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‘No sooner had I written last week that there is a spectre haunting Europe, and identified it as the spectre of vegetarianism, than we all read of a Gallup survey revealing that more than 2,000 people a week are giving up meat in this country alone. Most of them say they are fearful of mad cow disease and other illnesses.
Anti-smokers remain the greatest menace. Much excitement was caused last week by the news that adoption agencies have been instructed to refuse babies to foster parents who smoke.
Vegetarians give more cause for anxiety because many scientists now believe that gaseous emissions given off by these people are responsible in large part for the perceivable fact of global warming, or damage to the ozone layer.’
Daily Telegraph, 29 March 1993, ‘Way of The World’ by Auberon Waugh