NOT an April fool’s joke.~ctm
By Irina Slav – Apr 01, 2019, 10:00 AM CDT
A study has suggested Caucasian Americans’ diet is contributing significantly more to climate change than the diets of other demographic groups in the country. The study, published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology, said white people contributed the most to greenhouse gas emissions, at 680 kg of carbon dioxide equivalent annually, but added that the Black demographic had the highest contribution to land impacts related to food.
The study set out to “fill in the gaps” in research about how various dietary habits affect the environment along the whole supply chain from land resources to water and energy. It focused on three demographic groups—White, non-Hispanic Back, and Latino—since they represent 92.4 percent of the U.S. population and looked into their eating habits to glean some insight into the relation between these habits and what it calls the food-energy-water nexis.
The study’s authors note that the White population, as portion of the U.S. total, was 61.3 percent, with Latinx—a term the authors of the study call intersectional and non-binary to reflect the latest term trends in social sciences—accounting for 17.8 percent and the Black population accounting for 13.3 percent.
In light of these proportions it’s hardly surprising the White population’s diet was a greater contributor to climate change in terms of greenhouse emissions. However, the study also suggested that the White group’s diet was a greater contributor to climate change because of its higher consumption of what the authors call “environmentally intense” food items.\
Read the full oilprice.com article here.
HT/RonPE
“Study Blames White American’s Diet For Climate Change”
Wow. Just one guy’s diet?
Studies indicate that it is actually Al Gore…
One popular geoengineering strategy to counter global warming is increasing the earth’s albedo by injecting reflective aerosols into the atmosphere reducing ASR and cooling the earth.
More albedo and the earth cools.
Less albedo and the earth warms.
Zero albedo and the earth bakes at 250 F.
This appears to contradict greenhouse theory which says the atmosphere warms the earth and with no atmosphere the earth becomes a frozen ball of ice.
A failure of greenhouse theory means no CO2 warming and no man caused climate change.
Looks like a whole lot of instantly unemployed experts, hack journalists and talking heads will have to find something useful to do.
Ugh, auto correct.
Slaves. Not spaces.
Whites. Not whores.
Us. Not is.
Whenever I see the word, “diversity”, I run the other way.
Wow, I’ve never seen racism so meticulously fabricated into the appearance of legitimate reasoning. But I should point out that the white man’s language has been appropriated here to enable this BS to rise to this position.
“Diversity Science” ??
… = Racisim Science
And one more thing [I was a vegetarian for about five years, by the way]:
Vegetarian = Meat Nazi
Blacks who eat meat, thus, are subject to meat-nazi tactics, just as their diverse brothers/sisters are. Meat, therefore, can unite us.
Carnivore lives matter !!
Kind of like: “see the eat in meat”? [By the way, I still don’t eat meat since 50 years ago.] As for original post blame appropriation, I consider it spurious.
Where do you get your vitamin B12 from? Your body can’t synthesize it like most other animals.
I think you are confusing Vegetarians with vegans.
Vegetarian foods high in vitamin B12 include fortified cereals, fortified fruit juices, fortified tofu, yogurt, milk, cheese, eggs, vitamin water, and whey powder.
Now, Vegans, on the other hand can’t have the natural sources (yogurt, milk, cheese, eggs, or whey powder) so are limited to artificial sources (fortified foods and vitamin water).
John,
No, I understand the difference between the two groups, I just don’t see a real distinction. They are both cheating in as much as all B12 supplements are made from animal sources. The same is true for “fortified” foods. Looks a lot like hypocrisy and virtue signaling to me.
They are both cheating in as much as all B12 supplements are made from animal sources
How is eating yogurt, eggs, milk and/or cheese “cheating” for vegetarians (people who don’t eat meat)? milk is not meat. Cheese is not meat. yogurt is not meat. If you think any of those are off limits for someone who does not eat meat (vegetarian) than you clearly don’t understand the difference between vegetarian and vegan. That you point to “animal sources” in regards to vegetarians, proves you don’t understand the difference. It’s Vegans who are against “animal sources” beyond just meat. vegetarians are against eating meat (because animals die to provide the meat), they are not against any animal sources that don’t result in dead animals (like milk & cheese for example).
I will grant you that Vegans are cheating if the supplements/fortifications are made from animal sources – however, as I understand it, B12 supplements are made from bacteria and archaea*, if true that would not be “cheating” as far as vegans are concerned.
* (as, BTW, is all the animal sources of B12. The animals don’t make the B12, it’s the bacteria they carry as part of their gut biome that does so)
John,
It is difficult to get enough B12 from milk and cheese to stay healthy. I know people that have tried. They got ill and now eat a hamburger a week; they just don’t tell their vegetarian friends, not realizing that they are most likely doing the same. (I still think most vegetarians are cheating since they oppose “corporate farming”, however affordable , highly available dairy products would not be possible without high density techniques which they consider inhumane.)
Also, I am not aware of any company making commercial quantities of B12 directly from bacteria, perhaps you could enlighten me. There are some small suppliers that make supplements from fungus, but it’s expensive and limited. There’s certainly not enough to supply all the declared vegans and vegetarians out there. Almost all B12 supplements come from the slaughterhouse.
It is difficult to get enough B12 from milk and cheese to stay healthy. I know people that have tried. They got ill and now eat a hamburger a week;
Your bigotry and ignorance is showing. I’ve met a few perfectly healthy vegetarians, and they DO NOT eat a hamburger a week (or ever). Look, as a fellow meat eater, I get it, you don’t go for the vegetarian lifestyle, but that no excuse for being an ignorant bigot about others choices.
Oh, and by the way, B12 is synthesized in the human body, same way it is it for other animals (from the bacteria inside us), it’s just that we can’t make use of the B12 made in our bodies because it is made in the colon which is downstream from the small intestines (where the absorption of most nutrients occurs). consequentially feces is a rich source of B12 (though I don’t recommend adding feces to ones diet, not even for vegans).
Well, another common trait with fascism – it’s openly – even proudly – racist.
the attempt to guilt me will not work! in fact it will cause quite opposite reaction. Piss off environmental do-gooders!
I would love to see the sampling method used – there simply is no way any questionaire can measure which and how much of each food type the various ethnic populations eat. That is way beyond the capabilities of any organization. They also chose the wrong indepodendent variable. The highest corrlation between food-carbon production would be correlated very strongly with a person’s size, not their ethnic background. In using race as the independent variable, they are displaying their racist views
Indeed. Not just the persons size but Also, I’d suspect, the person’s wealth. Rich people tend to have more access to healthier less-processed (but more expensive) foods whereas poor people tend to rely on cheap heavily-processed foods.
But it’s … “diversity science”.
You clearly do not understand the concept. (^_^)
This infatuation with labeling people and placing them into categories is really getting old. Everyone in the fossil fuels industry is contributing to climate change, so we will place them in the evil climate changers category. That person is evil because he’s sexist, so we will place him in the sexist category. This person is evil because he seems to be racist to me, so he’s in the racist category. White Caucasian diets contribute too much to climate change, so they are also in the evil climate changers category.
Meanwhile, we have Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam who is openly antisemitic, yet he gets off virtually scot-free from the looks of it. The U.S. Congressional Black Caucus is reported to have ties to him, but they get off scot-free as well. All those individuals out there doing the labeling and categorizing are apparently “enlightened enough” to decide who is to be labeled and categorized and who is not. Interesting.
I admit to being tempted to label and categorize people myself at times—it is something we all probably find difficult to avoid. But the rate at which it is going on in the MSM, in academia and on internet social media today is rising to the level of fanatical IMHO. But, as the Good Book says, do not judge others unless you are willing to be judged.
The amount of time spent judging, labeling and categorizing people (as the authors of the study in this post do) would be better spent learning how not to do it. But that is far easier said than done.
(1) Anyone using the non-word “Latinx” has just outed themselves as an intellectual tool.
(2) There is no “data” anywhere worthy of that name capable of proving what whites, Americans, or anyone else eats over a period of years. Unless you think epidemiologists’ “Food Frequency Questionnaires” represent anything remotely useful. Could you state accurately how many “cups of ribs” you ate in 1989?
(3) The framers of the US nutrition guidelines are known to have been heavily freighted with 7th Day Adventists, a religious sect that requires vegetarianism. The rest of the world by and large accepts the US guidelines. It is well documented by now that these guidelines are heavily politically and market influenced, and have jack-squat to do with the known biochemistry of human feeding requirements.
(4) Want to have a revolution, real fast? Come for our beef and bacon. I dare you! Molon labe!! 🙂
(2) There is no “data” anywhere worthy of that name capable of proving what whites, Americans, or anyone else eats over a period of years.
Indeed. As a middle class white American (whose family has been here for generations) who has eaten with middle class “African-Americans” (whose families have been here for generations), I’ve seen no difference between the two in food choices (even the foods stereotypically associated with one of the groups, like “fried chicken”, are liked and eaten equally by both groups). While I can imagine that first generation un-assimilated Latin-Americans likely do have a different diet, the same could be said of first generation un-assimilated members of the other races as well.
I wonder whether the authors of this paper realize they’ve ranked whites highest in social status. No one else may be criticized.
This is just STUPID…
Spanish nouns are binary… In that they are masculine or feminine. That’s how the fracking language works.
https://www.spanishdict.com/guide/masculine-and-feminine-nouns
That is actually what the term ‘gender’ is for. The male/female distinction used to be just ‘sex’ until that started sounding rude.
If I’m not mistaken, “Toaster” is feminine in Spanish.
I seriously doubt there is any element of “Toxic Masculinity” involved in that designation.
That’s just how almost every language works, except English.
In English, “Mankind” used to be understood by everyone as ALL of Mankind …er… Humanity.
But some PC FemiNazis got their panties in a wad so now it’s “sexist”.
Man! What a mess! 😎
This is nothing more than racist clap by: “This study was funded in part by the Institute for Environmental Science and Policy of the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Diversity Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Fellowship from Bayer‐Monsanto”
Like beef cattle, rice paddies are a major source of man-made methane so what about the eating habits of 700,000 Chinese men in China. What about the 650 million Caucasian men in India. No mention in the study. How does clap like this get funded?
ANSWER: If you call it … “diversity science”, … then you can get it funded.
I can’t let it go.
In addition, large non-Caucasian populations in the world consume lamb. There are over a billion sheep in the world, more than cattle. They, too, produce methane. So unless these advocates promote changing the diets of most of the world’s population, taxing meat in the US would just be a token gesture, achieving nothing.
I propose that we send these advocates to Asia minor, then they can work their way eastward preaching the evils of eating lamb and rice. After they get a buy-in, then we can talk. Until then, I’ll continue enjoying my steaks and burgers.
Of course they left out us “native americans.”
I’ll think about that every time my brother in law sends me a care-package of fresh Alaskan salmon.
(kind of scarce where I live in the “lower 48”)
Come to think of it, maybe I could team up with a few guys from the rez to hold a few genuine northwest native salmon bakes on their front lawns. Might be fun.
Cheers,
Kat
(female person of color / red)
After extensive soul searching, I have decided to remain white.
I too have decided to stay white, except in Summer on those occasions when prolonged outdoor activities invariable end up turning me red (those are the only two colors I ever manage to achieve).
You can’t teach an old dog new tricks.
PS God is color blind. Why aren’t we? We don’t listen?
demographic groups—White, non-Hispanic Back, and Latino—since they represent 92.4 percent –>
demographic groups—White, non-Hispanic Black, and Latino—since they represent 92.4 percent
Whatever comes labeled “demography”
most likely transports “demagoguery”.