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The True Animal Protein Price (TAPP) Coalition gave comments at the 2024 U.N. Climate Change (COP29) Conference Monday urging countries to begin taxing meat.
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) issued a report Friday weighing the pros and cons of a tax on certain foods, including meat. TAPP Coalition raised the topic at COP29 this week, suggesting that countries should tax meat and subsidize vegetables while describing the U.S. and some Western nations as a “laggard” relative to other U.N. countries when it comes to its food pricing policies. (RELATED: Wagyu Burgers, Asian-French Fusion And More: Here’s What’s On The Menu At The UN Climate Confab)
“We believe that COP29 and UNFCCC [United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change] conferences thereafter can only be successful if the closing statement includes transitioning away from animal protein overconsumption according to national or global dietary guidelines by implementing greenhouse gas emission pricing mechanisms in agri-food systems,” Willem Branten, public affairs and policy officer at TAPP, said at the conference this week. “We urge the EU Commission, the OECD and China to lead the way towards these harmonized pricing mechanisms.”
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TAPP also urged member countries to subsidize vegetables and provided an “update” on the “UN Member State frontrunners and laggards of food pricing climate policies,” accusing the U.S., Australia, Canada and the UK of falling behind in their efforts to implement “dietary shifts,” while lauding Switzerland, Denmark and the EU Commission for their efforts.
COP29 kicked off Monday in Baku, Azerbaijan — a Caucasian petrostate that nonprofit Amnesty International accused of violating international humanitarian law by implementing a blockade in 2022 that created food shortages in Armenia. A study published in the journal Communications Earth and Environment discovered an increase in private jet usage associated with U.N. climate summits like COP.
President Joe Biden decided not to attend the event this year, instead sending a delegation of senior energy officials such as White House adviser John Podesta and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm in his stead. Afghanistan, meanwhile, has sent representatives to the event for the first time since the Taliban returned to power in 2021.
TAPP did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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Before agriculture the majority portion of human diets was from animal products. That is the way we are designed.
Overconsumption is prevented by the fact that animal protein soon satisfies appetites.
we are fatter today through eating too little animal protein as a proportion of modern diets.
As always, ideologues promote the opposite of truth.
We are also heavier from an increase in leisure time that modernization provides and promotes and a decrease in work required to gather food.
I have an intuition that central-heating also reduces our food energy expenditure. When I was a kid in the UK in the 1970s there were fewer people “living with overweight” (very fat) and very few people had central heating. It’s just a conjecture. I don’t claim there is any science here.
There was a lot more exercise taken by a lot more adults in those days. I well remember seeing plenty of adults in full time employment arrive at the tennis club soon after 6pm to play matches midweek, playing three rounds of competitive doubles before dark. That would have been very hard leaving work after 5.30pm. Back in those days, an 8 hr working day was much more common and that left time to take exercise, spend time with the children and still get to bed at a sensible hour.
Born before streaming tv. Three rounds of tennis or people with fun accents baking cakes competitively?
The assertion that reduction in exercise is responsible, does not stand up.
I strongly suggest that you look elsewhere. Perhaps at the fact that sugar intakes 200 years ago, were the same per year as the average American now eats per week. All I know is that low-carb diets are proving incredibly successful in reducing weight, even in those who are too obese to exercise.
Purely a personal anecdote, but after changing from Pepsi (about a full 2-liter bottle/day) to water, and changing nothing else, I lost 30 lb.
Humans are fully omnivorous and very flexible in the diet. Human digestive system is designed for predominantly fruit and vegetable diet, complemented by animal protein.
Animal protein is essential, but the required/ideal amounts depend on age, sex, occupation etc. Red meet is absolutely required by children. Women, as long as they menstruate, also need red meet for replacement of iron lost with blood. Older people can live on mostly vegetarian diets.
Overconsumption is the result of overconsumption of food of any type, forgive the obvious tautology.
Overeating steaks does not help one keep weight in check.
Evolutionary humans developed in conditions of limited food availability. For millions of years risk to die from hunger far outweighed risk of obesity. We are programmed to eat more food than is necessary to store excess as fat for periods of food shortage. This particularly applies to the most vulnerable parts of population – women, who run huge risks during pregnancy and milk feeding period, as well as to children. Considering that in the past women between puberty and climax were almost constantly pregnant and/or breastfeeding, they developed particular ability to convert any extra bit of food to fat.
Back in the dawn of humanity, surviving winter required bulking up, similar to what bears do before hibernating.
For women, probably yes, but for men – I doubt.
I do not think I have seen any evidence that pre-historic stone age humans put up weight in the warm part of the year, particularly when they were hunting and gathering. Even after advent of cattle domestication and agriculture overconsumption in any part of the year was not a norm for hardworking population. Overconsumption was privilege of priests and other rulers.
The imagery of humans from the earliest ages show us mostly very fit people, be it Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Indians etc. Examples of the opposite are either clearly abnormal or fall in the category of fat “Venuses”.
The claim that the human digestive system is “designed” to eat vegetables, is doubtful.
Firstly, because our gut-structure, proportions and chemistry are most like that of obligate carnivores and carrion-eaters. We lack the multiple-stomachs of ruminants, or the enlarge caecum of hind-gut fermenters. Our stomachs are also amongst the most acidic of the mammals. Persistent-Isotope analysis of prehistoric skeletons persistently shows that our ancestors ate mostly meat.
Secondly, because if you speak to anyone who must use an ileostomy bag, any undigested food seen in that bag after making it through the small intestine, will be vegetable in nature. Similarly, if you speak to the Drs who specialise in colonoscopy and colon function, they will tell you the same thing.
Then there are those people-groups who have traditionally eaten almost nothing but animal products, groups which all the evidence shows as having very few of the metabolic diseases common in most plant-eating societies that are not calorifically constrained.
just because we can eat plants, does not make it a good idea to base our diet on them.
I will eat whatever animal protein I want to eat.
What gives these *ankers the right to tell us what we can eat. !!
I don’t eat vegan, I eat Vegan Animals
Save a tree, eat a beaver.
Back in the early settlers days here in the N. Rockies
there was a group of beaver trappers that saved the
settlement Silver Star from starving one winter. The trappers had a wide
group of different wild game at hand but they mostly ate beaver.
I’ve eaten it a few times and prefer the loin but the tail if prepared correctly is
amazingly delicious but more work than a filet of beaver loin.
I could not tell how much word play BA was intending, but I’m going to steal that work of word art.
There is nothing wrong with the word Bankers. 😉
Or cankers, hankers or tankers
Need to go much further down the alphabet 😉
Indeed. Hard to imagine two bigger zankers than Keir Starmer and Ed Miliband.
It’s part of the left wing disease. I see it with family members. First they tell me ‘You can’t do XXXX’. I make it abundantly clear to the leaders of their political party that firstly I can, secondly it isn’t their business, and thirdly, it is an accurate reflection on their political party that they fill their pews with little busybodies who don’t understand that adult men who want help will ask for it and adult men who they have never helped in any way in 50 years don’t look up to them for advice outside the most mundane things.
Australians sum it up nicely
Fine with me, I’ll just eat the Greens
Those “Greens” are a lot like Clowns (Climate Clowns that is)…they taste Funny.
“Long pork”?
With what kind of sauce/gravy?
Raw
Soylent Greens?
They’d probably give me gas.
They are desperate and haven’t thought this through if a tax is put on meat it will spawn a black market and poaching
The English breakfast is based on the plebs keeping a pig and a few chickens which produced food with very little expense. Acorns might become something that people with gardens gather as free pig food.
Can we use some bureaucrats as pig food?
The English oak might be in for a resurgence
Insert 2nd amendment comment here
Given that Mad Ed wants to cover prime agricultural land with Solar Panels and everything else with wind turbines along with Rachel Thieves plan to make it difficult to hand a farm onto descendents, the rewilding greens want to cover the country in forests and fill it with beaver, wild cattle and boar then growing any food in the UK is going to be difficult.
I will open a company teaching bow and arrow techniques for hunting purposes.
There was a law that you couldn’t hunt the king’s deer. It would probably apply in this case.
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Somewhere there should be a copy of the English “Game Act” of 1671. (Try Duck Duck Go)
Not as bad as some earlier game laws: “… Richard I (r. 1189-1199) under whom taking of deer was punished by blinding and castration.”
Atlatl’s-R-Us
And snares and booby traps
It looks like the current UK government is trying to take the nation back to a cooler, happier time!
Will they be content with the Little Ice Age, the Dark Ages, or Bronze Age; or will they insist on a return to the Stone Age!?
According to Our World in Data, agriculture, forestry and land use “causes” 18.4% of global emissions (not that it matters), with livestock only 5.8%. Agriculture and rice production combined is 5.4%.
0.4% difference leading to banning meat from the table.
https://ourworldindata.org/ghg-emissions-by-sector
That is an excellent fact to have to hand. (Though being pedantic, it is a 0.4 percentage-point difference.)
“Agriculture and rice production combined”
Almost as if the publisher did not consider rice production to be agriculture.
Insert quickly googled definition of agriculture here.
Do these idiots think that anyone is taking them seriously?
John Podesta and Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm do care.
They’re replacements won’t care in the least!
Trump 2024!
JEM – Just Eat Meat.
For some reason this reminds me of the Ayn Rand book: “We the Living.” Rand claimed it was the closest thing to an autobiography that she would write. The story takes place in post-revolutionary Russia. Their rather large house was seized by the government, and the family was relegated to one room in that house. Other tenants had the other rooms. I remember their primary food staple were sunflower seeds. There was not much meat (basically none) in their diet. It’s just what these idiot climate changers want for all of us–sunflower seeds.
I plant sunflowers every year for food. When the squirrels arrive to eat the seeds, I harvest and eat them. Squirrels require no cages, no watering, no feeding and no permits. It’s the perfect free protein and way cheaper and easier than raising chickens.
I don’t like sunflower seeds. I can’t imagine them being my only food source. I don’t understand the squirrel reference. Did you mean, “Look! A squirrel?”
I think he means the sunflowers, along with providing seeds for him to eat, also attract squirrels which he then shoots or traps then eats.
“Free Range” squirrels, no less.
As a carnivore for health purposes, these people are absolutely EVIL to their core. Stephen Wilde’s comments are 100% correct. Humans are obligatory hypercarnivores – we cannot have proper long-term physical and mental health without animal food. We evolved on it, and our very, very recent departure was one of the greatest mistakes we ever made. These misanthropic monsters need to be shredded of every single bit of power and public influence they have, permanently.
Apparently there is a direct link between excess meat consumption and intelligence; why else would many globalist entities want to abolish family farms and strictly control human consumption of the ONE FOOD we most assuredly WERE eating as we evolved, and survived the Holocene Ice Age!?
I’d say that the propensity for vegan or vegetarian diets being associated with an increase in mental problems, and extreme liberal positions, like the hysterical NutZeros or JustStopOleo, is good proof!
If they even manage to stage another of these useless COP thingies next year, there won’t be any representation at all from the US Federal government. Or the next three years thereafter, or perhaps a lot longer than that, we can hope.
The anti-meat idiots don’t convince anybody of anything. All they do is demand control, of all of us. Human beings reduced to programmed robots answering to our betters in COP.
Or reduced to caskets.
I think you should put a tax on political totalitarianism. That would see these green zealots pay 20% more income tax than more tolerant souls that like eating meat.
Christ on a bike.
You tax something more when you want less of it. At least they got that right.
Try growing vegetables on the arctic tundra where reindeer thrive on lichens
Or on pack ice where the only food is fish and seals
Or even on the steep slopes of English uplands, where only sheep and goats are possible to keep.
And just how many plates of insects were served up to the COP 29 attendees?
Rabbits are a high source of protein. Too much isn’t advised. (Look it up.)
Rabbits and other small animals can be raised in a small space.
It’s the lack of fat which causes problems.
Screw the poor. The 7-figure crowd won’t care.
7? Maybe 100 years ago.
“I wasn’t going to attend COP because I was having my pool cleaned, but then I heard about the Baku Bacon and Brisket BBQ. So I hopped on my private jet and headed off to save the planet” – said just about every hypocritical climate cretin who wants to tell the rest of us how to live.
“Shortly after, Azerbaijani forces, with support of the Ottoman Army of Islam led by Nuru Pasha, started their advance on Baku, eventually capturing the city from the loose coalition of …”
No pork on their forks.
Did you see the menu offered to the COP-28 attendees?
Hippocrites.
I pay no attention to today’s nutritionists. I started losing respect for them when my 80 plus year old grandmother complained that some teeny bopper nutritionist was preaching to her about her diet and recommended changes so she could live a long life. For almost all of us the only guidelines we need is don’t eat to much, eat a variety of foods and drink plenty of fluids. And last stop taxing me you money grubbing bottom feeders.
There’s nothing to worry about because these climate alarmist groups are always advocating less air travel, less auto usage, more rapid transit usage, etc. No one paid much attention to these recommendations when they were first made, and they’re likely to be ignoring them entirely now.
These people have a point! It’s much much worse than we thought!!!! This is what NOAA has to say about cow produced atmospheric pollutants:
“This process produces methane as a by-product, which is exhaled by the animal (cow breath). Methane is also produced in smaller quantities by the digestive processes of other animals, including humans, but emissions from these sources are insignificant. Livestock contributions are place between 85-95 Tg (1 Tg = 1 trillion metric tons) each year.”
90 trillion tonnes from 1.5bn* cattle. Each year!!! That is a lot of farting!!
*(1.5bn only if you believe the UN. It’s 1bn from less untrustworthy sources)
NO MEAT FOR YOU.
Hypocrites at the Billionaires Jamboree swarm the meat buffets.
https://redstate.com/rusty-weiss/2024/11/14/watch-after-demanding-meat-tax-activists-at-un-cop29-climate-conference-wont-go-near-vegan-buffet-n2181994