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War on Beef: Corporate censors come for the chefs
Americanthinker.com ^ | 4/27/2021 | Monica Showalter

Posted on 04/27/2021 10:18:54 AM PDT by rktman

For any person — or publication — wanting to envision a more sustainable way to cook, cutting out beef is a worthwhile first step. Almost 15 percent of greenhouse gas emissions globally come from livestock (and everything involved in raising it); 61 percent of those emissions can be traced back to beef. Cows are 20 times less efficient to raise than beans and roughly three times less efficient than poultry and pork. 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.

Today Epicurious announces that we've done just that: We've cut out beef. Beef won't appear in new Epicurious recipes, articles, or newsletters. It will not show up on our homepage. It will be absent from our Instagram feed.

We know that some people might assume that this decision signals some sort of vendetta against cows — or the people who eat them. But this decision was not made because we hate hamburgers (we don't!). Instead, our shift is solely about sustainability, about not giving airtime to one of the world's worst climate offenders. We think of this decision as not anti-beef but rather pro-planet. [No, it's about cows —ed.]

Of course, when it comes to the planet, eschewing beef is not a silver bullet. All ruminant animals (like sheep and goats) have significant environmental costs, and there are problems with chicken, seafood, soy, and almost every other ingredient. In a food system so broken, almost no choice is perfect.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Philosophy; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: beef; ecoassclowns; epicurious; food; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; nobeef; vegan; veganism; vegans; waronbeef
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To: Flaming Conservative

Beef is the new ammo. Ammo was the new toilet paper.


41 posted on 04/27/2021 11:04:47 AM PDT by The Pack Knight
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To: Boogieman

Good video. I’ll be conducting a few beef experiments with either sparkling water or pineapple juice.


42 posted on 04/27/2021 11:05:29 AM PDT by lee martell
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To: monkeyshine

insects are yummy to follow


43 posted on 04/27/2021 11:05:45 AM PDT by joshua c (Dump the LEFT. Cable tv, Big tech, national name brands)
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To: rktman

All ruminant animals (like sheep and goats) have significant environmental costs


What are they going to do about all the wild deer, elk, antelopes, wildebeests, gnus, zebras ...?


44 posted on 04/27/2021 11:08:09 AM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: redgolum

But Ted Turner also owns a lot of land and he raises Bison.


45 posted on 04/27/2021 11:08:17 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: BBQToadRibs2

I would call that a “Value Add” salad. The cow took green plants and made them into something better.


46 posted on 04/27/2021 11:09:15 AM PDT by Sirius Lee (They intend to murder us. Prep if you want to live and live like you are prepping for eternal life)
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To: Reno89519

“Your great grandmother came to dinner last night. Best beef steak I’ve had in a long time”.

One of my insults for Indian call center scammers.


47 posted on 04/27/2021 11:09:43 AM PDT by Rebelbase
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To: joshua c; MinuteGal; M Kehoe

I’ll open a “Beefeasy” and make a fortune!!!


48 posted on 04/27/2021 11:14:39 AM PDT by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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To: rktman
Headed to Cattlemens Restaurant at the Fort Worth Stockyards on Friday, can't wait. Porterhouse or T-Bone, such a dilemma.
49 posted on 04/27/2021 11:15:11 AM PDT by Jolla
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To: rktman

Cows will become extinct. I thought greenies were against animal extinction.


50 posted on 04/27/2021 11:16:09 AM PDT by bk1000 (Banned from Breitbart)
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To: rktman

Not a comment about beef, but about all those out to save the world.

A few years back, I read that a village in Bolivia had been heralded as a model of sustainability. Accompanying the article was a photo of one the villagers, a young boy, wearing dirty rags (and not too clean-looking himself), standing in front of a thatch-roofed mud hut.


51 posted on 04/27/2021 11:16:14 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: ClearCase_guy
Lumber
52 posted on 04/27/2021 11:18:10 AM PDT by skimbell
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To: Oshkalaboomboom

He sold a lot and doesn’t have the herd he used to.


53 posted on 04/27/2021 11:20:32 AM PDT by redgolum (If this culture today is civilization, I will be the barbarian)
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To: webheart

A lot of California vineyards are irrigated. Not sure how much water they use, but no doubt it’s a huge amount.


54 posted on 04/27/2021 11:24:56 AM PDT by jjotto (Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: rktman
The energy it takes to cook food is substantial. I wonder how many places have had electrical grid breakdowns on Thanksgiving when all those 350 degree ovens fire up with turkeys and hams? Has any of those CO2 environweenies watched what it takes to fire up a wok to stir fry that ginger sweet tofu with pak choi? Quick fry--right? I can't even get my gas range to get up to the proper temp to really do stir fry. Instead, I have a propane fired burner to do the job.

I am throwing out this anecdotal stuff to boil down the real intentions of these environweenies. For them, it is not about pacifying the Mother Earth Goddess. It is the antihuman effort to eliminate humans in their Utopian illusion of population control for a perfect world. For all of us, the bad part of this is how do we scrape these pieces of garbage off the bottom of our shoes?

The tool:


55 posted on 04/27/2021 11:25:12 AM PDT by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: rktman

I suspect most chefs will still remember how to cook with beef without Epicurious’s help.


56 posted on 04/27/2021 11:26:27 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: monkeyshine

And no more than 3 eggs a week.

Phooey on that. I ate six eggs yesterday (3 scrambled for breakfast, 3 deviled later on). They're a cheap source of protein and my cholesterol is fine.

57 posted on 04/27/2021 11:29:29 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: redgolum

Who makes that requirement?


58 posted on 04/27/2021 11:30:16 AM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: lee martell

As already mentioned, sous vide, though I usually cook a steak at 124f for 2 hours, a bit longer for tri-tips or other tougher cuts. Cast iron is just as good as a grill, sometimes better. While it’s hard to believe until you figure it out, cast iron is just as easy to clean as a non stick pan.


59 posted on 04/27/2021 11:30:39 AM PDT by ETCM
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To: rktman

I’m telling you, it’s not about the weather. It’s about their fears in regards to dwindling resources in the future. They feel as though they must take more control over us, or they’ll die.


60 posted on 04/27/2021 11:36:38 AM PDT by familyop (Only here for the tales from the rubber room.)
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