German daily newspaper Bild: Only one sausage per month for everyone! – “Less meat consumption = better climate? The Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture has calculated that even halving meat consumption would bring Germany one percentage point closer to its climate goals.” … “No one wants to ban people from their occasional currywurst. But overall meat consumption in the population is too high for health and sustainability reasons, it’s a scientific fact“, indicates the DGE to the German newspaper.
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The German Nutrition Society (DGE) now recommends reducing meat consumption to 10 grams per day per person to combat global warming. … A sudden and radical renunciation: The average meat consumption of Germans is 109 grams per day, or about 763 grams per week. The population will therefore have to drastically change its eating behavior if it agrees to comply with this new strategy.
By: Admin – Climate Depot
German daily newspaper Bild: Only one sausage per month for everyone!
The DGE is no longer just about health – But the DGE is no longer just concerned with health reasons! The background to the planned meat reform is something completely different: in the future, environmental factors such as “sustainability” will also be taken into account in the recommendations.
Less meat consumption = better climate? The Lower Saxony Chamber of Agriculture has calculated that even halving meat consumption would bring Germany one percentage point closer to its climate goals. Rather, the big chunk of CO2 emissions is the energy sector (including lignite-fired power plants).
︎ Heike Harstick, general manager of the meat association, is appalled. She tells BILD: “Even in Germany, many people are already undersupplied with certain nutrients, such as iron or vitamin B12. If the new nutritional recommendations presented by the DGE were to remain and such a drastic reduction in animal-based foods recommended, the deficiency would increase.” The planned reference values are “in no way scientifically proven”.
In general, the DGE emphasizes: “Nobody wants to forbid people to eat their currywurst occasionally. But overall meat consumption in the population is too high for health and sustainability reasons, that’s a scientific fact.”
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https://time.news/only-10-grams-of-meat-per-day-in-germany/
According to a information reported by the German daily Bild, the German Nutrition Society (DGE) now recommends reducing meat consumption to 10 grams per day per person to combat global warming. A real earthquake in the land of currywurst.
On May 22, it was the Court of Auditors which suggested to the French, in a detailed report, to reduce their meat consumption to 500 grams per week.
A sudden and radical renunciation
The average meat consumption of Germans is 109 grams per day, or about 763 grams per week. The population will therefore have to drastically change its eating behavior if it agrees to comply with this new strategy. A previous recommendation from the same organization was less severe (600 grams of meat per week), so why such a reversal?
The German nutrition authority tells the daily Bild that it now takes into account factors other than just “health” to base its decisions on.
Cattle farming sacrificed on the altar of global warming
« No one wants to ban people from their occasional currywurst. But overall meat consumption in the population is too high for health and sustainability reasons, it’s a scientific fact“, indicates the DGE to the German newspaper.
From now on, environmental factors are also an integral part of the evaluation criteria of the nutrition agency. This means that it no longer confines itself to stating how much meat is healthy, or what kind of meat to avoid, it also takes into account the CO₂ balance of food.
Admittedly, the DGE only publishes recommendations. Just don’t follow them. Except that this body is also a certification body.
Not just a recommendation
Some activities depend directly on the approval of the DGE, this is particularly the case for school canteens. Indeed, it awards certificates to canteens. Those that do not have it are almost considered unhealthy. Will the nutrition authority continue to issue certifications to canteens that offer meat beyond the recommended quota?
Note that the directives of the DGE have been taken into account in the new nutritional strategy proposed by the German Minister of Agriculture Cem Özdemir. “The Pathway to the Federal Government’s Nutrition Strategy” was adopted by his cabinet in December 2022 and a plan is due to be approved by the end of the year.
Farmers have been protesting the decision in the same way they recently did in the Netherlands this summer, but the initiative is moving forward beginning this year. Now, to the great surprise of nobody who has been paying attention, the German Meat Industry Association has reported that the country will be facing a severe meat shortage by the time spring arrives and consumers should expect prices to skyrocket, potentially doubling in some cases.
I do not know whether vegetarians or greens are more evangelical and intolerant. When you have someone who is both,. .
I would go with the climate fanatics, they think they’re saving the entire world.
Suggesting they can legislate what you eat shows the mentality of those involved. This will prove to be a step too far for the dilettante dictators.
Climate fanatics are interested in forcing you to save the planet on their terms.
Leftists in general believe that human rights means that all humans have the right to behave exactly how leftists want them to behave.
Further confirmation of Blair’s Law coined by Australian journalist Tim Blair as “the ongoing process by which the world’s multiple idiocies are becoming one giant, useless force”.
The CO2 of one trip across the Atlantic in Kerry’s private jet (from Washington DC to Brussels) is equal to the CO2 of about 40,000 sausages.
EXCERPT:
BIDEN’s GREEN ENERGY POLICY MAY “END IN TEARS”
https://www.windtaskforce.org/profiles/blogs/biden-s-green-energy-policy-may-end-in-tears-1
Germany’s green energy policy, ENERGIEWENDE, launched in the year 2000, could have been a cheap lesson for America today.
High subsidies for wind and solar have had a costly impact on consumers who still need fossil fuels.
The Biden Administration’s push toward green energy has failed to balance energy demand with the reality of the resources we have at our disposal.
American Founding Father Benjamin Franklin once said: “Experience is an expensive school, but fools will learn in no other.”
However, the Biden administration has chosen to follow foolish Germany, providing heavy subsidies for wind and solar, while suppressing industries that could reliably meet America’s energy needs for hundreds of years, and reduce its carbon footprint.
Global Warming has become the little green book of the new cultural revolution. Mass mobilization is compulsory, not a choice.
I believe revolution is a possible choice.
It’s wurst than we thought 🤡
Groannn………🤣
It’s the way I tell ‘em!
Yep, you really snookered us on that one!
Nah! I’d be proud of that one
The SOS Age is now official. Time to check the gun and get in the ammo and beef jerky.
If they ban cheese too we will have the wurst käse scenario..
Food shortages are probably the best way to get a population out on the streets rioting.
The attendant inflation of these insane green policies is hastening poverty and the inevitable backlash. Dangerous times ahead.
The green policies, fulfilled, would create food shortages.
Telling everyone, ahead of time, that it is your neighbors’ fault because they ate 10 sausages a month for the last three years, while you could only afford to eat one, may work to divide neighbors & delay riots.
I’ll believe they’re serious when John Kerry gives up his steak au poivre.
I imagine he’ll be dining on steak while traveling in a private jet and telling us to ride a bike and eat insects. The elite are big on hypocrisy.
It occurs to me that it might not be such a hardship after all. Very soon the Germans won’t have enough energy to cook with anyway, so it’ll be a diet of raw vegetables.
If there’s no energy for cooking then there’s always Steak Tatar…
Yuck
Long story but I once a very long time ago ate raw ground beef under primitive conditions. I spent the night pooping in a hole in the ground. It took many years before I could stomach meat that wasn’t well done. Best I can do is medium rare.
What are Germany’s climate goals that this meat is one per cent of? They must have a further 99% laid out somehow? Could we be let in on it? Bollox
Chose any Western nation conforming to the NetZero agenda. Add up all the claims from all the government departments and NGO’s as to how much CO2 will be saved by their individual, and unrelated policies. Suddenly the world is in negative CO2, despite China and India.
Is this some sort of….you know….legacy of the Fuhrer?
Well, he was a vegetarian…. but to my knowledge he never sought to ban meat. However, he did manage to starve vast numbers of people to death.
Probably not. Just a kink in the German psyche. Human psyche maybe.
These agencies are wrong about meat being bad for your health and wrong about animals affecting the climate,
The only thing that needs to be removed for the population to benefit is for these government agencies to cease to exist.
Assuming that burps and farts of CO2 from livestock cause global warming, (it doesn’t), then eliminating meat consumption just redirects the CO2 from the animals to the feed; grass, sorgum, etc to lay fallow, rot at the end of each year and produce the exact same amount of CO2 through a different process of digestion. If eliminating CO2 is the goal, then all of the pastures must be eliminated, doused with Round-Up and planted with rocks or asphalt. There is no logic in this. It is pure lunacy.
OT Story Tip: Starting June 12, the nation’s first-ever constitutional climate case, Held v. Montana, will commence with a trial at the Lewis and Clark courthouse.
The 16 Montana youthful plaintiffs will claim that the state of Montana is violating their constitutional right to a “clean and healthful environment.”
Really? – Montana is responsible for emissions coming from China, India, etc?🤪
If CO2 was a threat to “clean and healthful environment” would that justify rounding up undesirables and loading them up in boxcars to execute the Final Solution to CO2 and supposed other human effects?
That’s where the greens will eventually take things – they care more about the environment than any human need, so green genocides to come.
“The main part of this case has now been thrown out, and what’s left of the case should also be dismissed,” said Emily Flower, a spokesperson for Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen. “This entire case has been nothing more than a publicity stunt spearheaded by an out-of-state special interest group. We believe this political theater will come to an end soon.”
Won’t end well. Three reasons:
I bet the lawyers working on these kids behalf are charging their gullible rich parents by the hour rather than on a contingency fee basis.
Montana rewrote the state constitution in 1972, it’s the states not
federal constitution. A quick google shows the legal team for these kids
is The Western Environmental Law Center, McGarvey Law, & Our Children’s Trust,
and have said no financial charges to plaintiffs in this case.
Kathy Seeley is the judge. The plaintiffs are going after
the entire fossil fuel regulation policy not monetary judgement, Helena has
a bunch of enviro lawyers. This is part of the Biden radical enviros. Keep an
eye on this..hope is get thrown out.
Nothing in the links from the German the DGE (whatever that stands for) about which emissions, how much, and what source (Cows or Pigs) the emissions exactly are. Just a vague reference about “…the CO2 balance of the food… and goes on to say nothing about what that exactly is. One of the headlines says, “Mensa only serves vegan-vegetarian dishes” So much for Mensa as an organization of smart people. Maybe the “S” in Mensa stands for “Stupid”
Mensa is not unlike the Nobel Peace Prize, Pulitzer Prize and other awards and memberships that actually used to mean something and partaking of which was a great honor. Now they only signify stupidity, lies, ignorance and the very opposite of what they purport to stand for. Mensa has become Densa!
I think Mensa is German for (student) canteen.
It’s called “capture”. There is a lot of it about. I have no idea how it occurs. I used to think it was just interns running amok using official-looking email addresses while the grown-ups were distracted by something important. But capture by various special-interests seems way more embedded than I’d guessed and it’s getting worrying.
I was a member of Mensa in the 70s and went to many meetings to meet like-minded people.
Of course, back in those days, the meetings were in the pub.
I did manage to play hide the sausage with several like-minded mensaettes 😉
Remember when … we went for the low-hanging fruit first? Tried to get the most bang for the buck?
Why all the emphasis on things that have marginal impact on emissions? (Let’s momentarily pretend GHG emission are really a problem.) What impact will this have? Diddly! And when meat is rationed and atmospheric GHG levels keep rising and the adjusted computer models continue to show warming, what’s next?
This just reinforces what I’ve been saying all along — It’s not about the climate, it’s not about green house gases, or emissions or carbon pollution — it’s about controlling our lives and forcing changes that people would not ordinarily agree on.
Precisely. No sausage? No problem! Here is your imitation meat made from powdered crickets! Pass the mustard!
Apart from the GHGE, OzoneHoles & GlobalGreening, **nothing** could be more wrong
BNC#5: “By evolution or creation, humans were designed to eat fat and protein” – Prof. Tim Noakes
Exactly, Pete, the only real issue these days is we do eat too much fat, sugar and salt, especially in processed and super-processed foods
Long live the steak!
(Well at least as long as it takes to reach my belly)
We don’t eat too much fat. We eat too many starches and sugars.
Things have taken a much darker turn lately in the realm of free speech too. Won’t be long before you will be imprisoned or exiled for not towing the party line. Yikes
The world’s governments are turning the population into mindless sheeple. It’s easy to see how the Nazi party (insert any tyrannical government here) was able to get the population to fall in line.
They are in the process of turning freedom of speech on its head with disinformation and hate speech claims. I would not be surprised to find out that some countries are blocking this website due to its noncompliance with the (fake) AGW ‘science’.
We will be needing mobile pirate radio stations before long. The new iron curtain is a electronic drape or something like that.
Parties only exist because, bizarrely, people want them to. Don’t vote for them and they will melt like snow in hell.
Well, if they insist. I guess I can manage…
Given that ‘climate goals’ achieve nothing whatsoever, what’s the point? Pass the mustard
We are now at peak climate insanity.
We may never have been more insane but I’ll be pleased and astonished if we’ve reached peak!
Hopefully.
This assumes that eating meat has no benefits to human beings….a very dubious assumption.
If you remove meat from your diet you have to replace it like for like with something else. Have the experts done the ‘environmental audit’ on those alternatives, have they added up the medical costs incurred?
I doubt it, they are just being obedient wordsmiths.
Germany wants to cuts meat consumption. China, India, Indonesia and the rest of Asia increase coal consumption to provide power to improve the lives of their peoples.
Which is making the better choice?
And for my next trick, I’ll be patting myself on the back for my climate mitigation policies, when the western world is impoverished and global temperatures don’t hit the magic 1.5ºC catastrophic warming threshold. Which of course used to be 2ºC, but that was a rapidly diminishing possibility, so without any reason I just changed it.
Yours faithfully,
Every green in the world.
As soon as someone states: “It’s a scientific fact” or similar, my bullshit detector goes far into the red.
If its a recommendation then its no problem you can just ignore it. But if it’s enacted into law that’s a big problem. That’s a totalitarian government. Welcome to 1984.
Back to the future
First coercion then compulsion. Its a process.
Those “soy boys” are trying to take away our best source of nutrients and protein and make us eat food that wants to kill us. Human stomachs can’t digest fiber, and most plants contain carcinogens, poisons and irritants.
But fiber feels better coming out than going in
Hollywood to the rescue…
“”A star-studded lineup will come out to support the planet at this month’s Hollywood Climate Summit, with Quinta Brunson and Stephanie Hsu among the new speakers set to join previously announced participants Jane Fonda and Daniels (Kwan and Scheinert).””
https://apple.news/APj4L7mbJQwOmRIsUICQ8hg
Who? The only name in that list I immediately recognise is Hanoi Jane. Where are the stars to be studded?
Whatever the recommendation is do the exact opposite, so buy so eat more sausage. It’s great cooked over an wood open fire.
“Place the lives of children in their formative years, despite the convictions of their parents, under the intimate control of experts appointed by the state, force them to attend schools where the higher aspirations of humanity are crushed out, and where the mind is filled with the materialism of the day, and it is difficult to see how even the remnants of liberty can subsist.”
― J. Gresham Machen, Christianity and Liberalism (not political liberalism, rather Liberal theology or what was known at the time as “Modernist Christianity”) (1923)
We’re already there – Population Matters/The Optimum Trust/Club of Roome
Germany just closed their last remaining nuclear power plants.
Says it all really.
My favorite Green policy is the advocacy for banning air conditioners to combat global warming. Mitigation be damned!
Oi! Hans!
Send all those lovely German sausages my way, please.
The wurst diet for global warming…
Five hundred grams a week is a little over 1.1 pounds, or an average of about 2.5 ounces of meat per day, or about the size of a “regular” hamburger at a fast-food restaurant (not even a “quarter pounder”). No cold cuts on your lunchtime sandwiches. We’re going to have a lot of skinny Germans in a few years!
Has anybody compared the CO2 emissions to make a kilo of beef, or pork, or chicken?
Unlikely. The starches that will undoubtedly be substituted for the meat forceably removed from their diets will be metabolized into sugar and stored as fat.
As an American traveling in Northern Europe around 2000, I was immediately aware “something is different”. British and Germans were all so thin and healthy. Swedes were crazy. We were all engineers sitting through sedentary careers, but the Swedes looked like Olympic athletes. Must have been their insanely caffeinated coffee.
Yes but there will be no limit on mealworms, maggots and other delectables. They will still be allowed sausage but just not as we know them.
They have, actually. The SI of the Ivanovich et al paper discussed in late April has CO2, CH4 and N2O figures for quite a few foods.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01605-8
From the SI:
beef produces 1.2kg CH4/kg
mutton produces 0.55kg CH4/kg
pig meat produces 0.083 kg CH4/kg
poultry produces 0.014 kg CH4/kg
rice produces 0.11 kg CH4/kg
Thge obvious solution is to switch from beef to mutton, poultry and pork (I haven’t received confirmation of my Nobel Prize, yet), which should keep the German sausage lovers happy.
I wonder if it’s possible to conduct an honest survey in any country to find how many people are actually taking individual extensive measures to combat climate change. I’d bet the number would be so minuscule, it would be embarrassing.
This is one of my ‘fool for a moment’ moments.
I have yet even to discover, let alone understand, what the scientific rationale for this bizarre notion that animal-farming is bad for the climate is supposed to be. Could somebody kindly enlighten me, please?
There appear to be a number of disjoint partly formed nebulous ideas which occasionally coalesce.
There are sure to be more, but my brain already hurts.
I changed tenants on our farm some years back. The new guy grows alfalfa for cows on land that was wheat and soybeans mostly. What a great idea. We have done quite well and one thing stands out. We have less government “help” with our farming. People forget about the millions of buffalo that grazed these farms before.
Dryland or irrigated alfalfa?
If it had been growing soybeans, it was either irrigated or you get a lot of rain.
The alfalfa should build up soil nitrogen and improve the structure as well. Legume rotations are great.
You said he grows alfalfa for cows. Is he grazing them directly, or cutting it for hay? It pays better growing it for hay here.
Most livestock production involves replacing one species by another, with the carrying capacity remaining largely unchanged. Growing crops actually reduces the overall carrying capacity, so there may be less enteric methane emissions from the Great Plains now than in the early 1800s.
Thanks, OC. That was my impression too – the idea is basically ludicrous!
It certainly doesn’t seem to have been fully thought through whilr taking all factors into account.
It’s wurst than we thought…
…I’ll get my coat.
“Less meat consumption = better climate” must rank as one of the most self-evidently stupid remarks ever made. Most people have enough common sense to allow them to resist this nonsense.
The German Nutrition Society needs to be shut down today, they are liars and cheats. We need names so we can go after these guys, they are dangerous.
They’re only dangerous if we let them be.
Story Tip:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-65633082
“Climate change is harming my mental health”
About several young people that have gone off the rails.
Whew! Feel sorry? Laugh? Upchuck!
This constant war against farmed animals is almost as big a scam as Global Warming Climate change .
As I have explained here many times enteric methane is not a threat to any one as not ONE additional atom of carbon or molecule containing carbon is added to the atmosphere over any 10 year time span .
Why do these idiots keep on with this nonsense ? All fodder eaten by farmed livestock has absorbed CO2 from the air to grow .
The very small amount of methane that is emitted during digestion breaks down in the upper atmosphere into CO2 and water vapour .
The methode microbes in the animals paunch digest the cellulose then multiply rapidly to pass through the other stomachs and are absorbed as the animals food.
Continuously grazed pastures are carbon sinks as the animals dung is broken down and mixed into the soil by worms and dung beetles .
The soil under permanent pastures can be measured for carbon content which keeps increasing untill the land is cultivated when carbon breaks down and some CO2 is emitted .
Next these idiots will be campaigning against potatoes and wheat and rice .
Staple foods for most of the world .
Rice paddies are a constant source of methane but they still do not add any additional carbon into the atmosphere .
Why are these people so ignorant ? When I showed a select committee hearing on climate change in New Zealand that atmospheric methane levels were stable for ten years from 1999 untill 2008 .They took no notice because they need the threat of climate change to change the world to socialism that they think will be a better place when we are all poor except for our glorious leaders .
Where was the problem with methane at 1.8 parts per million in the atmosphere for ten years .That proves that farmed livestock pose NO risk to warming the earth .Over those 10 years world coal production was also stable at 4.7 billion tonnes ,no problem there .
Methane levels went up as Asian countries ramped up there coal use which has now exceeded 8 billion tonnes twice sine 2010.
Methane level have increased with the increase in coal use but it will never become a problem because water vapour is at 20,000 parts per million completly over powers any effect that methane could have at 1.9 parts per million.
People who believe that farmed livestock are a problem should stop eating meat and milk products ,also all arable and root crops and rice.
That leaves very little except fish which is limited and some gunk fermented in vats .
People pushing this nonsense are absolutely insane and I could guarantee that 99% of them have never grown any food in their life.
So, in effect, animals eating plants and then us eating those animals is simply a re-cycling of CO2 that already existed previously. How neat!
So according to some Germans malnutrition is good, starvation is good, and famine is good. Didn’t some Germans impose this on others about 85 years ago?
Farmers need to organize to protect their liberty and our food supply and people in general, need to become more involved with growing and producing their own food or at least partnering with farmers.
Um a few words to these pukes…EFF OFF LOSERS!
I’m off to Germany for a two-week holiday. I plan to eat lots of Wurst and Schnitzels. I also expect to see lots of Germans doing the same.
The next thing they’ll be after the beer. Beer is produced from barley and wheat and no doubt fertilisers are used to grow them. Coming soon: You are only allowed one beer a month
I grew up in Bavaria. Wurst is highly cultural. Now, add beer. To ferment the barley makes lots of CO2. Remember the foam, being the remnant after fermentation. Now you have the two most culturally impacted foods in Bavaria. The uprising is certain!