been trying to get Gore to address the contribution of a meat-based diet on the planet ever since Gore set himself up as the world’s leading environmentalist.
“You cannot be a meat-eating environmentalist,” explained Newkirk.
“If you really want to save the planet, how about putting down that cheeseburger,” taunted Beck to Gore.
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