Teagasc is hosting a meeting of world scientists being asked to sign a ‘Dublin Declaration’ calling for ‘balanced view’ of meatMartin Heydon, a Minister for State at the Department of Agriculture, opened a summit of scientists worried about demonising meat.
How interesting, then, to see a State agency this week hosting an international summit of high-profile scientists to discuss the positive role of meat, the production of which tends to blamed by many environmentalists for contributing towards climate change. The Societal Role of Meat summit is being run in Ashtown in Dublin this week by Teagasc, the State agency for agriculture and food research. It is being attended by a slew of international scientists and experts on nutrition, who are being asked to sign a declaration that reads as a riposte of sorts to the anti-meat brigade.