People are pathetically adverse to changing their diet to save the planet.
“Sorry Timmy, mom and I bought an electric vehicle, but we didn’t feel up to eating vegetables. Now finish eating your mystery sludge, put on your hazmat suit and go out and play with whoever is still alive.”
It’s not a surprise that meat and dairy trade associations would lobby for things like access to federally owned public lands for cattle-grazing or industry-friendly manure management regulations. That’s more or less their raison d’être, and it’s what they’ve done for decades. But as the authors determined, “more recently they have been involved in blocking climate policy that would limit production.”
Six of the big US groups — the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the National Pork Producers Council, the North American Meat Institute, the National Chicken Council, the International Dairy Foods Association, and the American Farm Bureau Federation — have together spent about $200 million in lobbying since 2000. And they’ve been lobbying annually against climate policies like cap-and-trade, the Clean Air Act, and regulations that would require farms to report emissions.
This has aged well, considering the recent COP.
Dog/cat food industry uses 16% of the US meat industry output. Be careful throwing stones in glass houses before you criticize someone for having a steak when you have multiple fur babies.
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People are pathetically adverse to changing their diet to save the planet.
“Sorry Timmy, mom and I bought an electric vehicle, but we didn’t feel up to eating vegetables. Now finish eating your mystery sludge, put on your hazmat suit and go out and play with whoever is still alive.”
It’s not a surprise that meat and dairy trade associations would lobby for things like access to federally owned public lands for cattle-grazing or industry-friendly manure management regulations. That’s more or less their raison d’être, and it’s what they’ve done for decades. But as the authors determined, “more recently they have been involved in blocking climate policy that would limit production.”
Six of the big US groups — the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association, the National Pork Producers Council, the North American Meat Institute, the National Chicken Council, the International Dairy Foods Association, and the American Farm Bureau Federation — have together spent about $200 million in lobbying since 2000. And they’ve been lobbying annually against climate policies like cap-and-trade, the Clean Air Act, and regulations that would require farms to report emissions.
This has aged well, considering the recent COP.
Dog/cat food industry uses 16% of the US meat industry output. Be careful throwing stones in glass houses before you criticize someone for having a steak when you have multiple fur babies.