“We have to stop destroying the planet as we feed ourselves,” a World Bank official said, as red meat and dairy drive CO2 emissions.
Cows and milk are out, chicken and broccoli are in — if the World Bank has its way, that is.
In a new paper, the international financial lender suggests repurposing the billions rich countries spend to boost CO2-rich products like red meat and dairy for more climate-friendly options like poultry, fruits and vegetables. It’s one of the most cost-effective ways to save the planet from climate change, the bank argues.
The politically touchy recommendation — sure to make certain conservatives and European countries apoplectic — is one of several suggestions the World Bank offers to cut climate-harming pollution from the agricultural and food sectors, which are responsible for nearly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions.
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The paper comes at a diplomatically strategic moment, as countries signed on to the Paris Agreement — the global pact calling to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius — prepare to update their climate plans by late 2025.
I cant wait for some conservative idiot to spin this in the worst possible way. Mixed in with some lies, whataubout-isms and straw-mans for a delicious disinformation-coktail!
Florida has already started the “they’re coming for our meat” with the lab grown meat ban if you haven’t seen.
In Europe soy milk can’t legally be called milk anymore. It’s Soy Drink on the packaging. The farmers won that one. Now they’re coming after vegi burgers allowed to be called burgers.
My arguments to “if it’s not from an animal or isn’t milk” are:
- What do you call the white liquid inside a coconut?
- What do you call the laxative/antacid that comes in a blue bottle?
- Coconut drink
- Drink of magnesia
It’s just that simple!
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Magnesia Julius. Just add nutmeg.
That’s coconut water. Coconut milk is made of processed meat!
It would be funny if you just started calling it coconut malk instead of milk. Literally just changing the word milk by one letter.
Malk is rat milk, iirc
I’ve got nipples, Greg. Can you milk me?
- Gross
- Also gross