Eat less red meat to save the world’s forests, says green energy chief who has almost given up beef

Top green energy chief Lord Turner told on Wednesday how he had slashed his beef consumption to “almost zero” and his few red meat meals were now normally duck or venison.

The peer, who chairs the Energy Transitions Commission, stressed that the world’s forests can only be saved by cutting back on the demands driving their destruction such as red meat and palm oil production.