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.
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!