By then, we'd been primed to turn up our noses at bacon and eggs, with shots of pigs clamped into cages and thousands of live chicks being sorted on conveyor belts. When you loved this article and you would like to receive details relating to ข้าวกล่อง kindly visit our own internet site. He wants us to 'shift away from eating meat and dairy, and move towards a plant-based diet', he explained at the end of the episode. In New York, there are 1,000 ants for every human, Sir David Attenborough told us on Planet Earth III (BBC1), and they're all addicted to junk food — munching their way through the equivalent of 60,000 hotdogs discarded in the city streets.

Food can be harmful to man if you are allergic to the food, if the food is raw (raw bacon, etc.), or if the food has poison in it. More than three quarters of agricultural land is used for raising livestock, we heard. If the whole world goes veggie, 'this could free up an area the size of the U.S., China, the EU and Australia combined — space that could then be given back to nature.' But it's far too simplistic to suggest that, if humankind stuck to salad and hummus, the rainforests would regenerate.

Such a claim might work as a soundbite for Greta Thunberg but it devalues the painstaking work of the Planet Earth film-makers whose stunning photography over the past few weeks has presented us with a complex, infinitely detailed tapestry of our wild world.