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"The American Beef Industry Understood Its Climate Impact Decades Ago"

insideclimatenews.org/news/140

People need to know about the anti-science and pseudoscience promoted by the meat industry, especially the cow meat industry, to hide the non-slaughter horrors of their bloody industry.

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Jacquet, a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami, noted that the 2006 UN report represented an inflection point, not only making the public aware of livestock’s climate impact, but putting the industry on notice that it could potentially be targeted for regulation. The report said that livestock’s climate emissions—which come from converting forests to pasture, growing feed, methane-emitting cow burps and manure storage—were about 18 percent of the global total, more even than the transportation sector.
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In 1989—the year after NASA’s James Hansen famously told Congress that climate change posed a global threat—the Environmental Protection Agency held a workshop focusing on methane emissions from livestock and, soon after, published a report, “Reducing Methane Emissions from Livestock.” The report said that livestock were a major source of methane and estimated that a 50 percent decrease in global emissions from livestock would yield huge benefits for stabilizing this especially potent greenhouse gas. Tucked into an appendix was the following suggestion: “Reducing methane emissions from ruminants should be pursued as part of an overall investigation into alternatives for reducing future global warming and its impacts.”
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Jacquet and her co-authors note that representatives from the meat and dairy industry attended the 1989 EPA workshop, including a member of the National Cattlemen’s Association. Several months and a handful of planning meetings later, the association, which is the country’s biggest beef lobby and now known as the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, or NCBA, developed a “Strategic Plan on the Environment” to counter anticipated public relations problems or regulations related to climate change. The plan included suggestions to reach out to “key influencers” with research and positive messaging about the industry’s environmental benefits.
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In a separate study, published this week, Jacquet and another University of Miami researcher, Loredana Loy, trace the meat industry’s efforts to derail advocacy groups’ attempts to persuade the public to eat less meat as a climate strategy. These attempts include the Beyond Beef campaign and others, including Diet for a New America and Meatless Monday.
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The study says the livestock industry took a different approach than the oil and gas industry, which tried to convince the public it was only continuing to develop fossil fuels because consumers called for them. The livestock industry, on the other hand, tried to convince consumers that their dietary choices would make no difference.
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Inside Climate News · The American Beef Industry Understood Its Climate Impact Decades Ago - Inside Climate NewsNew research finds the industry’s campaigns to confuse the public about beef’s climate impact go back longer than previously recognized.
#meat#beef#bigMeat

River Action wins court ruling that #chicken megafarms will have to treat their manure as industrial waste - not only will #factoryfarms in the catchment of the River Wye now face controls of their pollution of soil/rivers, but livestock operations producing manure across the #UK will now need to take responsibility for disposing of their waste in a lawful way.

A huge legal precedent in the fight against #livestock polluting soil and rivers!

Humanity is causing \ heading straight into an ecological catastrophe. Sure & generally, there are small efforts being made to prevent that. But that's 'a drop in the ocean' compared to the huge efforts the #meat industry, & fossil fuel industry, go to, to spread propaganda

That's the general problem. Corruption from the people that financially benefit from "eco" destruction

Planet: Critical: Animal Agriculture Exceptionalism

Media file: api.substack.com/feed/podcast/

Day 23 of 30 Days of Local Food: ForeQuarter Butcher Shop

When the price of meat began rising, I shifted most of my meat budget to local independent butchers who focus on locally sourced products. If I'm paying more, I figure I should support those who treat and feed their animals and birds well. Happy animals produced happy meat, as I say. I bounce around – we’re lucky to have choice – but over the past six, eight months, I’ve pretty much found myself returning time and time again to ForeQuarter. The meats are sourced from local/nearby farmers, committed to ethical and sustainable practices. The quality and flavour are so much better than what’s in those plastic-wrapped trays that sit under fluorescent lights. Plus, the folks there are just lovely.

ForeQuarter Butcher Shop: 217 Louisa St, Kitchener

#BuyLocal #Canada #SMB #WaterlooRegion #WellingtonCounty #GuelphFoodies #Waterloofoodies #kitchenerfoodies #CambridgeFoodies #KitchenerWaterlooFoodies #CanadianFood #Meat #Butchers #kweats #ExploreWaterlooRegion #Food #Mastonom

Thanks to our local Costco I got a large ham to roast, almost 11 pounds! The price was a “today only” at $25 off per ham. This cost us $7! #Ham #Roast #Food #Meat

Decided to try the recommended method and glaze supplied. I added OJ, water and then crushed pineapple spread over top. It was just perfect! Am planning to try saving the ham bone to cook Lima beans etc. for hours (per a Reddit comment)
as follows:

2 bags of Lima beans, 2 cut up carrots, 1cut up onion, 3 cut up celery, some springs of thyme and bay leaves and simmer for about 4 hours

Sound like that will be good? Will dry beans really soften up enough? And wondering if low pressure in Instant Pot will be better than a simmer in stockpot?

Not all #ultraprocessed food (UPF) is linked to adverse #health outcomes, e.g. #plantbased meat & #dairy alternatives can be more beneficial than their animal-based counterparts and help lowering the dietary animal to plant #protein ratio. The concept of #UPFs paints with too broad a brush, is insufficiently nuanced to guide food purchasing decisions, and may distract #consumers from focusing on the importance of nutrient content: doi.org/10.1111/1750-3841.7003 #NOVA #nutrition #diets #milk #meat

How a month of #abstinence can lead to '#meat disgust'

bbc.com/future/article/2025013

There are some surprising impacts of cutting out meat, even for a short period, which can carry on well beyond the end of abstinence.

It is widely understood that #livestock have a heavy impact on the #climate and research indicates that switching to a #plantbased #diet is one of the most impactful steps individuals can take to reduce their #carbonemissions from #food.

BBC · How a month of abstinence can lead to 'meat disgust'By Matilda Welin