Eat Vegetables, Fight Climate Change: Expert

The old saying goes, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”

 LONDON, England — The old saying goes, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.”

Now the world’s top scientist on global climate change says, “Eat veggies everyday to keep global warming away.”

“Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It put enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better,” said Nicholas Stern, the author of a 2006 review of climate change.

The former World Bank chief economist told The Times that methane emissions from the growth of livestock is hazardous to the planet’s health.

His comments come ahead of the climate change conference in Copenhagen this December.

A London School of Economics professor went so far as to equate eating red meat to drinking and driving.

“People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food,” Lord Stern said.

For a greenhouse gas, methane is more damaging than carbon dioxide by 23 times, scientists say.

Livestock itself dumps a fifth of the world’s methane into the atmosphere, according to scientific estimations.