Posted on 04/28/2021 10:38:08 AM PDT by Red Badger
Food website Epicurious will no longer publish beef recipes, citing the impact of raising and consuming cattle on climate change.
Cutting out beef from one's diet is "a worthwhile first step" in cooking more sustainably, wrote Maggie Hoffman, senior editor at Epicurious and David Tamarkin, former digital director of Epicurious in a blog post Monday.
Livestock accounts for nearly 15% of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions — 41% of those emissions comes from beef, according to the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.
Fossil fuels produce the pesticides and fertilizers used to grow the corn and soybeans consumed by cattle. When cows feed, they release methane into the atmosphere, a major contributor to global warming. Also problematic is their manure, which releases nitrous oxide and methane in the atmosphere, Sujatha Bergen of the Natural Resources Defense Council told Epicurious.
"It might not feel like much, but cutting out just a single ingredient — beef — can have an outsize impact on making a person's cooking more environmentally friendly," the editors said.
Under its new policy, Epicurious will not mention beef in any new recipes, articles, newsletters or Instagram posts, according to the company; existing beef recipes will remain on its website.
Epicurious called the move "pro-planet" and said the "shift is solely about sustainability, about not giving airtime to one of the world's worst climate offenders." The company also acknowledged that nearly every recipe ingredient comes with environmental costs, but said none are as significant as those linked to beef.
Those who say it can’t happen...guess what, it is.
Cool more steak for me.....virture signaling hypocrites....
These people are mentally ill.........................
Epicurius will be out of business soon.
The Epicurious people would be model citizens under Nazi Germany.
(Think of the famous photos from empty 1970's supermarkets from the eastern bloc)
What about pork and chicken recipes? And fish?
Never heard of “Epicurious” before. Sounds like a mental condition. Or maybe a skin disease.
1) Food website Epicurious will no longer publish recipes from Republicans
2) Food website Epicurious will no longer publish anything, they cancelled themselves.
Epicurus would not have approved 😒
There will still be men downtown wearing raincoats who suddenly open them and offer to sell you illicit beef recipes in their pockets.
And run before you can find a cop.
So funny how these obscure websites want attention. I doubt it’s in the top 10,000 websites used in the United States.
How to lose web visitors with this one weird trick.
WHAT THE ACTUAL F#$K?
I hope cows fart in their general direction.
Except that steak will cost 500 dollars in 5 years. They won’t ban it but will make it super expensive.
True, but they also control all of the world's "levers of power", and will use every tool at their disposal to force us to comply to their delusions ... we have entered a very dark era.
“Orange Man Bad!” from the media was better than this.
I suppose I should be even more thankful of Trump, since hatred of him drowned out the regular insanity, for a while.
It’s like the Left is trying to catch up on 4 years of stupidity in 3 months.
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