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U.S. beef producers say UN's proposal for eating less meat demonizes industry, ineffective
The UN roadmap to eating less meat isn’t legally binding, but it is expected to have influence over policymakers who are setting more and more rules to purportedly fight climate change. Many food producers aren't so sure those rules will work.
The United Nations is expected to ramp up its calls for the world to greatly reduce meat consumption in order to combat climate change.
During the COP28 climate summit, which starts Thursday in Dubai, the UN’s Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) will publish a global plan calling on nations with high rates of meat consumption to change their diets in order to lower greenhouse gas emissions, according to Bloomberg News.
The document isn’t legally binding, but it is expected to have influence over policymakers who are setting more and more rules to fight climate change.
“It’s unclear which will come first: the UN taking away your hamburger or Joe Biden confiscating your gas stove so you can’t cook it,” said Daniel Turner, founder and executive director for Power The Future.
The roadmap, Bloomberg reports, will ask wealthy nations with high rates of per-capita meat consumption to curtail their carnivorous habits, and developing countries will be advised to improve their livestock raising and farming practices.
Livestock produces methane through their burps, contrary to conventional understanding of from which end of the animal the gas is produced.
With about three-quarters of a pound of meat consumed per person per day, the United States has the second highest rates in the world, following Hong Kong.Â
Globally, according to the FAO, livestock production accounts for 14.5% of all man-made greenhouse gas emissions.
In the United States, the entire agriculture sector accounts for 8.6% of emissions, and livestock production accounts for 36% of the sector’s total emissions, or 3.1% of all U.S. greenhouse gas emissions, which have been declining since 2005.
The livestock industry, especially the beef sector, has increasingly become a target for fighting global warming over the past few years. At the extreme end of the conversation, people are encouraged to give up meat in favor of insects, but the European Union has implemented livestock regulations that may force Ireland’s producers to cull their herds. The regulations have also led to widespread protests in the Netherlands.
Sustainability is a goal for much of the U.S. agriculture industry. The National Cattlemen’s Beef Association (NCBA), for example, aims to be carbon neutral by 2040.
https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/energy/us-beef-producers-say-un-proposal-eating-less-meat-demonize-industry
>>The UN roadmap to eating less meat isn’t legally binding.
It has no impact on the planet, leave the farmers be.
Their all failing.
WATCH: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Skydives with 106-Year-Old World War II Veteran
It was the governor’s first time skydiving.
“We did some hard turns,” Abbott told reporters once the daredevil duo made it back to land. “It’s an upside-down ride a couple of times, but it’s a lot of fun.”
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/11/watch-texas-gov-greg-abbott-skydives-106-year/
Sort of like Nato and the UN.