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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Lol. They think this will increase their circulation. Lol.
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.
**** Epicurious.
Gates owns a lot of farm land.
One of the requirements if you rent or farm it is reducing your beef herd.
Good luck
Social Engineering and Manipulation.
If there was an actual problem, the price of beef would skyrocket, and a quarter pound of beef would cost $250 and you wouldn’t eat hamburgers anymore.
But, since there isn’t a problem, and beef is relatively affordable, the Powerful People need to get you to change your eating habits, because it makes them feel good to get the little people to do stupid stuff.
I read that earlier today, no beef thawed, so I opted for eggs and bacon. We’ll make steaks tonight. Too bad Eipcurious is opted to virtual signal and push this BS as I’ve occasionally found good recipes on their site. I’ll skip them from now on.
I wonder how much of the company has been infiltrated with Indians? That might also explain this un-American and rather stupid move.
The price will rise soon enough like it did for ammo and lumber and will again for gas.
The ONLY reasons I don’t buy beef more often is because #1..The price in my area has shot up over the last year
#2..I’m still learning how to cook it so that it’s tender, and without taking all bleeping day to get that way. No, I don’t have my own Grill handy.
OK so no beef.
Tofu though, is linked to cancer.
Oceans are over-fished.
And chickens get Avian flu.
Pork causes heart disease.
And no more than 3 eggs a week.
Eat your spinach.
The stupidity of modern society and culture in The West is simply breathtaking.
When civilizations collapse.
Sous Vide. You can cook tough, cheap cuts of meat in a sous vide bath at 129 deg for 48 hrs and have tender, medium rare, steak even off a chuck roast.
I do admit that I maintain a subscription to New York Times Cooking (yes, I feel dirty and I’m a hypocrite). I cook from it quite frequently (probably 3-4 times a week). We don’t cook a lot of beef recipes from it — probably once every two weeks — but I would definitely consider cancelling my subscription of they went down this path. It’s nice to mix it up and fine food is one of the great joys of life.
Woke enters the kitchen...
The key is to do what we can to make sure there is no company as a consequence of this fiasco.
Eliminate elephants, Wilde beasts, pigs, antelope, deer, chickens, giraffes, hippos, buffalo, crocks and gators. Hell, just kill all animals just to be sure.
My point really isn’t about prices. Simple supply and demand handles that stuff. If there is a lot of it, it’s cheap. If there is less of it, then it’s expensive. But that’s not the point here.
This is manipulation. It doesn’t matter how much beef is available. It doesn’t matter if it is pricey or cheap. The Powerful People simply want you to eat less beef. Full stop. Because.
This is about control.
They proved that they can force people to wear certain articles of clothing.
Now they need to find out if they can control what you eat.
Cows are very sustainable. I pass dozens and dozens of pastures with cows each day and there are many, many baby cows in every pasture. I sell out my hay crop easily each year to people with cows.
All human beings have a greater impact on the environment than all animals combined. However, this does not mean that human activity is causing whatever the global climate “crisis” is the cause of the day. Are we supposed to eliminate all farm, sport and pleasure animals, crawl back into caves and revert to the Cro Magnon era just to satisfy power hungry totalitarians?
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