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Meat on the menu, not the agenda, at COP27 climate conference
Reuters via Yahoo ^ | November 15, 2022 | By Richard Valdmanis and Tim Cocks

Posted on 11/15/2022 6:07:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

SHARM EL-SHEIKH, Egypt, Nov 15 (Reuters) - On any morning at the COP27 climate conference, you can expect a gauntlet of anti-meat protesters wearing pig and cow costumes, holding banners decrying the carbon footprint of livestock, and chanting slogans like "Let's be vegan, let's be free."

Activist groups and corporate startups have descended on the two-week climate summit in Egypt to heap pressure on the hundreds of global policy makers there over the world's love affair with meat and its role in warming.

Their demands range from lowering meat consumption to policies as seemingly outlandish as transitioning to cell-based meat grown in steel vats, which could eliminate the need for feed crops, ranch land and slaughterhouses.

Cows, sheep, pigs and other livestock are responsible for about 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions, according to a peer-reviewed assessment led by researchers at the University of Illinois and published last year.

And researchers fear the impact may be greater, after recent efforts to measure emissions at individual U.S. farms - by, say, flying a methane-detecting plane over them – showed them churning out much more than estimated.

Realising they can no longer ignore the role of food production in warming, negotiators from nearly 200 countries at COP27 are holding discussions focused on it for the first time in the U.N. summit's nearly three-decade history.

Yet reducing meat and dairy output is not yet on the agenda for governments, many of which give billions of dollars to livestock farmers in subsidies. Instead, they are advancing policies to reduce the emissions that livestock make, including with feed additives that reduce the gas livestock emit, and cutting or capturing the methane wafting off manure heaps.

Activists aren't buying it.

(Excerpt) Read more at finance.yahoo.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: globalwarming; hoax; propaganda; socialism

1 posted on 11/15/2022 6:07:29 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You’ll have to pry my bacon from my cold dead hands!


2 posted on 11/15/2022 6:09:00 AM PST by Tell It Right (1st Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
protesters wearing pig and cow costumes

Egypt is 90% Muslim, wearing that pig costume is dangerous

3 posted on 11/15/2022 6:12:10 AM PST by Jolla
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“…researchers fear the impact (of meat methane) may be greater…”

Does anybody besides those liberal “researchers” who make a living off this scam care?


4 posted on 11/15/2022 6:14:29 AM PST by ProtectOurFreedom (If you're not part of the solution, you're just scumming up the bottom of the beaker!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Remember-—

Got
Milk?

Well,

Got
Bugs?


5 posted on 11/15/2022 6:15:33 AM PST by William of Barsoom (In Omnia, Paratus)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Had a NY Strip steak last night.

It was delicious.


6 posted on 11/15/2022 6:18:25 AM PST by BBQToadRibs2
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I’d park a food truck across the street serving double bacon cheeseburgers with fries and a coke for $10. And have someone out front offering free samples.


7 posted on 11/15/2022 6:20:47 AM PST by Wizdum (Tyranny always ends badly for the tyrannical. Ask Ceaușescu, Gaddafi or Saddam.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many hundreds of private jets flew to the Climate Conference, inquiring minds want to know?


8 posted on 11/15/2022 6:20:50 AM PST by Roadrunner383 (;)
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To: Tell It Right
mmm, mmm, mmm

9 posted on 11/15/2022 6:21:10 AM PST by budj (Combat vet, second of three generations.)
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To: Jolla

Good.


10 posted on 11/15/2022 6:21:31 AM PST by EEGator
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

BS. Once the cameras quit clicking the pate and other delights will come out.


11 posted on 11/15/2022 6:23:05 AM PST by Professional Engineer (Looks like I'll have to buy the White Album again.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You want Soylent Green?

Cuz this is how you get Soylent Green!


12 posted on 11/15/2022 6:38:55 AM PST by RedMonqey
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To: Roadrunner383

Add the luxury hotel rooms, the bottled water, the gourmet food, & all the other perks. Where’s my taxpayer funded vacation???


13 posted on 11/15/2022 6:53:28 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Cows, sheep, pigs and other livestock are responsible for about 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions

BULL SHIITE!......................

14 posted on 11/15/2022 7:14:01 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: BBQToadRibs2

I haven’t had one in a while. Medium to medium-rare for me…😛


15 posted on 11/15/2022 7:34:00 AM PST by telescope115 (Proud member of the ANTIFAuci movement. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
"Activist groups and corporate startups have descended on the two-week climate summit in Egypt to heap pressure on the hundreds of global policy makers there over the world's love affair with meat and its role in warming."

How hard would it be to grow a week's beard, slip into an Egpytian dishdasha and headscarf, and point to Greenpeace and Soros-funded protestors and shout "They insulted the Prophet!" in Egyptian.

16 posted on 11/15/2022 7:46:12 AM PST by StAnDeliver (Tanned, rested, and ready.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Cows, sheep, pigs and other livestock are responsible for about 20% of global greenhouse gas emissions...”

Okay, but leftists are responsible for 100% of the complaining about greenhouse gas emissions. I know who I’d rather eliminate.


17 posted on 11/15/2022 8:19:30 AM PST by Boogieman
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
How's a guy supposed to get a wife if he doesn't have any cows?


18 posted on 11/15/2022 9:04:23 AM PST by seowulf (Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos...Will Durant)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Coldest November in my lifetime here in the PNW. It hasn’t even been above freezing for two weeks. Give me some of that global warming now.


19 posted on 11/15/2022 11:16:28 AM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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