Local News on Limiting Our Red Meat Intake
This article talks about how the meat industry pushes back on California specifically. Recently in California, a state legislator introduced a bill called the California Climate-Friendly Food Program, with the goal of promoting plant-based foods in schools and reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to livestock. However, within a couple of months, the bill was renamed and the Climate part was stripped out. This was because of the meat industry’s influence.
Read more here: https://insideclimatenews.org/news/21102019/climate-change-meat-beef-dairy-methane-emissions-california/
National News on Limiting Our Red Meat Intake
This page on Green America educates and asks for donations from readers to help combat the problem of climate change linked with red meat consumption. This article talks about how the UN Food and Agriculture Organization released a report in February which concluded that livestock is responsible for 18 percent of our world global warming emissions. A study by the University of Chicago takes into account meat’s entire lifecycle, meaning that each meat eater is responsible for 1.5 more tons of greenhouse gases than a vegan per year.
Read about it here: https://www.greenamerica.org/eat-less-meat-cool-planet
International News on Limiting Our Red Meat Intake
This page by the World Resources Institute, they talk about a lot of questions regarding beef production. Specifically how it causes GHG emissions and how we can start trying to raise cattle in a more sustainable way. They believe that we don’t have to stop eating red meat entirely, but we will have to curb our diets to some degree to limit the amount of red meat produced throughout the world. In reality, beef production is a major leader in world greenhouse gas emissions and must be addressed on a global scale.
Read about it here: https://www.wri.org/insights/6-pressing-questions-about-beef-and-climate-change-answered#:~:text=1