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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The UN is overplaying their hand. Only the hardcore greenies will switch to bugs, and many of them are already joyless, meatless freaks. Most people will never ever eat insects; even die-hard leftists will not submit. While the UN may be able to mask the connection between wind/solar and high energy bills, they will not be able to mask the connection between bugs and CAGW.
This will be a real and direct link to the CAGW movement, and it will not go over well with the vast majority. This will open people eyes to the scam better than anything we could have done. Even better than the link between unusual health problem and the COVID shots.
I’ve eaten garlic bbq’d “Balmain Bugs”… very delicious 🙂
And I’ve eaten escargot on occasion, but I wouldn’t recommend it as a daily diet.
FYI,
“Balmain Bugs” are akin to lobster.
They are a seafood, and very tasty when prepared by a good chef 🙂
https://th.bing.com/th/id/OIP.tBtSOMPNxtCD5ZA4whXrSgHaDm?w=347&h=170&c=7&r=0&o=5&dpr=2&pid=1.7
Can someone get to Marc Morano and suggest that his posting cut & paste stuff repetitively and with little or no context or commentary is tedious and annoying?
I can’t imagine the row upon row of bug houses needed to feed the U.S. Worse, what happen when they escape? Hordes of locusts? And what will they be fed? Dead cows?
Marie Antoinette wannabes:
“Let them eat bugs!”
The UN should be spending all of its efforts on stopping the war in Ukraine, instead of worrying about what people are eating, that’s what the U.N. was set up for.
Yet another excuse being prepared for the time when they have to announce that Net Zero is impossible to achieve!
80% eat bugs? What % eat bugs as their primary source of protein? Probably close to 0%.
As said elsewhere here, feeding 8 billion people on bugs instead of meat would require just as many resources after a massive restructuring of agricultural. Production factories, feed, nutrients, energy and water inputs, Processing, transport, preservation, disease control, pest control, loss prevention, …
These mathematical illiterates who suggest such lunacy don’t know how to operate an abacus, much less a calculator.
Also, land use change represents a major net source of emissions, much due to the liquid biofuel industry converting range, forest and marginal lands to fuel crops. The UN should consider banning production of liquid biofuels. This would lessen or even reverse land use change (making land a net sink rather than source) as well as cut emissions from biofuels production (farming, processing, transport and storage). That alone could make a major dent in the annual rise of atmospheric CO2 concentrations. Hint: it takes fossil fuels to produce and deliver biofuels to market.
127kg of meat per year is around 350g per day….. not all that much !
.. couple of slices of bacon for breakfast, pastrami on rye for lunch, and a spag-bol or small steak or a chicken breast for dinner.
… you would be up near 350g
…a couple slices of bacon? Are you a vegetarian? How about 8 or 9 or so?
Actually, I prefer a continental style breakfast.. 🙂
Croissants and jam etc
Plenty of meat otherwise, though. 🙂
“When is a Protein NOT a Protein” by Peter Ballerstedt gives the lie to the healthyness of diets without animal protein.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VY8YNhEpXw
He considers foods from the point of view of amino acid requirements informed by research on monogastric (ie, like us) farm animal nutrition. Also lots of information about the poorest countries.
I have always wondered about the extent to which lower IQ’s in these countries is due to protein and micronutrient deficiencies. For example, iodination of salt in Michigan in 1924 led to 1/2 standard deviation increase in IQ in WW II recruits born before and after 1924.
https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/portalfiles/portal/13424445/FPW_iodine_2010_feb_26.pdf
I think this is a good idea.
Let’s all give up meat now!
Release all the cows, pigs, chickens, fish etc
With no natural predators in the UK at least, we’ll soon be up to our necks in bullshit
We are already. If Parliament never went into recess we’d all have drowned in it before now!
Of course the 80% claim is based on such things as the widespread use of cochineal as a food dye…
Were Buffalo methane free?
The American Bison and the modern cattle industry do not make an apt comparison. The life cycles are vastly different. You can investigate. It is worth a bit of your time.
And, no, Buffalo are not methane free. I think buffalo-wings are. 🙂
Don’t get distracted by this nonsense it is just one more tactic to control people. The CAGW crowd knows that net zero CO2 emissions is hopeless so they are pushing a different tactic. They know if they try to turn the screws on China things will not end happily for them. We are winning, they are losing.
The Nobel 59 Conference at Gustavus Adolphus College featured insects for dining.
I want to see a list of the menus for the food served at COP 28 as well as whatever’s consumed in off-site hotels and restaurants. . What are the odds that they won’t contain any meats and poultry? About as good as not finding any corporate/private jets on the airfields.
More people on this planet live off goat meat than any other meat. There’s more
pounds of beef produced but more humans live off of goat meat. The reason is they don’t have
electrical power. I learned this from a notable humanitarian doctor who devoted
his life to helping people in places like Africa. If you are in the bush in Africa
and kill a cow most of the meat will spoil, but a goat you can kill, butcher and
have on the fire cooking in little time. It was the same during the homestead days
in the western US. In the early days my family raised cattle but ate goats, the cows
went to market. They were Angora goats, it was before synthetic textiles and
mohair was used for upholstery, carpet and such. I have a pair of batwing chaps
that my dad was very proud of, his dad a homesteader ran aprox 600 head of
angoras for a side cash crop. Our great grandad had a steam engine that was
used for shearing, sawmilling, threshing and other tasks..
I wonder why goats rather than sheep?
Goats are preferential browsers, so handle really arid conditions better.
They also tend more to multiple births than sheep, so that probably comes into it as well.
Also, they are nowhere near as susceptible to fly strike.
and nowhere near as inventive in finding ways to die.
Perhaps I’ve answered my own question.
They’re far more difficult to handle, though, and mutton tastes nicer.
Obviously, they just want us to die early. I’ve noticed that at least a half dozen people who wrote vegan books and other food fad screeds have corked off in their 50s and 60s.
Winston Churchill: I get plenty of exercise acting as pall bearer for my food fascist friends.
…food faddist. Damn auto correct and no edit.
They may as well ask Australians to stop eating Vegemite. (Not going to happen.)
Meat and bugs are both carbon neutral, in that all their carbon atoms come from the atmosphere in the first place, typically via their food. But whereas an insect will typically sequester carbon for no more than a year, and much less if they are being farmed for human consumption, a typical beef steer is 1 1/2 to 2 years old when turned into beef. So beef is more carbon-friendly, ie, it has sequestered carbon from the atmosphere for longer than a typical insect. To save the world from global warming, therefore, it is better to eat beef than bugs.
From grass to animal to human to grass. Where do the animals get carbon?…. grass and the air they breath. The problem with the climate nut-jobs is that we live and breath, procreate and exhale CO2 and emit methane. The happier we are the more we procreate….hamburgers=procreation in their mind. And they want to re-wild the world with Bison who will exhaust more carbon than all the humans combined. But it’s ok because animals are innocent and humans are not. So let them atone for their human culpability by eating innocent bugs and plants and not experience the joys of raising family. It’s a free country, just leave us out of their crazy.
The COP delegates will tell us we should eat less meat to reduce our carbon footprint. They’ll also tell us we should fly less since aircraft emissions are so damaging to the atmosphere. They’ll also preach about adopting greener lifestyles in general. Except the vast majority of consumers, businesses, industries and governments will continue doing whatever suits them from both an economic and convenience standpoint while giving the climate alarmists the horselaugh. End of story.
With the trillions they are spending on CO2, they could develop plants that taste like meat and save us hundreds of trillions of dollars that are needed to keep the earth from warming. Bloomberg’s green energy team estimates $US200 trillion and other estimates go as high as $US300 trillion.
I guess your already eating bugs and not procreating.
The UN is a failed experiment that must be ended. Please name one accomplishment, other than sucking away tax dollars from middle class of western nations towards elitist bureaucrats to piss away on inflated salaries and expensive junkets. The UN has now jumped the shark with Iran leading the human rights council, and wasting time and money on advocating for eating bugs and fighting the climate change boogie man, especially given how dangerous the world has become. Any GOP candidate that commits to pulling the US out of the UN, and removing all funding, will get my vote.
Form a new organization of nations, of friendly, free nations. Iran, Russia, China, NK, you’re not invited. It makes no sense to give power and a platform to your enemies.
I hope someone sneaks out a menu!
The Eat-Lancet Commission
Ah, so that’s what we should be eating instead of meat.
First they came for the fossil fuels, then they came for the animals. What’s next on the list? People? After all, if there were fewer people there would be less need for fossil fuels or animals. So, perhaps, in a few more years we can expect the COP agenda to include limits on reproduction. Some people are already doing it voluntarily. Maybe they will consider making it compulsory. Why else is there such a huge push around the world for abortion and assisted suicide? Where’s it coming from? The same people and organisations which declare there is a climate emergency.