I am old, poor, ugly and stupid – but above all else my intentions are always honest – and I’ll take a compliment from anyone. I can handle insults too.

Hope that helps. If necessary I’ll gladly make a screen print without grumbling, because the more facts we can include the better.

At my age and with my health I’m only too well aware of the frailties of life. I’ll clarify. The figures for cows only counted live ones.

I don’t get it. Shouldn’t you be comparing rice to cows, and not to oil? How did oil all of a sudden enter the equation?

And why does the writer seem to assume cows will live forever if we don’t slaughter them?

I’ve visted Nepal quite a few times, and respected their customs and beliefs, but it’s not my job to tell them how to live, so I would expect a person who lives in a country with such a massive cow population to use some intelligence when directing the West what to eat.

Thanks for the comment John and hopefully we can jump on these so called scientists every time they start believing they run the planet. Scientists and politicians must be servants of the people, not the other way round.