Posted on 09/20/2023 8:49:05 AM PDT by Red Badger
Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego has set out to lay the groundwork to ban meat, dairy, and cars in order to meet climate goals for the 2030 Agenda with C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group.
In August, The Daily Fetched reported that fourteen American cities are set to ban meat, private vehicle ownership, and dairy under a new goal assigned by a globalist climate organization called the “C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group.”
Those 14 cities are part of a far-left climate organization headed by billionaire globalist Mike Bloomberg, which follows the World Economic Forum’s ‘great reset‘ agenda
According to the organization’s website, as of August 4, 2023, C40 has a membership with “mayors of nearly 100 world-leading cities collaborating to confront the climate crisis.”
Phoenix Mayor Gallego now serves as “Vice Chair of the C40 Steering Committee,” which provides rigorous oversight to ensure C40’s mission is driven by and responsive to the needs of C40 cities and their climate goals.
Their mission and mandate include a Race to Zero global campaign which aims to reach net-zero carbon emissions in 1,000 cities with “sustainable food policies” that support “an overall increase of healthy plant-based food consumption in our cities by shifting away from unsustainable, unhealthy diets,” Ie, meat diets.
Meanwhile, Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs recently declared a “heat state of emergency,” mainly in Phoenix, which will likely accelerate the implementation of these radical WEF policies.
However, some angry Arizona residents attended the Phoenix City Council meeting and reportedly “told the MayorMayor they do not support policies banning meat.
The same day, the Phoenix Mayor posted a photo on X, claiming she was not looking to ban meat or dairy.
In the photo, Gallego is seen pouring milk into a bowl and seemingly “enjoying cereal” with a knife.
As Jeff Caldwell from AZ Free News reported:
A couple weeks ago, after Mayor Gallego did her interviews and headed home from the City Council meeting on September 6, she posted a photo on X of her pouring milk from a $7 half-gallon carton into an empty bowl next to a knife. (Because what normal person doesn’t enjoy eating cereal with a knife?)
While Gallego says she is not banning meat, there is no meat in the photo.
What made her post this image with these self-righteous campaign slogans under her Official X account?
The power of Public Comment.
Earlier that day, about a dozen Grassroots citizens attended the Phoenix City Council meeting and told the MayorMayor they do not support policies banning meat.
A constant factor was brought up by multiple public speakers: Gallego is the Vice-Chair of the C40 Cities. According to the C40 Cities website, “C40 is a global network of mayors of the world’s leading cities that are united in action to confront the climate crisis.” C40 has many documents outlining the organization’s desire to reduce and abolish the consumption of meat.
And the citizens don’t want it!
The troubling fact is, on March 4, 2020, Gallego and the Council passed the 2025 Phoenix Food Action Plan. In Strategy 2, under Goal 1, the fifth “Progress on Action” creates a new policy for the Office of Environmental Programs (OEP) at the City of Phoenix to enter a contract with Arizona State University to “establish an AgriFood Tech Incubator in 2023 to accelerate ventures in sustainable food systems…”
But this is nothing new. The City of Phoenix has multiple policies for sustainable food systems in the 2020 Greenhouse Gas Emissions Inventory report conducted by ASU. And Gallego also has many policies tied to ASU. In fact, she is funding and has teamed up with the college for multiple environmental and sustainable projects. What type of environmentally sustainable policies does ASU believe in?
Let’s check out their degrees in “Sustainable Food Systems.” The Bachelor of Science degree states, “Students become effective agents of change” and “Students are engaged in an active community collectively working to achieve the 2030 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.” The degree for Online Master of Science in Sustainable Food Systems lists Kathleen Merrigan as the leader of the degree program.
According to ASU’s biography page for Merrigan, she is the Kelly and Brian Swette Professor in the School of Sustainability and executive director of the Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems. She was listed as one of Time magazine’s Top 100 Most Influential People in the World in 2010. And she is a partner in Astanor Ventures along with being an advisor to S2G Ventures—two firms investing in ag-tech innovation. Merrigan also holds a PhD in Public Policy and Environmental Planning from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In an article titled, “In Light of Climate Change Debates, ASU Continues Sustainability Efforts,” Merrigan is quoted as saying, “Get rid of the plastic water bottles, eat less meat…” to make ASU more sustainable. Furthermore, ASU has a research program that is teamed up with Merrigan and the Swette Center for Sustainable Food Systems. The program states it is ASU’s desire to find out how to implement “dietary shifts towards plant-based diets” through “interventions.” People’s eating habits in reaction to COVID-19 lockdowns, a major intervention in society, are listed in this document.
Now, consider one major food intervention taken by Mayor Gallego. Just two weeks after passing the 2025 Phoenix Food Action Plan, she decided to lock Phoenix down due to COVID. After the lockdown began, the Medical Director for Disease Control with the Maricopa County Department of Public Health, Dr. Sunenshine, gave public testimony at the March 23, 2020 Phoenix City Council meeting. Dr Sunenshine stated that the MayorMayor shut the city down without reaching out to her office first. Dr. Sunenshine also said she would have recommended staying open.
Locking down the city implemented the most direct intervention on eating habits we have seen in our lifetime. Shutting down restaurants cut off 50% of our food supply because the government prevents restaurant food from being sold in grocery stores. The lockdown drastically constrained supply, damaged the supply chain for food, and helped lead to the astronomical food prices we see today.
While Gallego is able to say she is not literally banning meat, she is implementing policies that make meat more expensive and will lead to major reductions of meat consumption in the future. Dare I suggest by 2030?
Just to demonstrate that Gallego is implementing an ideology and that this is not isolated to only Phoenix, consider this. On April 24, 2023, Gallego posted a video with Mayor Quinton Lucas from Kansas City celebrating his “first fully-autonomous ride with Waymo.” Does Kansas City have a plan to reduce meat consumption?
Of course, they do! Under Lucas, Kansas City passed its Climate Action Plan in September 2022. Kansas City’s Climate Action Plan Food section in each division of Kansas City lists promoting plant-based diets!
Another city recently popped up in the news cycle. Chicago is possibly going to open city-owned grocery stores, so I looked up their action plans. In 2021, Chicago began reducing red meat from its schools, juvenile detention center, and Chicago Park District menus. The same document identifying Chicago reducing meat claims Chicago wants “to foster more racially and socially equitable supply chains across the region.” They are saying the quiet part out loud! They want to disrupt the supply chain to reduce meat consumption. Now, if Chicago does end up opening city-owned grocery stores, do you think they will sell meat? Absolutely not!
But let’s get back to Mayor Gallego’s post from a little over a week ago. Her claim of reducing energy costs is another bold-faced lie. Gallego teamed up with the “Climate Mayors” from across the country to release an op-ed on September 10, 2023 claiming the implementation of green energy plans have reduced the cost of energy!
But mayors cannot claim they are reducing energy costs! The cost of energy is set by Corporation Commissions with utilities providers. Mayors have nothing to do with the cost of energy.
But let’s pretend they do. The Federal Reserve states that the cost of energy for the Greater Phoenix Area is skyrocketing! It’s higher than at any point over the past five years!
LOL!
I was maybe 17 and some guys put a smoke bomb in my car....said they would take a look...and sent me across the load to get a left handed monkey wrench....I suppose they laughed for weeks...
You citizens of Phoenix elected her, now deal with it. Don’t come crying to the rest of us.
no recall provision i take it...
ASU has gone loco!
Arizonans need to revolt against the meat, milk, and car bans, and to stop funding ASU until sanity is restored there!!
I hope that the U of A in Tucson (the real flagship of higher education in Arizona) is still OK! But I don’t know if it is!
I’m an Anglo, and I love carne, puerco, and pollo (and Mexican food in general) too!!!!
Oh my gosh, it gets hot in Arizona? In the summertime? Outrageous!
I didn’t vote for her!
Yes. That level of surveillance and control is EXACTLY what these evil people have in mind.
“I’m an Anglo, and I love carne, puerco, and pollo (and Mexican food in general) too!!!!”
Same here. I had a GF that was Mexican from San Antonio and she taught me how to cook Mex real good. My favorite cuisine, now. I’m not giving up any of it willingly and for the left to say “you have to” is fighting words.
My Dad sent me after a left-handed monkey wrench, too. I went to every one of his employees-about 8 or 10- asking for that thing. I got ribbed for a few days
“Hey, did you ever find that wrench?”
One would think that all the illegal aliens streaming into these cities would be eager to get hold of some meat, milk, and obtain a car, even if just a junker, to get around in.
Everything FREE in Amerika!.....................
Ain’t that the truth?
I was too optimistic.
“Sure, sounds like a plan - until the thefts, robberies and hijackings start. Dweebs like her never factor human nature into their lofty schemes. Crime begets further crime and it all spirals into chaos instead of the mindless obedience that they expect.”
Leftists use and therefore enjoy chaos unless or until it trickles down to where it effects them personally and their families. It’s A-OK when it’s only effecting others, though.
Just look at that face, it has mentally ill written all over it
The western leaders are all socialists.
I wonder how much money she and the others were given to sell out their countries?
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