Veganism won’t save us from climate change

SIR – Iain Green (Letters, April 24), Director of Animal Aid, states that animal farming is responsible for a seventh of greenhouse gas emissions globally, but he fails to mention that rice production is responsible for nearly as much.

In fact, grass-fed animal farming produces fewer emissions than rice, palm oil and soya production. These commodities require an enormous amount of fossil-fuel input in their production, processing and distribution.

Mr Green should realise that veganism actually contributes to emissions. It is not going to save us from climate change.

David Watson

Beccles, Suffolk

A worker spreads out dried rice at a farm in Susong County in Anhui Province, China