I don’t see anything even remotely controversial about this:

“Meat is a wasteful use of water and creates a lot of greenhouse gases. It puts enormous pressure on the world’s resources. A vegetarian diet is better.”

Or this:

He predicted that people’s attitudes would evolve until meat eating became unacceptable. “I think it’s important that people think about what they are doing and that includes what they are eating,” he said. “I am 61 now and attitudes towards drinking and driving have changed radically since I was a student. People change their notion of what is responsible. They will increasingly ask about the carbon content of their food.”

Everything Lord Stern said in the interview is true, as far as I can tell. But once Drudge blows the whistle, conservatives won’t let facts get in the way of their marching orders.

Here are a few early responses from conservative bloggers and pundits.

Ed Morrissey at Hot Air:

I consider creeping elitism from horse’s asses a much more elitist threat than methane from cow’s butts.

Vladimir at Red State:

Hold on. If we eat less beef, pork and poultry, we’ll be eating a lot more beans, broccoli and cabbage, and producing a heck of a lot more methane ourselves. Since each fart is worth 23 times its weight in carbon dioxide, won’t we be accelerating Global Warming?

Andrew Stuttaford at National Review:

Dietary rules and restrictions are a part of many religions, so it’s at least consistent that Lord Stern, one of Britain’s most prominent climate alarmists, is making sure that his particular millennial cult is not left out.

It as almost as if these three folks had absolutely nothing of substance to say, but they went ahead anyway, since Drudge has the story on blast.