“A shift toward plant-based foods is a multiple win for climate, nature, and animal welfare. Shifts between or within animal products often lead to trade-offs” Well done report & I can think of a few major orgs who aren’t ready to offer full plant-based and struggle assessing ‘what is better meat?’

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New report: Food providers in N. America & Europe are looking at shifting what they serve in a more plant-based direction for climate & other reasons. They are also wondering, for the meat they do continue to serve, how could it be sourced in ways that support these goals? We dug in to this q. 🧪 1/

Is There Such a Thing as “Better” Meat? It’s Complicated

New research finds meat production methods which are better for animals aren't always better for the planet, and vice-versa. How can we balance the trade-offs?

China is the biggest producer & consumer of meat now & this one deal by President Lula may single-handedly shift the Amazon from a net sink to a net emitter of planet-warming emissions. They’ll spin this with an economic story & meat vouchers for the poor. www.scmp.com/news/world/a...

Brazil’s Lula reunites with meat billionaire brothers as China ties bloom

The Brazilian president, along with Wesley and Joesley Batista, visited a JBS factory that is set to make the first shipment of meat to China as part of a new deal.

82% of the EU’s farm subsidies go to animal-based foods that make up 84% of EU’s food-related GHGs yet supply just 35% of their calories. This makes animal-rich foods artificially cheap & externalizes impacts to taxpayers. New study: www.nature.com/articles/s43...drive.google.com/file/d/11gq4...

Appreciate sharing that. Being able to change one’s mind, learn new things, and adapt has to be one of the highest skills/qualities to work at. Well done.

“Most of our agricultural land is used for one thing – raising animals.” From this excellent article: drawdown.org/news/insight...

How Food and Farming Will Determine the Fate of Planet Earth

Agriculture has disrupted the planet more than anything we have ever done, including burning fossil fuels. A sustainable future depends on recognizing this fact – and radically changing how we farm

“Agriculture has consumed more land – and driven more species and ecosystems to extinction – than any activity in human history. Nothing else – not timber, not mining, not urban sprawl, not even climate change – comes close.”

210 highly experienced climate scientists & food/agriculture experts based in 48 countries - many led IPCC reports - say that by 2036, GHGs from livestock must drop by 61%, and # of livestock peak & fall within a few years, to align with the Paris Agreement: animal.law.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...

“recipients of industry funding do not believe it influences the design, conduct, or interpretation of their studies, despite substantial evidence that it does. The role of beef methane emissions is an existential threat to beef sales”Marion Nestle Ft. in this: www.foodpolitics.com/2024/03/how-...

Climate change is the most polarized issue in the US According to a new @Pew poll, 12% of Republicans say that addressing climate change should be a top priority this year compared to 59% of Democrats www.pewresearch.org/politics/202...

Out today, my analysis of animal agriculture’s disinformation campaigns over the past few years that has influenced public opinion, policy, and continues to delay the major changes we need. ‼️ Download the Report: rb.gy/i3e4j3www.greenqueen.com.hk/meat-dairy-m...