The hearing on "climate change and food policy: less meat = less global warming" will be held in the House December 3 in Brussels from 10.00 to 12.30 and will be chaired by Edward McMillan-Scott, Vice-President of PE. A keynote address will be given by the Speaker of Parliament, Jerzy Buzek. This hearing will be followed by a press conference.

The organization of the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) published a report in 2006 on the impacts of livestock on the environment "that shows that meat production is less profitable in terms of the use of different production costs and very intensive field emission greenhouse gas emissions and water use, compared with the production of vegetarian food.

On the eve of the Conference of the United Nations on climate change in Copenhagen, this event reflects the view that the climate change problem must be tackled at all levels - in particular individual - but also local, regional, national, European and global.

As a legislative body, Parliament passes laws community to slow climate change. Parliament has discussed in depth the issue of climate change in terms of agriculture, food and development policies and present its views at the meeting of Heads of Government in the Danish capital of 7 to 18 December 2009.

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