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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: webheart

Wine is not a food yet if you drive anywhere in California you see vineyards and wineries everywhere. It is a huge waste of land. We could get rid of expensive wineries and grow beef instead.

That is not how California works. If they rip out the vineyards they will use the land to grow pot, not beef cattle, in order to produce more stoned Democrats,.

Pot is like the Holy Grail to Californian leftists, which is why I drink alcohol if I'm going to use a substance to unwind. I like the visual of liberal heads exploding :)

You will take my wine from my cold dead hands.

61 posted on 04/27/2021 11:37:19 AM PDT by FormerFRLurker
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To: rktman
For any person — or publication — wanting to envision a more sustainable way to cook, cutting out beef is a worthwhile first step.

Why would anybody want to do that?

Sustainable food to a socialist is Soylent Green.

62 posted on 04/27/2021 11:48:49 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: bk1000

Most of these types WANT the extinction of domestic animals. That’s what it’s co-wacko group, animal “rights”, is about.

This is a religion. Their basic premise is that people=profane (includes domestic animals) and nature=devine (wild only). It’s the culture of death.


63 posted on 04/27/2021 11:49:58 AM PDT by Varda
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To: SunkenCiv

Epicurious goes bicurious.


64 posted on 04/27/2021 11:52:21 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: jjotto
California has lots of almond tree groves. Almonds supposedly require huge amounts of water per almond. Greenies are starting to wage war against almond milk because of this.

In the end they'll have to live on dropped fruit and sunshine.

65 posted on 04/27/2021 11:55:42 AM PDT by who_would_fardels_bear (This is not a tagline.)
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To: familyop
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.

True.   They need to perform seppuku on themselves because people pass gas too.   But wait, the socialists will just kill us off because we don't conform to their insane beliefs anyway.

66 posted on 04/27/2021 11:57:53 AM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: BBQToadRibs2

Mmm

good looking salad :)


67 posted on 04/27/2021 12:04:58 PM PDT by redinIllinois (Pro-life, accountant, gun-totin' Grandma - multi issue voter)
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To: rktman

When they start coming for your food, you better sit up and
take notice.


68 posted on 04/27/2021 12:07:43 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (Folks, if you haven't yet, please start an automatic monthly for Jim and his crew.)
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To: rktman

Soylent Green was set in 2021.


69 posted on 04/27/2021 12:14:18 PM PDT by hattend
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To: hattend
Soylent Green was set in 2021.


70 posted on 04/27/2021 12:15:05 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rktman; 100American; 3D-JOY; abner; Abundy; AGreatPer; Albion Wilde; AliVeritas; alisasny; ...

It is time for all good people to humble Condé Nast to the dust.

BOYCOTT!!!

PING!


71 posted on 04/27/2021 12:15:17 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks (GOP-free since 10/9/20)
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To: rktman
This is not enough, the staff at Epicurious must kill themselves to save the planet.
72 posted on 04/27/2021 12:17:14 PM PDT by Vision (Elections are one day. Reject "Chicago" vote harvesting. Election Reform Now. Obama is an evildoer.)
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To: rktman
These people are sick and insane!


73 posted on 04/27/2021 12:18:29 PM PDT by higgmeister ( In the Shadow of The Big Chicken )
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To: rktman

We got rid of 20 million buffalo and replaced them with 20 million head of cattle. The way I look at it, we’re even. How about recognizing our buffalo hunters as the nation’s first woke environmentalists.


74 posted on 04/27/2021 12:20:41 PM PDT by Archie Bunker on steroids (You may not take an interest in politics, but politics takes an interest in you "Pericles" )
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To: familyop
It’s about their fears in regards to dwindling resources in the future.

Weird how the fears are never realized, despite a century of chicken-littleism. If the market is growing, people will find a way to cater to it. Of course, when commies are in control, innovation grinds to a halt and moves to the black market.

75 posted on 04/27/2021 12:21:53 PM 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: cmj328

We are rapidly approaching a soylent green diet with these Marxists in charge.


76 posted on 04/27/2021 12:22:42 PM PDT by TeddyRay ( I am a Chump 4 Trump)
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To: Archie Bunker on steroids

We got rid of 20 million buffalo and replaced them with 20 million head of cattle. The way I look at it, we’re even. How about recognizing our buffalo hunters as the nation’s first woke environmentalists.

The Great White Buffalo - Ted Nugent (Double Live Gonzo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPUMlQRYBD8


77 posted on 04/27/2021 12:23:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: rktman

I guess this is why I decided to make a Philly cheesesteak for lunch today.


78 posted on 04/27/2021 12:37:40 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: webheart

If these environweenies eliminate protein from animals, how much land will be needed to grow the proteins to replace it? Each acre of farm land used to grow any crop takes energy, water, fertilizer to manage it. These environweenies don’t have a clue about what it takes to farm a square foot much less than 100 acres of soy boy beans.

They can go ahead and eat their kibbles and bits from a dog food bag out of a dog dish. We will eat our king crab, Angus beef, Maine lobster, Chinook Salmon, Char Siu, raw Hood Canal Summerstone oysters and Rocky Mountain oysters.


79 posted on 04/27/2021 12:40:42 PM PDT by jonrick46 ( Leftnicks chase illusions of motherships at the end of the pier.)
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To: The Pack Knight

Oh, ok. Got it.


80 posted on 04/27/2021 1:03:44 PM PDT by Flaming Conservative ((Pray without ceasing);)
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