Study: 100% of meat and dairy companies have lobbied against environmental and climate policies

100% of the top 10 meat and dairy companies.

That should be in the title—otherwise it implies that every family dairy in the country has its own team of lobbyists.

IDK why corporate lobbing is still legal, wtf outlaw it asap

Huh, well imagine that. The biggest sources of the problem is against doing anything about it.

What I find pretty wild is that our government even helps them do more of it by boosting terrible diet choices, including pushing it onto children.

Wtf is with quality on lemmy world these days. How is a medium article written like an ethics 101 student using ai assistance news worthy. It's formula 1 sentence summary linked to an article source, with one sentence over generalized conclusion... Over and over and over.

Holy misleading headline, Batman!

I'm not saying that there isn't a problem with the industries, but the 10 largest in one country is NOT "100% of all meat and dairy companies" or anywhere near that!

A sample size of the 10 largest in a country where it's literally impossible to get to the top 10 anything company without truly despicable practices is some supercharged selection bias!

Very dishonest click bait. Moderators should clean this stuff up in order to prevent redditification.

100%

10 of the biggest

Always handy when a pop-sci article discredits itself without having to read it.

Oh no! Who could've known this? What's next? Oil companies lobbying against environmental and climate policies?

I know a lot of people are new here but this kind of shit should be moderated better... Link to the study, not someone's blog

I’m pretty sure this headline is impossible

Also, medium is a blog.

fucking meat factories are killing the animals and the goddamn planet

Save the world! Go Vegan! [Or at least plant-based]

Ah water is indeed wet.

You know that this can't possibly be true, because most meat and dairy companies do not have a lobbying arm, right? Right in the first sentence it says it's the top 10 largest, but let's go ahead and put some bullshit in the headline anyway right?

I mean, we all know the memes, but there has to be like a nuanced take take on why this is the case, right? Is it literally the case that they just don't give a goddamn about climate change and they're just going to get theirs while they can and to hell with everything else? Because it's going to be awful hard to keep your cows fed when climate change starts fucking up their feed crops, and we're pretty much there right now, as far as I understand it.

The vegan propaganda campaign is back at it again.

I don't know if y'all know this but short term profits are much more important to rich old people that won't see the earth they created for their grand kids.

Not at all biased when the article starts out with a likely out of context picture of a cow looking terrified and as if it's crying. Fuck corporations, all of them, fuck them all, but there are a few of us with severe enough allergies that without meat we would starve. Ableist bullshit to believe everyone can stop eating meat.

can't help but think the cow in that image knows what's up.

those are some upstanding humans you got there, U.S. meat and dairy.

stop hiding the humans behind 'companies'. name freakin names of the bad peoples.

:pikachu:

You know who else lobbies against these policies? Almost every other name brand company.

I think we need to slow down on placing all the blame on cows and other ruminants. It’s not the farming that’s causing problems, it’s the fact that we’ve gotten away from regenerative agriculture, and how to actually work with the land.

My Wife is a part of a farm that just got the USDA Climate Smart grant. The grant basically outlines how to sequester more carbon into the soil by using cattle and other ruminants and doing pasture grazing rotations, using trees, and some other things. The thing that blows most people away when she talks about it is that cows are and never were the problem – it’s Big Ag.

The way of farming cattle nowadays is very inefficient and a problem for the environment. This is because of the ways cattle are finished before processing. Instead of being grass fed - grass finished, farmers send their cattle’s out to feed lots in the Midwest. They are jam packed in areas where they can’t adequately space out, which leads to an excess of their excrements in one spot. THIS is the problem. But it’s just the tip of the iceberg.

This problem only stems from the larger issue that Big Ag doesn’t care how land is managed or farmed as long as it’s baseline is about production. But it’s not like non-GMO and organic is easy to do, both growing and the paperwork, so it’s just bad all around….

Blimey, is it Vegan Circle Jerk Day again already?

I still haven't had chance to take my decorations down from the last one.