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Welcome to a new episode of EU Watchdog Radio.

I'm Hans Van Schare working at Corporate Europe Observatory.

Now, it's really not my intention to spoil your Christmas or New Year's dinners or whatever

dinner or lunch in the near future, but we need to discuss the meat industry and the gigantic

lobby behind meat production and meat consumption.

In this podcast, we'll meet the true face of big meat.

For that, I'll be talking to Professor Paul Behrens, working as climate expert at Oxford

University, who is caught up in an academic battle with the UN's Food and Agricultural Organization

or FAO on the impacts of dietary habits on climate change.

Berence is one of the two academics that earlier this year accused the FAO of misrepresenting their

research in a report that advocated ramping up meat production to improve diets in developing

countries.

However, the FAO report made little mention of cutting meat consumption in richer countries

in order to reduce important emissions of methane, a very powerful gas accelerating climate change.

Lower meat usage in high income nations is mentioned zero times in the FAO report,

while it is scientific consensus now that we need large reductions,

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