The United Nations is set to call on western countries to reduce their meat consumption
The United Nations climate change conference is currently underway in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. The United Nations Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) will present a roadmap for nations that eat “too much” meat to limit their meat consumption. The theory behind this initiative is that the reduction of meat consumption would lead to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
From Fox News:
The UN’s Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) will publish its so-called global food systems’ road map during the upcoming COP28 climate summit in Dubai which will kick off on Thursday and extend nearly two weeks until mid-December. FAO’s first-of-its-kind document will recommend nations that “over-consume meat” to limit their consumption as part of a broader effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, Bloomberg reported.
“The failure of leading meat and dairy companies to reduce emissions underlines the urgent need for more policy focus on the food and agriculture sector,” Jeremy Coller, the chair and founder of the FAIRR Initiative, an investor network that works with financial institutions to promote climate-friendly agriculture worldwide, said in a recent statement.
“Food system emissions deserve a place at the top of the table, alongside energy and transport, as they represent an estimated third of greenhouse gas emissions and 40% of methane,” he continued. “Investors hope the first-ever publication of a food and agriculture road map at COP28 this month will catalyze the transition to 1.5 degrees and a more sustainable food system.”
In addition to issuing guidelines for reducing meat consumption in the West, the FAO is expected to highlight how farmers should adapt to “erratic weather” and tackle their emissions produced from food waste and use of fertilizer, according to Bloomberg. The recommendations, which the U.S. COP28 delegation may sign onto, will not be binding.
Overall, the road map will seek to guide policy on lowering the climate impact of the global agriculture industry, which has rarely received such attention at past UN climate conferences. Past COP summits have been far more keen to address emissions generated from the global power, transportation and manufacturing sectors.
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The UN can fuck off and eat a bowl of dicks.
They might like that.
Just tell them they’re bugs.
Which is why I would just tell them to F.O.A.D.
The whole time smoking a briket or turning a strip steak to a nice medium rare consistency.
You think more of em than I do!
Obligatory.
Well, I was going to suggest a two pronged response to the UN, but Forest nailed the first part for me.
As to the second part, I believe I have a way we can work with these wanna be tyrants. I do believe that all meat producing countries, specifically the US should decrease their emissions, and I believe the quickest way to do this is to stop producing meat for the rest of the world… let those incapable of producing much of anything, primarily due to their inability to behave as civilized human beings, eat bugs, or whatever else they can find.. and when their numbers drop dramatically due to starvation, this will have an overall net positive effect on CO2 emissions…
I can partially agree to cutting off the meat supply to others, but what makes me against it is what that would do to the Stockmen who raise the livestock, prices would tank and screw them over much like when Jimmeh Kahtuh put his grain embargo to Russia in effect in protest of their A-stan invasion and the falling grain prices following that HURT a lot of farmers.
What a gas reading the article. I gas these FAO peeps are a bunch of A-Holes.
Blow me, UN.
FUCK THE United Nothing and its minions, they can go sit & spin on a hot steam pipe while they go fuck themselves as well
I guess it’s time to retire and become a gentleman farmer with a big herd of four-legged things that become beef at the end of their lifecycle.
The menu for The Loyal Subjects of The King Of FIRSTS this weekend upcoming will be protein rich of beasts. Grilled Chest of Yard Fowl for those RAAAAYYYCCCIIISSS that only want whyte meats. Boneless, skinless thighs of Yard Bird in the Dumplins’ for the ones that prefer full flavored darkies. A nod to The Stoned Hacker will include a vast array of conspiracy wings…right and left. Fried fowl legs with the Southern Style Breading that the kids enjoy. Porky will make the supreme sacrifice of his sides, loins, ribs, butts, and pieces & parts. Bro Beef has been grounded, rounded, rumped, roasted, and steaked. All will be prepared to culinary perfection by The Bunny of The Guns, under the expert supervision of the SVU (Southern Vittles Unit) Team. All of the meat is plant based. The critters turn plants into food.
While we pig out, the UN can bug out. Dave…don’t hog the gravy and catheads.
United Nations?
Never heard of her.
We need to eat more Vegans.
If only so many weren’t pumped full of artificial hormones, AIDS and Xanax 🙁
Anything the UN knows about anything, they shouldn’t. Except for all the queers and trans-loving UN members who eat meat, of a different kind, every day.
Also, I would like to have my burger with everything on it that makes Greta Thunberg say, “How dare you!”
👏👏👏 bring more condiments. And bacon.
In Dubai?
Would it help if I sent them some of our feral hogs for the buffet?
The UN can go suck a fart. That’ll reduce carbon emissions. Refresh my memory, what was the last good thing accomplished by the UN?
Let’s see, UNICEF? Nope, riddled with corruption to the point of where it’s a joke, The UN Food program? ditto …
I’m not giving up my fossil fuel vehicles, gas stoves, A/C, my guns, personal freedoms, or anything else these so called elites want me too. And I’m going to cook a nice steak with a propane grill just to say FU.
I prefer to grill with charcoal, that way I feel like I’m putting more CO2 into the atmosphere to foster plant life AND piss the eco-kooks off more!