Bus campaign should have been embraced

Shropshire Council recently implemented the Corporate Green Climate Change Strategy, so surely this encouragement for people to act against climate change through what they eat is something councillors should now be embracing?

This is a time when farming is changing. Like all of us, farmers need to consider how they can contribute to addressing climate breakdown. As the Green MP Caroline Lucas points out, we have 11 years to prevent the worst effects of climate breakdown.

If the world’s diet doesn’t change, we simply can’t achieve that.

See also:

• Shropshire councillor demands that Veganuary bus adverts should be removed

• Vegans hit back in Shropshire bus advert row

• Vegan bus advert does not offend, it just aims to educate

• Arriva Veganuary row: 80 per cent say adverts should stay on Shropshire buses

The Green Party is calling for an end to subsidies for factory farming, given its impacts on our climate, air and water pollution, soil erosion, antibiotic resistance, poor animal welfare, and harm to our wildlife – all costs which taxpayers enable through subsidies for intensive farming – and we then pay again to try and mitigate the effects.

Rather the country must prioritise more humane and human-scale methods of livestock farming, together with support for farmers to transition to climate and environmentally friendly methods of farming.

Finally, I believe that Councillor Charmley is paid as a deputy council leader to represent the people of Shropshire as a whole – including many vegans.

Steve Hale, South Shropshire Green Party

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