Epicurious to stop posting beef recipes, citing climate change

https://www.cbsnews.com ^ | 28 APRIL 2021 | BY MEGAN CERULLO

[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.

[dfwgator]

They’ll eventually will make it all meat. They are just starting with the low-hanging fruit.

[Pollard]

Search for beef, top three. (The American Red Meat)

Search for goat, top three. (The Global Red Meat)

Hispanics and Muslims shall not be denied.

I'm surrounded by cattle farms here in Southern MO but our property isn't big enough so I got meat goats. They fart a lot. Instead of 5 million cows, we'll have 20 million goats that put out the same amount of methane as the cows did. But hey, it's leaner so people will be healthier which is necessary for free healthcare.

My plan was to make a little money from goats and maybe put some meat in the freezer. Looks like I'll be putting quite a bit in the freezer because you know the Biden admin(Valjar and Obama) will create EOs that make beef cost $20/lb and up. Expect to start seeing goat meat in your grocery store.

[Brian Griffin]

“When cows feed, they release methane into the atmosphere”

Cows are female.

Beef from cows is normally second-rate, as cows aren’t normally slaughtered until they are old.

Most beef comes from young male bovines.

It should be noted that cattle are used to produce food on land that is not suitable for crops. Think of the “hungry” children ferried around in their moms’ SUVs.

[Red Badger]

Kobe dead.................

[Pollard]

Notice how Goat is not on the list? https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3954566/posts?page=42#42

[logi_cal869]

It’s a stupid, lefty website anyway. Many others are better.

[Grampa Dave]

MBAing and NFLing arises in the former recipe business.

Our adult sons and grandson were raised on how to charcoal and barbecue beef, pork and lamb, and they are very good doing it.

This could be a great job opportunity for them in a few years, doing and teaching how to prepare beef, pork and lamb.

[glorgau]

OK, one more site that is dead to me.

[Red Badger]

Good point.

Which brings up another question:

Before the Europeans came to America, I bet there were more buffalo/bison in North America than there ever has been any amount of cattle. No climate change from that massive herd, so none from cattle..........................................

[Diana in Wisconsin]

PING!

[Red Badger]

That would seriously annoy the cat...........................

[Red Badger]

No he would not.....................

[Shady]

I just cut Epicurious from my recipe searches, Bye Bye.

[doorgunner69]

“What percent of gas emissions comes from dogs?”

And fat liberals?

[Jewbacca]

Vegetarian Hitler would approve.

[Red Badger]

He was a vegan because he was afraid of poison...................

[Pilated]

They begin to deprive us of life sustaining nutrients. We will be given barely enough to sustain us for forced labor. We will be eliminated to a controllable level for their menial tasks. Only the elite will survive on the high horse in the sky. Soylent Green begins

[cgbg]

There is only way to stop the leftists.

Build the soylent green factories and kill two birds with one stone.

;-)

[LibertyWoman]

Never heard of them

[Bob434]

Yep by golly- is we just did away with all livestock then greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would drop from 0.00136% to say 0.001359%

Everyone run and hide- CO2 comprises a whopping 0.00136% of the atmosphere!