Bye bye MEAT! How will the post-meat future look?

[bcuster]

 

[friedaweed]

What's your point caller?

 

[bcuster]

Now the carnivores have gone too far:

Maine vegan's 'tofu' license plate ensnared in state's vulgarity crackdown

A handful of motorists in Maine are appealing to keep their custom license plates after the state cracked down on naughty words, including unabbreviated expletives.

www.pbs.org

 

[WouldBe]

Now the carnivores have gone too far:

Maine vegan's 'tofu' license plate ensnared in state's vulgarity crackdown

A handful of motorists in Maine are appealing to keep their custom license plates after the state cracked down on naughty words, including unabbreviated expletives.

www.pbs.org

Nothing to do with carnivores.

 

[editor]

Here's the scale of the problem

Emissions from the food system alone will drive the world past 1.5C of global heating, unless high-methane foods are tackled.

Climate-heating emissions from food production, dominated by meat, dairy and rice, will by themselves break the key international target of 1.5C if left unchecked, a detailed study has shown.

The analysis estimated that if today’s level of food emissions continued, they would result in at least 0.7C of global heating by the end of the century, on top of the 1C rise already seen. This means emissions from food alone, ignoring the huge impact of fossil fuels, would push the world past the 1.5C limit.

The study showed that 75% of this food-related heating was driven by foods that are high sources of methane, ie those coming from ruminant livestock such as cattle, and rice paddy fields.

However, the scientists said the temperature rise could be cut by 55% by cutting meat consumption in rich countries to medically recommended levels, reducing emissions from livestock and their manure, and using renewable energy in the food system.

Eat less meat, FFS.

Meat, dairy and rice production will bust 1.5C climate target, shows study

Emissions from food system alone will drive the world past target, unless high-methane foods are tackled

www.theguardian.com

Future warming from global food consumption - Nature Climate Change

Although the role of the human diet in climate change has been widely acknowledged, current practices fail to capture its realistic effect on warming. In this Analysis, Ivanovich et al. develop a global food consumption emission inventory and estimate the associated future climate impact using a...

www.nature.com

 

[editor]

Meanwhile:

Post-Brexit trade deals with Canada and Mexico will include imports of high-carbon beef and low-welfare pork, the Guardian can reveal.

There are fears there could be a Conservative party revolt, with the former environment secretary George Eustice raising concerns over low welfare standards for pigs in Canada, and an influential group of Tory MPs and peers gearing up to oppose the deals.


The deals also go against the advice of the Climate Change Committee, which wrote to the farming minister, Mark Spencer, after he refused to rule out Mexican beef imports. The committee said the UK’s carbon targets could be “compromised by a decision to allow the importation of meat with a higher carbon footprint than our own”.

In Canada there are more than 7,400 pig farms, and animal charities in the country say pigs there face castration, ear notching, tail docking and teeth trimming. Sows are kept for long periods in stalls that do not give them room to turn around, a practice banned in the UK. Pigs are also often left to live on cold, damp, slatted floors with no room for comfortable bedding or straw, the campaigners say.

UK to import high-carbon beef and low-welfare pork in trade deals

Exclusive: Tory party fears a revolt among MPs over post-Brexit agreements with Canada and Mexico

www.theguardian.com

aaaaand

‘Very serious questions to answer’ amid beef fraud investigation, says Labour

South American and European beef has been sold as British at a UK supermarket, according to the National Food Crime Unit.

www.independent.co.uk

 

[bcuster]

Here's the scale of the problem




Eat less meat, FFS.

Meat, dairy and rice production will bust 1.5C climate target, shows study

Emissions from food system alone will drive the world past target, unless high-methane foods are tackled

www.theguardian.com

Future warming from global food consumption - Nature Climate Change

Although the role of the human diet in climate change has been widely acknowledged, current practices fail to capture its realistic effect on warming. In this Analysis, Ivanovich et al. develop a global food consumption emission inventory and estimate the associated future climate impact using a...

www.nature.com

15% of all emissions related global warming

 

[friedaweed]

Now the carnivores have gone too far:

Maine vegan's 'tofu' license plate ensnared in state's vulgarity crackdown

A handful of motorists in Maine are appealing to keep their custom license plates after the state cracked down on naughty words, including unabbreviated expletives.

www.pbs.org

Another great contribution to the discussion.

 

[bcuster]

Lobstermen fight back:

Maine lobster groups sue California aquarium

Maine lobster industry representatives allege Monterey Bay Aquarium Foundation made false and defamatory statements.

www.bangordailynews.com

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Horrifically grim. The practice of mass industrial torture farming to be extended to octopuses. They will be imprisoned 1,000 per tank before being frozen to death in ice slurry. The arrogant, bloodthirsty savagery and barbarism of humanity knows no bounds:

World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists

Methods used on the Spanish farm would be "cruel" to such intelligent animals say experts, as details emerge.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[CNT36]

Horrifically grim. The practice of mass industrial torture farming to be extended to octopuses. They will be imprisoned 1,000 per tank before being frozen to death in ice slurry. The arrogant, bloodthirsty savagery and barbarism of humanity knows no bounds:

World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists

Methods used on the Spanish farm would be "cruel" to such intelligent animals say experts, as details emerge.

www.bbc.co.uk

Grim.
Someone I know quit their job at an aquarium because of how they felt about the treatment of the octopuses. It wasn't this shit show.

 

[editor]

Horrifically grim. The practice of mass industrial torture farming to be extended to octopuses. They will be imprisoned 1,000 per tank before being frozen to death in ice slurry. The arrogant, bloodthirsty savagery and barbarism of humanity knows no bounds:

World's first octopus farm proposals alarm scientists

Methods used on the Spanish farm would be "cruel" to such intelligent animals say experts, as details emerge.

www.bbc.co.uk

We're such a fucking disgusting species.

 

[editor]

And the vile cruelty continues in the meat industry:

In Spain, by contrast, more than 86 million animals are farmed in cages, with only 13% of livestock unconfined.

With most EU countries having a cage-free rate under 40%, including France (34%) and Greece (22%), freeing factory farmed animals across the region in the next few years seems unlikely.

Across the bloc, nearly all adult female pigs who experts say are highly intelligent and crave outdoor space, spend around half the year inside "gestation crates" in which they can barely move — let alone turn around.

According to the US-based animal rights group, The Humane League, these sows are exploited as breeding machines that continually produce piglets in cold, dark, dirty pens where they often succumb to sickness. They "are among the most abused animals on the planet," state the group.

Back in the US, broiler chickens that are farmed for their meat constitute 95% percent of the animals slaughtered worldwide each year for food, note the California-based Factory Farming Awareness Coalition. The US is the world's number one chicken meat producer.

Broiler chickens are typically raised with 20,000 other birds in a 16,000 square foot (1,486 square meters) shed, which equals around three-quarters of a square-foot for each bird.

Amid this overcrowding, chickens are grown to full size and slaughtered within six weeks. Poultry in the 1950s reached the same weight in around triple the time, according to Compassion in World Farming.

Due to the rapid growth of birds bred for their oversized appetites, their legs cannot support their body weight, forcing them to lie on the floor while suffering pain and lameness. Organs like the heart and lungs are also put under strain, resulting in early death.

Feedlots have an average capacity of around 1,000 cows in the US, while in South Africa the largest lot holds 130,000 cattle, according to experts.

Cattle around the world — including calves who can spend their whole life in these lots — typically have little or no cover and endure cold, muddy conditions in the winter, or suffer heat stress during hot and dry summers in lots with no shade.

In Australia, one of the world's biggest beef exporters, there are some 500 of these feedlots that housed a record near 1.3 million cattle in 2022. According to the RSPCA animal welfare group in Australia, the lots' abrasive and muddy surfaces cause lameness, pain and lesions in the cattle due to an inflammatory disease affecting the hooves.

Farmed animals suffer amid exploding meat demand – DW – 03/16/2023

Despite demands for improved farmed animal welfare, livestock is reared in confinement and isolation as intensive factory production also compounds pollution.

www.dw.com

 

[Pickman's model]

to be fair, any system which ends with animals being brutally slaughtered isn't ever going to be kind or humane however people may like to dress it up

 

[butcher]

At least everyone gets a leg

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Offal truck accident. Mental to think that people still eat this shit in the 21st century.

Vrachtwagen verliest 10 ton slachtafval op A67, snelweg uren afgesloten

De vrachtwagen botste op een voorganger in de file, en verloor daarbij zijn lading. De snelweg ging dicht voor reiniging en herstel.

nos.nl

 

[CNT36]

M

At least everyone gets a leg

Not if there is more than two of you.

 

[pbsmooth]

Offal truck accident. Mental to think that people still eat this shit in the 21st century.

Vrachtwagen verliest 10 ton slachtafval op A67, snelweg uren afgesloten

De vrachtwagen botste op een voorganger in de file, en verloor daarbij zijn lading. De snelweg ging dicht voor reiniging en herstel.

nos.nl

Ah that's for Bear Grylls. No longer vegan and now selling offal pills or something.

Bear Grylls: ‘I’m an offal man. Veganism was not working for me’

The adventurer wants us all eating meat. He tells Julia Llewllyn Smith why

www.thetimes.co.uk

 

[butcher]

Offal truck accident. Mental to think that people still eat this shit in the 21st century.

Vrachtwagen verliest 10 ton slachtafval op A67, snelweg uren afgesloten

De vrachtwagen botste op een voorganger in de file, en verloor daarbij zijn lading. De snelweg ging dicht voor reiniging en herstel.

nos.nl

That's because they don't. That is a bone waste truck off to the recycling plant. Waste is a valuable commodity.

 

[editor]

Can't say this surprises me:

New analysis suggests climate coverage downplays livestock’s impact
Polling reveals a lack of knowledge about the environmental harm done by livestock consumption.

Despite accounting for the same quantity of emissions as transport globally, only 0.5 per cent of recent articles on climate in top-tier publications in the US and the UK, and in English-language media elsewhere, have mentioned meat or livestock as an emissions source. Of nearly 92,000 articles surveyed, fewer than 450 noted meat’s contribution to climate change, according to an analysis shared with Spotlight.

These are the findings of research conducted by Northstar on behalf of Madre Brava, a sustainable food NGO, which last year polled over 7,000 adults across the five major meat markets. The polling established that there is little awareness about industrial meat production, with 90 per cent of respondents saying they knew very little or nothing at all. Almost three quarters of Brits admitted to knowing nothing about the issue, the highest share among the nations surveyed.

Such research reveals a big disconnect between public perception and the environmental impact of livestock farming. Animal agriculture accounts for 14.5 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions and it is the largest single driver of global deforestation. The industry is criticised for using land inefficiently, overusing antibiotics, spreading infectious disease, increasing water scarcity and driving biodiversity loss.

“The science is actually quite clear,” Rob Percival, a food policy author and campaigner with Soil Association, told Spotlight. “Average per capita consumption of meat and dairy needs to decline by at least 35-50 per cent if we are to meet our climate and nature targets, but there is still an important role for livestock in nature-friendly farming systems.”

And here's this thread, in a nutshell:

Nor is this situation new. Just as with climate change before it, major news outlets have been presenting the unsustainability of meat consumption as a debate, rather than a scientific consensus. A study published last year in the journal Sustainability found that articles in major US newspapers between 2018 and 2020 gave equal weight to “both sides” in the discussion, for example by quoting from researchers with ties to the livestock industry.

And some good news:

Meat consumption is already falling in the wake of rising food prices. Northstar polling also found that almost 6 in 10 Germans and half of British and French meat-eaters intend to reduce their meat consumption in the next two years (compared with 34 per cent of Brits who told a 2021 New Statesman poll they aimed to do likewise).

New analysis suggests climate coverage downplays livestock's impact

Polling reveals a lack of knowledge about the environmental harm done by livestock consumption.

www.newstatesman.com

Livestock (meat and dairy) occupies 77% of the world’s farmland to produce 18% of all calories and 37% of all proteins produced globally. Animal agriculture, mainly cattle and soy animal feed, is the largest driver of global deforestation.

Madre Brava — People don’t see industrial meat as a key cause of global warming – poll

Despite industrial meat polluting more than all cars together, a new global opinion poll shows that Americans, Brazilians, British and French citizens and Germans don’t know anything about the climate impact of meat production. But when they do learn more about it, people get concerned!

madrebrava.org

 

[Jeff Robinson]

Another victory for the US animal liberation movement. Two animal rights activists found not guilty for theft after rescuing two sick chickens ('owned' by torture farmers) from a truck:

https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article273295350.html

Second legal win in a row for Direct Action Everywhere now! Eternal power to them.

 

[Jeff Robinson]

More analysis here:

The fight against factory farming is winning criminal trials

Two activists were just acquitted for taking factory-farmed chickens worth $16.

www.vox.com

 

[friedaweed]

Offal truck accident. Mental to think that people still eat this shit in the 21st century.

Vrachtwagen verliest 10 ton slachtafval op A67, snelweg uren afgesloten

De vrachtwagen botste op een voorganger in de file, en verloor daarbij zijn lading. De snelweg ging dicht voor reiniging en herstel.

nos.nl

I've heard of people eating road kill but that would be a stretch. What makes you think that's for human consumption?

 

[WouldBe]

I've heard of people eating road kill but that would be a stretch. What makes you think that's for human consumption?

It certainly wouldn't be in an open lorry if it was it would have to be refrigerated.

 

[editor]

Eat less meat and scoff more lentils!

Lentils conceal their superpowers with a dowdy exterior. Pound for pound, raw lentils have more protein than steak. While not as protein-dense once cooked, they pack even more iron than meat, in addition to other vitamins and minerals.
Fast to cook, easy to store and exalted enough to be buried with the pharaohs of ancient Egypt, these seeds have sustained empires. Roman soldiers lived on the essential portable protein over their long campaigns.

Unlike corn and other grains, lentils can thrive on arid lands with little water where many other crops wither — while building up the soil.

And unlike red meats, particularly those that have been processed, lentils have none of the saturated fats and additives that raise the risks of cancer and heart disease. They also contain iron, zinc, magnesium, potassium and vitamin B, as well as most of the essential amino acids.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/21/lentils-are-just-waiting-their-hummus-moment/

 

[friedaweed]

Eat less meat and scoff more lentils!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/21/lentils-are-just-waiting-their-hummus-moment/

I eat loads of lentils and dried beans. Perfect in a classic French Cassoulet.

 

[UnderOpenSky]

Eat less meat and scoff more lentils!

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2023/03/21/lentils-are-just-waiting-their-hummus-moment/

I'd love to but my partner and colleagues don't thank me.

 

[friedaweed]

It certainly wouldn't be in an open lorry if it was it would have to be refrigerated.

Oh I don't know, it's been pretty chilly of late and as long as the lorry was given the Dettol treatment first.

 

[friedaweed]

I'd love to but my partner and colleagues don't thank me.

Cheaper than an electric blanket.

 

[furluxor]

Offal truck accident. Mental to think that people still eat this shit in the 21st century.

Vrachtwagen verliest 10 ton slachtafval op A67, snelweg uren afgesloten

De vrachtwagen botste op een voorganger in de file, en verloor daarbij zijn lading. De snelweg ging dicht voor reiniging en herstel.

nos.nl

That's just offul.

Showed it to partner:
-Eeew!
-As an omnivore, surely you mean 'yum delicious would it it straight off the tarmac''