Florentine steak and other meats get a tender loving treatment at Ventinove, a charming Italian restaurant in a village in Gunma Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/03/16/food-drink/swinnerton-food-destination-restaurants-gunma-italian-ventinove/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #fooddrink #finedining #gunma #japanesecuisine #meat
"The American Beef Industry Understood Its Climate Impact Decades Ago"
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/14032025/american-beef-industry-knew-climate-impact-decades-ago/
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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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
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Brits Being ‘Systematically Misled’ About Meat, Dairy, And Eggs, Study Finds https://plantbasednews.org/culture/law/consumers-misled-meat-dairy-eggs/
Their products are really good actually. I only order when I have space in the freezer, lol #canada #Ontario #ottawa #localMeats #tariffs #food #meat #shopLocal https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/canadian-businesses-enjoying-boost-in-sales-thanks-to-tariff-threats-annexation-talk-1.7475708
#News: New study finds reducing ultra-processed food intake by half can lead to significant weight loss and improved mood. Reducing #UPF like #palmoil and #meat reduces risk for chronic #disease. #BoycottPalmOil and be #Vegan https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/02/250221125434.htm?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=Palm+Oil+Detectives&utm_campaign=publer
On this day, TO THE MINUTE I MIGHT ADD, The meats rained down and two brave souls tried to determine the flavour of the sky flesh.
Happy Kentucky Meat Shower Day to all who observe.
The magnificent Great Green #Macaw has had 90% of their rainforest home destroyed for #palmoil #soy #meat #gold #mining. They are now critically #endangered! Fight for them every time you shop, be #vegan and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife
http://palmoildetectives.com/2021/03/21/great-green-macaw-ara-ambiguus/
Ground meat fare need not be boring. Take a cue from the Iranian vendors of Tabriz's street market and stuff them with anything. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2025/02/23/food-drink/kimchi-meatballs-in-hot-pot/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #life #fooddrink #recipe #meat #shoyu
"what he says is the biggest driver of #ClimateChange, animal agriculture.... ("The killing machine")
Planet: Critical: How to Cool the Planet | Sailesh Rao
Episode webpage: https://www.planetcritical.com/p/how-to-cool-the-planet-sailesh-rao
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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: https://doi.org/10.1111/1750-3841.70039 #NOVA #nutrition #diets #milk #meat
How a month of #abstinence can lead to '#meat disgust'
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250130-how-a-month-of-abstinence-can-lead-to-meat-disgust
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.
