Fox News is twisting Al Gore's words again to claim that he “wants people to give up meat” in order to “combat global warming.” Fox & Friends Saturday aired the following graphic:

When asked about industrial agriculture's impact on the environment, Al Gore actually said:

Industrial agriculture is a part of the problem. Organic farming, relying on more productive, safer methods that put carbon back in the soil, produce safer and better food, that's a big part of it. The shift toward a more meat-intensive diet is also part of the problem. The clearing of forest areas in many parts of the world in order to raise more cattle, that's a part of it. The reliance on synthetic nitrogen fertilizer as a Faustian bargain, it's kind of like steroids, it gives a pop but then the soil degrades. So yeah, agriculture is a significant part of this. We have to change it.

It is well documented that increasing global demand for meat has environmental consequences. To characterize Gore's acknowledgment of this fact as a call for everyone to become vegetarian is simply a distortion.

Previously:

Quick Fact: Hannity falsely claimed Gore was wrong to say British judge ruling on An Inconvenient Truth “favored his point of view”

Ingraham uses doctored video to smear Gore

Fox's Baier misrepresented Gore's comments about Myanmar cyclone

Hume mischaracterized, selectively cited Tennessean article to smear Gore