We are being inundated with messages on climate change. The perceptions survey asked a question about our food. “Is it better to eat locally produced food including meat and dairy or to have a vegetarian diet where some of the food is imported from around the world.” The correct answer is the vegetarian diet even if some or all the food is imported. Why is this the case? Producing red meat and dairy products from cows is an incredibly inefficient use of resources. Our farmers are very good at doing this as efficiently as possible. Indeed the agricultural support policies of the European Union subsidised beef production very heavily indeed.…