Carbon Footprint of Your Food: The ClimateGate Deniers Continue in Their Insanity

It's so sad to see how the "ClimateGate deniers" continue on in their cult-like devotion and blind adherence to The Party.  This was in the UK's Telegraph on Tuesday this week (emphasis added ... and a snide comment):

Food labels to show 'carbon footprint' under Government plans

Hilary Benn, the Environment Secretary, said in future people will have to eat less “carbon intensive” foods like red meat or excessively packaged products to make sure Britain meets targets to cut greenhouse gases. 

To help consumers do this, new “green” food labels will show how much carbon was produced in the manufacture and transportation of food.

Tesco, PepsiCo and other leading brands are already displaying a “carbon reduction label” on certain products showing the amount of carbon dioxide produced in grams in growing the food, packaging and transportation.

As part of a new food strategy for the next 20 years, the Government calls on other brands to consider measuring the carbon footprint of goods as well as being more honest about where meat was bred and the standards of welfare.

But environmental groups said the Government needed to bring in legislation rather than a voluntary labelling scheme to really transform food and farming.  [That's right -- let's make this mandatory!]

Speaking at the Oxford Farming Conference, Mr Benn said choosing low carbon goods will help people fight climate change. 

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“It needs to be mandatory because no producer is going to put people off buying their food,” she said.  Helen Rimmer, of Friends of the Earth, also said carbon labelling will do little to fight climate change unless more low carbon products become available.

She said the Government should be supporting sustainable methods of farming such as organic, while cutting subsidies to factory farms.

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Great.  Now besides checking the label for refined flour and sugar, transfats, fiber content, artificial ingredients, cruelty-free processes, etc. now we gotta check the freaking carbon footprint!  Morons!

Or, as The Founding Bloggers describe it:

This is not about diet. It’s about raising tax revenue.

As soon as they have constructed all of the tools of measuring “carbon footprints” they can begin allotting limits on people, and taxing them for going over the limit.

Europe today, America tomorrow.

Sure, why not?  Here in the U.S. the ugly discussion about taxing junk food occasionally rears its ugly head.   Why not also throw on a tax for foods with high carbon footprints?  With both a fat or "sin" tax combined with another one for high carbon footprints, the government will be able to tax us coming and going!  Just think of the revenue this could generate!!!!  Brilliant!