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Indian billionaire Radhika Oswal is set to open the world's first
restaurant that offers a menu aimed at saving the planet from climate change.
Otarian Restaurant, which will open in London next month, will
have carbon footprint published, in the veg menu, alongside the price
and carbon cost of the meat equivalent.
However, many feel it is a gimmick, since Oswal family's business
interests include Burrup Fertlisers, which produces liquid ammonium,
a pollutant which is used as a base ingredient for the production of
fertilisers and explosives.
"Highlighting the climate change impact of our unsustainable
diet, especially meat eating, is laudable," the Independent
quoted Dan Welch, co-editor of Ethical Consumer magazine, as saying.
"But there's a deep irony in the link to Burrup, one of the
world's major manufacturers of the feedstock of chemical
fertilisers," Welch added. However, Radhika insists it is a
positive effort.
She said: "It doesn't mean that if you are doing something good
that all parts of you have got to be good. I believe the world needs
fertilisers to feed the population there is today." |
