CHILDREN have met with the minister for climate change to discuss the environmental impact of the meat and dairy industry.
Pupils from Gordonbrock Primary School, Gordonbrock Road, Brockley, travelled to Westminster to ask Lewisham Deptford MP Joan Ruddock to help farmers grow their own animal feed.
As part of an after school project led by Greenwich and Lewisham Friends of the Earth, the children have been learning how meat and dairy farming accounts for 18 per cent of global greenhouse gases.
This is because tropical forests are being chopped down in developing countries to grow food for the chickens, pigs and cows in British factory farms.
At the meeting on July 17, Ms Ruddock pledged her support for the children’s campaign.
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