Meat Lobbyists Attend COP28 to Contradict Climate Research | “If we are going to abate climate catastrophe, we must significantly curtail meat production,” one advocate said.
Meat Lobbyists Attend COP28 to Contradict Climate Research
"Eat less meat people! Now if you'll excuse me, I have conferences all over the world this week, and I have to get to my private jet..."
Whataboutism doesn't super duper help with the problem of meat.
Like just looking at land usage, 80% of agricultural land is used for live stock or growing food for live stock. While only 20% calories come from live stock.
It's just so inefficient use of water and land. Even if every billionaire vanished, we will run out of clean water and good land if population grows and meat consumption doesn't.
Sure, but maybe we could start quantifying the scale of flights to COP28 in terms of hamburgers consumed? I'm tired of the burden to correct for industrial sized pollution being placed on the backs of consumers. Yes. My eating almost no beef over the course of a year helps. I can cut out the 10-12 cheeseburgers I eat. Will my 12 cheeseburgers a year balance a single analyst flight to COP28?
but some of that 80% is also growing food for people: most of what crops are fed to livestock are plants or parts of plants that people can't or won't eat. it's a terribly misleading metric.
