Britons told reduce intake of baked beans due to its impact of “smelly emissions”

By Mirror

Briton: Brits were on Wednesday given a bizarre warning to cut down on baked beans because of the impact of “smelly emissions” on global warming.

Concerns have previously been voiced about the effect of methane coming from cow flatulence.

But Climate Change Minister Lady Verma yesterday urged the public to “moderate” their behaviour after Labour peer Viscount Simon raised questions in the House of Lords about the impact of human eating habits.

Viscount Simon, 73, said, “A programme on the BBC stated this country has the largest production of baked beans and the largest consumption of baked beans in the world.

“Could you say whether this affects the calculation of global warming by the Government as a result of the smelly emission?”

Lady Verma replied, “You raise a very important point, we do need to moderate our behaviour.”

A study last December suggested nearly 49,300 million of baked beans were sold in the UK in 2012.

Carbon dioxide from fossil fuels is the primary gas causing global warming but methane has an effect more than 20 times greater.

Animals such as cows produce a sixth of all the planet’s methane, but the worldwide human methane output has been calculated as accounting for just 1/5,000th of our ­greenhouse gas emssions.