Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Heura Foods is horrified that their petition to put climate friendly Vegan food on the menu at the upcoming Glasgow COP26 climate conference is being ignored.
Plant-Based Food Is Critical In the Fight Against Climate Change. So Why Isn’t It a Priority at COP26?
CLIMATE CHANGE VEGAN
By Jill Ettinger
Published on Aug 25, 2021In a petition posted to Change.org, Spanish vegan meat brand Heura Foods is urging UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson to bring vegan food to the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP26) scheduled to take place in November in Glasgow.
“We have listened to your words. We have noticed your (lack of) actions. Now it’s time to act and address diet as a key way to drive positive impact on the climate crisis,” the brand’s co-founders Mark Coloma and Bernat Ananos Martinez wrote in a post to LinkedIn.
The two-week summit’s aim is to accelerate dialogues and actions around Paris Agreement and the UN’s Framework Convention on Climate Change.
To that, Heura Foods says there is “more than enough data” to validate plant-based foods as a means to help slow the climate emergency. Yet the COP26 menu options are not entirely plant-based, according to the brand.
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Read more: https://www.greenqueen.com.hk/plant-based-food-climate-change-cop26/
I think everyone at WUWT shares my horror that climate friendly vegan foods might be underrepresented at COP26. Imagine the misery; How will our leaders live with having to consume high carbon food like roast beef and caviar, texan style BBQ brisket, Italian pasta, cheese cake, bacon, ham, salmon and cream cheese, when what they really want is to lead by example, by turning COP26 into a showcase for climate friendly salads?
Imagine if COP26 host British PM Boris Johnson was deprived of the option of choosing vegetarian food, and had no option other than to tuck into a big juicy tender rare steak instead, dripping with gravy, sauce, condiments and CO2 emissions, one guilt ridden bite at a time?
We at WUWT urge everyone to sign the petition now, the ensure our leaders are properly provided with climate friendly vegan food options.
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What’s the point of going to a conference if you can’t dine on great food? Otherwise, they could Zoom these conferences.
And c’mon man. Do you expect the elites to eat common folk vegan food?
Beinz meinz fartz!
After flying all the way to Edinburgh from all over the globe … what difference does it make?
As Brit comedian Gary Delany said in his act, based on the general idea of a poor diet for Scots, “the forbidden fruit in Glasgow,………………………is fruit!!!
Forget vegan food.
An Eco-friendly insect diet should be mandatory, after all that’s what they want for us peasants.
That would sort out the hypocrites.
Great point. If they were forced to eat vegan for two weeks, it would be a reality check for them. Bojo may even manage to lose some weight. ( He’d be fasting. ).
I don’t see the point of this petition. These days it would be highly unusual for a UK menu not to have vegan and vegetarian options. A large percentage of COP26 delegates will be vegans and I am sure they will be well catered for already at a venue such as this.
What would make the point better is if ONY vegan food was available. The press could then have fun following the carne-delegates (with their masks on and hoods up) sneaking off to the local Burger King after dark. That would be more fun I think.
Done. Great initiative!
Next one we demand they walk to their silly conferences
as long as its ONLY vegan everything?
inc desserts!
vegan icecreams marketed here seem to be staying on shelves or thrown out at 1/3 prices Ive noted, cant be so yummy I guess LOL
Apparently, vegans will save the world – just by their choices of what I put in my body.
Signed it!
It’s Glasgow, may be an improvement
As I read this I am eating a nice piece of beef jerky doing my part to green the earth
Serve nothing. They want to live like it’s the stone age, let them.
Another one I’ll file under “Great Minds Think Alike.”
Thought it’s more like “They want everyone except themselves to live like it’s the Stone Age,” and therein lies the problem. The old “rules for thee, but none for me” hypocrisy.
They should practice what they preach.
I’d rather sign a petition to have NO food served at COP 26, since that will be the result of their pointless “War On Fossil Fuels” for most of humanity (assuming humanity does not stop them) and they should be “committed” enough to experience the result of what they preach to everyone else first hand.
Eat a beaver…save a tree!