Bloomberg News: Eat Less Meat Is Message for Rich World in Food’s First Net Zero Plan: UN’s FAO is set to publish plan for food’s climate transition – Food expected to take more focus at COP28 summit in Dubai –The global food systems’ road map to 1.5C is expected to be published by the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization during the COP28 summit next month. Nations that over-consume meat will be advised to limit their intake, while developing countries — where under-consumption of meat adds to a prevalent nutrition challenge — will need to improve their livestock farming, according to the FAO. The average American consumes about 127 kilograms of meat a year…The Eat-Lancet Commission recommends people consume no more than 15.7 kilograms of meat a year.
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UK Guardian: “Meat and dairy, must be reined back from its continued growth around the world, if targets to halve emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050 are to be met.” …Jennifer Larbie, the head of UK advocacy and campaigns at Christian Aid: “The emissions from farming is a huge driver of the climate crisis and one which needs to be tackled at Cop28 if we are to keep global heating in check.”
Newsweek: Bugs Instead of Turkey? Why Insects Make a Perfect Thanksgiving Dish and How to Cook Them
About 80 percent of the world already eats insects, which are a fantastic source of protein. As Americans prepare for this year’s Thanksgiving meal, perhaps it’s time to consider the many merits of a bugcentric holiday feast. Insects are a food source in many places in the world for good
The world’s most-developed nations will be told to curb their excessive appetite for meat in new plan for food’s climate transition https://t.co/CEsA8gHpZW
— Bloomberg Green (@climate) November 26, 2023
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COP 28 UN climate summit planning Great Food Reset for USA!
COP 28 UN climate summit planning Great Food Reset for USA!
“The average American consumes about 127 kilograms of meat a year…The Eat-Lancet Commission recommends people consume no more than 15.7 kilograms of meat a year.” https://t.co/1Nb7MaJ0o7 pic.twitter.com/tMOb42mewe
— Marc Morano (@ClimateDepot) November 27, 2023
Bloomberg News: Eat Less Meat Is Message for Rich World in Food’s First Net Zero Plan: UN’s FAO is set to publish plan for food’s climate transition – Food expected to take more focus at COP28 summit in Dubai
The world’s most-developed nations will be told to curb their excessive appetite for meat as part of the first comprehensive plan to bring the global agrifood industry into line with the Paris climate agreement.
The global food systems’ road map to 1.5C is expected to be published by the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization during the COP28 summit next month. Nations that over-consume meat will be advised to limit their intake, while developing countries — where under-consumption of meat adds to a prevalent nutrition challenge — will need to improve their livestock farming, according to the FAO.
From farm to fork, food systems account for about a third of global greenhouse gas emissions and much of that footprint is linked to livestock farming — a major source of methane, deforestation and biodiversity loss. Although non-binding, the FAO’s plan is expected to inform policy and investment decisions and give a push to the food industry’s climate transition which has lagged other sectors in commitments.
The guidance on meat is intended to send a clear message to governments. But politicians in richer nations typically shy away from policies aimed at influencing consumer behavior, especially where it involves cutting consumption of everyday items.
“Livestock is politically sensitive, but we need to deal with sensitive issues to solve the problem,” said Dhanush Dinesh, the founder of Clim-Eat, which works to accelerate climate action in food systems. “If we don’t tackle the livestock problem, we are not going to solve climate change. The key problem is overconsumption.”
The average American consumes about 127 kilograms of meat a year compared with 7 kilograms in Nigeria and just 3 kilograms in the Democratic Republic of Congo, according to the FAO data. The Eat-Lancet Commission recommends people consume no more than 15.7 kilograms of meat a year.
Read: Rising Livestock Emissions Undermine World’s Climate Fight
The Rome-based UN agency, tasked with improving the agricultural sector and nutrition, is seeking to strike a balance between the climate transition and ensuring food security for the growing global population. So as well as calling for less meat consumption for the world’s well fed, the plan would also encourage farmers in developing countries to bolster productivity of their livestock and supply more sustainably.
Other recommendations will cover issues from how farmers adapt to an increasingly erratic weather to tackling key sources of emissions like food waste and post-harvest loss or fertilizer use, according to the FAO. The plan will be rolled out in three parts over the next few years to eventually include country-specific recommendations.
according to FAIRR Initiative, an investor network focused on intensive animal production.
“This road map is needed to bring clarity to both companies and investors so that they can plan for the transition,” said Sofía Condés, head of investor outreach at FAIRR. “The longer companies wait to act, the more drastic and potentially disruptive the transition.”
Food’s Carbon Footprint
Global greenhouse gas emissions from food production
The FAO’s work is one of several food-focused announcements and pledges that are expected to come out of the COP28 summit in Dubai. While climate summits have tended to steer away from agrifood issues largely due to sensitivities over food security, this year’s organizers are trying to push through a number of initiatives outside the formal talks, said Clim-Eat’s Dinesh.
“I see more people coming, more events, more activities around food systems,” he said.
The United Arab Emirates have called on governments to sign a declaration committing to include food transformation into their national reduction and adaptation plans. The COP28 summit will have a Food, Agriculture and Water Day on Dec. 10, a first-ever day dedicated to food systems, which encompass anything from how food is grown, processed, distributed, consumed or thrown away. Catering for the summit will be two-thirds plant-based.
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Bloomberg News: Eat Less Meat Is Message for Rich World in Food’s First Net Zero Plan: UN’s FAO is set to publish plan for food’s climate transition – Food expected to take more focus at COP28 summit in Dubai –
The global food systems’ road map to 1.5C is expected to be published by the United Nations’ Food & Agriculture Organization during the COP28 summit next month. Nations that over-consume meat will be advised to limit their intake, while developing countries — where under-consumption of meat adds to a prevalent nutrition challenge — will need to improve their livestock farming, according to the FAO.
The average American consumes about 127 kilograms of meat a year…The Eat-Lancet Commission recommends people consume no more than 15.7 kilograms of meat a year.
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UK Guardian: “Meat and dairy, must be reined back from its continued growth around the world, if targets to halve emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2050 are to be met.” …
Jennifer Larbie, the head of UK advocacy and campaigns at Christian Aid: “The emissions from farming is a huge driver of the climate crisis and one which needs to be tackled at Cop28 if we are to keep global heating in check.”
Newsweek: Bugs Instead of Turkey? Why Insects Make a Perfect Thanksgiving Dish and How to Cook Them
About 80 percent of the world already eats insects, which are a fantastic source of protein. As Americans prepare for this year’s Thanksgiving meal, perhaps it’s time to consider the many merits of a bugcentric holiday feast. Insects are a food source in many places in the world for good
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There is absolutely no way I will eat the bugs. I will grow my own cows first. These people are insane.
Ze bug pushers need to eat zom lead.
So why aren’t bugs being served at COP 28? They want everyone else to eat them, surely they should lead by example….
It’s only fair.🙃
Don’t you mean “fare”?
No I mean equal for all. If they want us to eat the bugs so they should do the same.
Yeah … earthworm quiche would be a popular selection … along with bumblebee pie .. topped with cricket sauce
But aren’t bees dieing off?
Not really. There was a resurgence of a bacteria or spore that was particularly nasty for bees some years ago but they seem to be recovering well. Bee populations go through large swings because bees are susceptible to several different diseases and fungal infections which can go through a hive rapidly. They do have numbers and a high reproduction rate on their side, fortunately.
Banana slug cream pie is the go-to dessert selection; especially if the slugs are still living!
The SF PBS station, KQED, did a write up in their monthly newsletter/schedule about the Slug Fest in Guerneville that included a write up about that in the recipe contest that was rolling-on-the-floor hilarious. Sadly, I didn’t save it, and I’m not sure where to look for it. It might be well worth the effort for anyone interested!
My wife just made chicken Courdon Bleu. I can’t imagine locust Courdon Bleu. Tough to wrap all those critters in cheese and ham. Oh… I forgot, no ham. How does one slice cockroachs thin for a delicate wrap?
Update…. my wife suggested perhaps bug-on bleu.
You can’t have cheese, either. Cheese is made from milk, which comes from………
How can you have any pudding if you don’t eat your meat?
Certainly Lee, you don’t expect them to lead by example? After all they can afford Wagyu Kobe beef, soon they will make it so the rest of us, the great unwashed, won’t be able to afford ground beef at Costco, Macdonald’s menus will reflect Fuddrucker prices and their chilluns Happy meals (now Sadness meals) will include a live Jiminy Cricket in every box.
Raise chickens and let the chickens eat the bugs. Use your position on the food chain to your advantage. Plenty of squirrels, ground hogs and chipmunks around here, enough to get me through Spring, Summer and Fall.
I have eaten Groundhog many times before and it was very tasty. I read an article on how to clean them in Harrowsmith magazine back in the late 70’s. I ate quite a few during my very poor period during my first year of college. Basically as you are suggesting we will have to go back to the way we used to get our food. Nature will provide.
Nature will provide many human corpses for vultures and worms….
Nature eventually provides every human as a corpse. 🤷♂️
I am a terrible shot though, so if I’m going for varmints I’m going to need a 22-250.
Well, if you’re a bad shot, you don’t need a 22-250, a 22 long rifle will suffice. 😁
Use a shotgun… it adds minerals to your diet.
I have had groundhogs that were only wounded with a 22 long and I am too old and decrepit to dig out another den. A 22-250 has a dead flat trajectory out to 100 yards and if the bullet touches the groundhog it is dead by hydrostatic shock. I prefer that no one suffers, neither me or the groundhog. I’m also way out of practice, it’s been a long time.😓
I had to look up “hydrostatic shock”, and was shocked to see that Wikipedia thought it was a “controversial” subject! I thought it was going to be some anti-gun shite, but turns out it’s more fast-small cal vs slow and heavy.
Unsurprisingly, some bad science turns up – just like in climate science – with a Vietnam era doctor poo-pooing the evidence for hydrostatic shock that was mostly compiled during WWII, but of course when his evidence was double checked, it was actually pro-hydrostatic shock, not against.
Looks like “publish or perish” has infected many fields besides Climate.
If you had seen result of a nick or bullet crease on the little critters you would have no doubt. As I say I don’t want any animal to suffer.
Maybe they’ll start with the FDA increasing the amount of insect parts and whole bugs allowed in cereal, peanut butter, pasta, chocolate and a host of other packaged foods. If you like to eat suggest not looking up just what the limits are and what’s allowed besides insects. At least with a nice thick New York strip stake I’m pretty sure there’s no mouse poop or rodent hairs.
I used to work at a canning factory in my youth. They already have those regulations but it still allows quite a few bugs and other items. Took me a long time before I ate canned food again. Still can’t eat ketchup.
That ‘stake’ is made of wood.
You could just rinse it before you cook it. My wife hates the feel of raw meat and the smell, so she always washes it – makes a huge load of sense.
Apparently termites produce about 30% more CO2 than humans do… seems like the solution is obvious… feed the termites to the COP fatcats and we all get to keep our civilization as we know it.
Do chickens like termites?
Yes
Chickens love bugs when free outside. Worms are a particular favourite. They scratch with their claws at the grass, and catch the lot. They love green grass too, makes very yellow yolks!
Let the buggy eat the bugs and the glow of their self-righteousness keep them warm.
Meanwhile….
story tip
China Boosts Coal and Gas Consumption as Power Demand Nears Record High (yahoo.com)
“During the first half of this year, coal production, coal imports, and coal-fired electricity generation surged and offset a significant decline in power output at China’s massive hydropower capacity due to insufficient rainfall and drought.”
Can’t even rely on “renewable” hydro power!
the climate crazy isn’t coming from Russia or China, it’s coming from the West. The old communist systems were pragmatic. They’re burnt out on dumb ideology and systemic lies. It’s only their systematic lies they care about. They see the Climate Crazy for what it is…a power/money grab by people who do not have their interests in mind. They know better than to bow to the Davos folk, Big Woke Tech, the UN or any other pseudo-governing body.
The Russians are very sensitive to eugenic undergirded movements… not sure why Europe and America have forgotten the lessons of WWII.
Thanks for reminding me that I need to go out and get a chuck roast for my smoker.
I just bought a smoker. I’m having a lot of fun making some very tasty meat.
Don’t forget a crock pot as well. They make great beef stew, and excellent pulled pork which is much cheaper than beef these days.
and with only 77% of the CO2 and 7% of the CH4 emissions 🙂
Of course, poultry CH4 emissions are around 1% of beef.
The Supplementary Data of Ivanovich (2023) is wonderful for the inevitable “don’t eat meat” exhortations.
Thank you for that! I can tell the Climate Moonies to stuff their bugs where the sun don’t shine, and munch down on climate friendly popcorn chicken.
No replies or comments impinging the climate sanctity of chicken nuggets will be tolerated.
For reference, the paper is https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-023-01605-8#data-availability
The link to the SD is in the Supplementary Information section.
Some relevant Feed Conversion Ratios are in https://www.navfarm.com/blog/fcr-guide/
Interestingly, poultry has a slightly better FCR than crickets 🙂
This makes the focus on eating insects particularly perplexing.
You will give Greta Scoldylocks nightmares: Methane from rearing the meat and then adding CO2 from the Smoker 🤡
😱 Here I was thinking that the wood pellets were Carbon neutral😱
😉
That’s how our Transportation Secretary does it.
I have a Traeger with Wifi. Works great.
My son bought the Cuisinart, it has wifi as well but I have no phone.😞
My brother in law gave me several beef tongues left unwanted in his freezer. They were great after pickling.
Maybe most people who eat bugs have little other choice.
Me, I’ll take my fresh ground chuck burger I grilled last night. Medium rare, toasted bun, American cheese with a side of baked beans.
I was with you as far as the toasted bun; after that, it all went downhill…
Many cheeses are made in America. But, yes, if Tom is using imitation substandard yellow-dyed flabby stuff, then he needs an intervention. 🙂
No, I use real cheese not “cheese food” or “processed cheese” or any oil based crap.
One pound ground beef, one pound grubs and mixed cricket parts and you have a very nutritious meatloaf going there.
How about just two pounds of ground chuck.
Look at Soylent’s name again and take away the downvotes, he was obviously kidding 😂
Not the beans, can’t stand ’em, I’d maybe go with some coleslaw instead.
Must have beans. I like music with my meal.
Shades of Blazing Saddles😉🤣🤣
Forcing the peons to subsist on gruel seems normal for the Green Blob.
Yes ….
message to UN : FOOD !
F Off Or Die
😉
If they try that they’ll be seeing lots of pitchforks.
Which is why they favor civilian disarmament.
Check this out. Urban dwellers beware.
https://rumble.com/v3y7itr-net-zer-is-communism-15-minute-cities.html
C4 cities
Global Covenant Mayors
And torches.
Where did you find that old picture of me?
Get your hands off my cheese!
Cheeseburger please.
Bugburger, no thanks.
Regards,
Bob
Hmmm… I’m curious what delicious dishes will be served at COP28?
Cricket bread? Filet of Grasshopper? Cream of cockroach soup? Mealworm Parmesan?
Oh wait… that’s for us, the little people. I’m sure there will be plenty of animal protein served on those private jets.
Thanks for the laugh, scadsobees!! Mealworm Parmesan? Mmmm, mmmmm, mmmmm.
Regards,
Bob
maggot stew?
uh.. in the ’70s I had a temp job as a foreman on a forestry “works project”. Most of the crew were some rough characters- some right out of prison. Several were members of the local motorcycle club, which later joined Hells Angels. One of them told me that when he was being initiated into the club, he had to prove just how bad ass he is- so, on the porch of the club, he noticed the garbage can- he reached in and found some maggots. He then stuffed his mouth with them and chowed down. That was an interesting year or two.
Sorry about that last one, Parmesan, it doesn’t work as they’re also trying to eliminate dairy.
I think the pre COP28 press releases will make the daily menus for the attendees (all 70,000 of them) a news item.
And if they don’t, here’s hoping that somebody will record the video of People For the Ethical Treatment of Animals protesting the COP28 diners in their leather jackets / mink coats as they try to eat their steak / veal dinners.
PETA is strict, and demands equal rights for bugs. So cockroach soup is equally improper.
Plants have feelings too. The only moral choice for food is rocks and dirt.
“Do you know how lucky you are to even have cereal? Why, when I was your age we ate nothing but dirt and rocks!”
-Ren Hoek
Presumably a lot of those 70,000 will do nothing but be in the queue for food for a fortnight. 🙂
We’d all be better off if they all did nothing.
Mice Cream , Coq au roach , ratatouille, and kitten tikka masala are on the menu
Ugh!! I don’t eat much meat, but if bugs are on the menu, I just won’t eat.
There may come a time…
So we’re not being exhorted to “Eat The Rich” any more?
Self- preservation policy from the WEF?
Never had a taste for long pork, but if the WEF keeps this up I may have to get one.
Be leery if someone invites you over for their Donner party.
Well we are in a strange land. Getting stranger every day.
If there are no cows and pigs, gotta get meat somehow.
The only food offered at this event should be insects!
My feelings exactly. They should all lead by example.
How much methane is emanating from the COP28 garbage science?
The 80% bug eating figure doesn’t explain WHY so many people turn to bugs for nourishment. Most do so because they have little other choice. For eons humans have eaten bugs as a stopgap against starvation. It isn’t surprising that poor people would eat them (along with rats, lizards, snakes and other small creatures that many would find most unappetizing).
But why resort to a poverty stricken diet when you have food available? The other thing to note is that many of these bug-eating countries also have short average lifespans and very little in the way of healthcare.
Also, I don’t know anyone who eats 127Kg (or more) of meat each year! I’d be dubious of that stat…..My husband and I both *might* eat that much put together, but not individually. It’s just another way to try and shame western countries where people have a higher standard of living.
That said, I do enjoy eating arthropods – but only the aquatic kind. Crab, lobster, crayfish, shrimp….I could live happily on those!
You have to keep in mind that if you eat canned and other prepared foods there will be bugs mixed in to these foods. Admittedly a small percentage but it is still there. I worked at a canning factory in my younger years. Took me a long time before I ate canned food again.
But that is less than 1/3 pound per day – typical meat serving is 1/4 to 1/2 pound.
For the two of us, I buy about 350lb meat per year. Of course this includes feeding guests and my son off and on.
I ate insects and grubs as part of my USAF SERE training. You’d be surprised what you will eat when you’re hungry. Peer pressure works wonders, too, for the reluctant. I recall one guy who pretended to eat an ant. He planned to spit it out when nobody was looking but the ant bit his tongue first.
Anyhoo, I don’t plan to voluntarily eat that way again. Looking for the best cut of ribeye at the butcher shop is my idea of foraging for food. Then again, Bidenomics has decimated my retirement savings (not true, decimate means to reduce only by 10%) and I might end up scouring the woods for bugs and fighting off the turkey vultures and crows for fresh roadkill. There’s always the free sample trays at Costco, so maybe I’ll be OK.
Nothing could be more wrong.
Pursuing such a course will destroy all of life on Earth.
You know why, soil erosion occasioning katabatic heating.
It’s happening already – THAT is what the Sputniks and thermometers are seeing.
The ONLY real solution is a system of food production that involves perennial plants and the only way to do that is via livestock/animals.
Chuck has the right percentage of fat to make it tasty and juicy.
Fat is an important part of your diet. Don’t believe all that 70s crap about fat being bad for you – it was the easy carbs that were doing the damage all along.
The whole ‘less beef and dairy’ thing is complete scientific nonsense.
True, ruminants produce methane.
False, methane is a GHG in the real world with about 2% specific humidity on average. The methane IR absorption bands are almost completely overlapped by much more abundant water vapor absorption bands.
It’s worse than that, Rud!
It is anti-human, as Homo species did not evolve the large brains we now possess until early hominids became more carnivorous! High amounts of essential fatty and amino acids are necessary for proper development and functioning of our brains, and the necessary amounts are difficult to get from non-animal sources! Whether insects provide the necessary nutrients is a question that no has answered as far as I know; and a lack seems to be linked with increased dementia and impaired brain function! They want the peasant docile and stupid, and meat seems to be detrimental to that goal!
And the methane oxidizes relatively quickly and never gets to contribute the inflated amount of IR absorption attributed to it by grant seeking climate pseudo-scientists.
I’ll bet all the people attending climate conference won’t stick to being vegan or eating bugs , it’ll be Lobster Thermidor or Wagu beef fillet steak
Now, now, that would be hypocritical of them.
WUWT covered the “sacrifices” the UNFCCC delegates had to make last year for COP27 in this linked article …
… it was only “Angus beef [ medallions ? ] and sea bass” they were reduced to eating, nothing as luxurious as “Lobster Thermidor or Wagu beef fillet steak” …
“Whoever controls the food supply controls the people; whoever controls the energy controls whole continents; and whoever controls the money can control the world.”
Henry Kissinger (Slightly Paraphrased)
There are likely fewer cows in North America now than there were bison when Columbus discovered America. So no worries…
Estimates are 100 million bison roamed what is now the US before European settlers. Now there are an estimated 94.4 million cattle and 0,5 million bison. And while there are many differences between cattle and bison, bison are notorious for producing a lot of methane. WRT GHG and cattle/bison, the US is at least carbon neural.
I believe that Renfield was a bug eater.
What are the odds that there is no meat, only bugs, on the menu for all of those who attend COP28.
There’ll be seafood and lamb. I think they’ll want to avoid desert locusts.
Story Tip: Jet-Powered Hypocrisy: Richest 1% of Global Elites Emit as Much Carbon as Bottom Two-Thirds
https://www.breitbart.com/europe/2023/11/20/jet-powered-hypocrisy-richest-1-of-global-elites-emit-as-much-carbon-as-bottom-two-thirds/
Private jets and wagyu beef for me, crickets and grubs for thee.
#storytip
Where is the documentation that compares the “green house” effect of a unit-mass of insects and a unit-mass of beef/pork/chicken?
How does one raise, harvest, and process 1,000,000 truck-loads of bug protein without similar outputs to the others? Where will the bugs be grown and what will they be fed? How do they get into London, Paris, or NYC?
I suspect I am slightly above the American average of 127 k/year of meat, so I won’t be doing much to counteract this nonsense. Stir-fry chicken for tonight! 🙂
How many kilos of bugs must one eat to get the equivalent nutrition of 127k of real meat?
That is one of those things I never need to know. Though I am curious.
There are a number of carnivore species I believe are severely endangered that would greatly benefit from being fed COP28 attendees. Seems a small price to pay to improve biodiversity.
There is always Soylent Green.
No. I’ll forego that and let the carnivores feast instead. Every living thing feels pain (yes, surprisingly, even plants) and I’m ok with that if I am to survive but I draw the line at eating something I can have a two-way conversation with.
Eating bugs to fight the “climate crisis” …
I can’t find any definition based on facts, indicators and observations of what’s a “climate crisis” and thus how we know we are in and how we know we may solve it.