Clearly, the Danish council is shamefully basing nonsensical policy on both climate and dietary pseudoscience.
Posted by Leslie Eastman
In the name of “climate change,” the cultists running the Danish capital are targeting the elderly in their anti-meat crusade.
Copenhagen’s city government recently adopted climate-focused food guidelines that sharply restrict beef servings in public institutions, and this has been interpreted and criticized as limiting nursing home residents to about 80 grams of beef per week for “climate reasons.”
An eco-warrior politician has sparked outrage in Denmark after she defended guidelines limiting residents of government-run nursing homes to just 2.8 ounces of beef a week — which is less than one Big Mac.
Birgitte Kehler Holst of the left-wing green Danish party The Alternative was also accused of saying old people in nursing homes should be “punished” by restricting their meat intake in comments made in a meeting of Copenhagen’s City Council on April 30.
She was speaking against plans to exclude nursing home residents from guidelines in the Danish capital that restrict meals at government-run sites to just 2.8 ounces (80 grams) of beef, lamb, or veal per week.
That is less than the amount of beef in a standard McDonald’s Big Mac, which contains two 1.6-ounce beef patties — for a total of 3.2 ounces.
NEWS: The Socialist Green/Left Alliance ran Copenhagen Council has a climate plan that includes meat reduction
They give elderly care residents just 11.4 grams of beef (pictured) per day to avoid exceeding the weekly limit of 80 grams.
“Our elderly have been the biggest… pic.twitter.com/lqyky0SstK
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) May 5, 2026
This policy is a result of Copenhagen’s municipal Food Strategy (in force since 2020), aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from public meals, including those served to senior citizens.
The city signed the “Cool Food Pledge” and set a goal to reduce the climate impact of public meals by 25% by 2025 compared to 2018, mainly by reducing consumption of ruminant meat such as beef. A mid‑way evaluation (2018–2022) found that greenhouse gas emissions from senior‑meal procurement fell 10–14%, primarily due to a 27–46% reduction in beef purchases in nursing homes and central kitchens.
However, real dietary scientists would know that older adults should consume 1 to 1.2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day (approximately 0.45 to 0.54 grams per pound). This is higher than the general adult recommendation of 0.8 g/kg/day. Experts suggest distributing this intake evenly throughout the day, aiming for 25-30 grams of high-quality protein per meal.
Too little protein can lead to malnutrition.
Eating too little protein can contribute to the progression of sarcopenia and anabolic resistance, as well as malnutrition. This can increase the chance of falling and sustaining a serious injury, which is already a higher riskTrusted Source in older age.
Experts recommend that older adults eat about 1 to 1.2 grams (g) of protein per kilogram of body weight (0.45 to 0.54 g per pound) each day. Depending on how many calories you eat a day, consider eating:
- 23 to 31 ounces (oz)Trusted Source a day of meats, poultry, and eggs
- 8 to 10 oz of seafood daily
- 4 to 5 oz of nuts, seeds, and soy daily
COPENHAGEN CUTS MEAT FOR ELDERLY
Green council caps beef at 80g a week. That’s 11g a day.
Officials say seniors were “CLIMATE SINNERS.”
Critics warn of MALNUTRITION.
Punishing the elderly over climate goals while elites preach? This is INSANE. pic.twitter.com/9167vaPZjs
— Global Dissident (@GlobalDiss) May 6, 2026
“Anabolic resistance” is a condition where aging muscles become less responsive to protein intake. Animal-based proteins, like delicious steak or pork chops, contain higher levels of essential amino acids like leucine, lysine, and methionine, which are particularly effective at stimulating muscle protein synthesis compared to plant proteins.
Bone breaks are particularly dangerous for the elderly. My mother is currently nursing a broken hip. A professor I cherished in graduate school died after breaking one of her major bones.
The high-quality protein in meat contributes to bone density and may protect against cognitive decline by promoting neurotransmitter production and supporting cognitive function.
One study published in the Nutrition & Metabolism journal found that a high-protein diet was effective in reducing body weight and improving body composition in overweight older adults. By incorporating sufficient protein into their meals, aging individuals can support weight management efforts, reduce the risk of obesity-related health issues, and maintain a healthy body composition.
Protein plays a fundamental role in supporting health and well-being as we age. From preserving muscle mass and enhancing bone health to boosting immune function and supporting cognitive health, protein is a vital nutrient for aging individuals. By incorporating adequate protein into your diet through diverse and high-quality sources, you can promote healthy aging and enjoy a better quality of life.
The Copenhagen climate cultists have managed to accomplish something truly remarkable: they have weaponized the green agenda against the elderly residents who built the civilization these eco-warriors now seek to dismantle, one beef patty at a time.
The lesson for Americans watching from across the Atlantic is stark and urgent: when climate cultism is allowed to capture municipal institutions, it doesn’t stop at your gas stove or your car. It will eventually reach the dinner plate of your grandmother in a nursing home.
Clearly, the Danish council is shamefully basing nonsensical policy on both climate and dietary pseudoscience.
Greens hate people in general.
That’s why all the mirrors are broken in their homes. They’re so malevolent that they can’t bear to look at their own reflection. Or perhaps the mirrors shatter themselves in a suicidal impulse at the approach of one of those fanatics, so as not to be tainted by his likeness.
No no, they have MORE mirrors in their homes. So they can see their face piercings and tattoos that they can only see in a mirror (meaning they’re complete narcissists).
And are unaware that humans owe our big brains to eating animal fat. Are the Green Meanies also restricting Denmark’s superb dairy products?
Restrictions on dairy? Yes, huge cutbacks in cheese, butter, yoghurt, animal fats of all kinds. There is to be a large addition of purely plant-based protein. See Table 3 for the full, hideous details.
Providing healthy and climate-friendly public meals to senior citizens: a midway evaluation of a municipality’s food strategy – PMC
They seem to be sucking up to vegans.
Perhaps they’ll develop a small metering device to install between a nursing mother and her baby so they can tax it and/or fine the mother?
(Do vegans even nurse their infants? If they do, why are they so against animal proteins and other animal-based nutrients?)
I asked my daughter that question. Her answer (that she doesn’t agree with) is that the mother ‘consented’ to this. Animals can’t consent to be eaten or have their ‘products’ ingested by humans.
Logically valid at least, but based on a bad premise.
They “consent” by being part of the food chain that has always existed.
Ask her how the baby “consented” to ingesting “animal” proteins and nutrients. Was it doing just what comes naturally? Why can’t adults do the same?
Her answer was that they don’t think that far.
Was the baby even consented to being conceived or born?
Maybe that should be:
Greens hate “other” people in general.
There are elements of all of this that make me wonder if greens hate themselves.
I am old enough to remember that Wendy’s commercial when it was first aired in 1984, and I hear that “Where’s the beef?” line in that actress’s voice.
Oh, and about the climate movement – this is another reason for skeptics of climate alarm to point out the unsoundness of expecting “warming” or ANY trend of climate variables to be perceptibly influenced by human-related emissions, including emissions from ruminant donors of nutritious protein.
The core claim of attribution has been wrong all along on the merits. In 1938, Simpson and Brunt understood why.
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2026/03/15/open-thread-181/#comment-4174555
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If only the allies had known that when they moved to block Stalin’s red army from their initial swing toward Denmark in the late run through Germany in WW2. The Baltic could have been handed off in trade for something else. Maybe it’s not too late to go ahead with it now.
I don’t see how elderly people could have “wrecked the climate.”
A 95-year-old was born in the mid-1930s. People flew far less in the 1960s, phone calls were expensive, not everyone had a television, needless to say the Internet didn’t exist, clothes were patched and mended, and so on. Today’s thirtysomethings who scream at their elders for having “trashed the planet” should take a look at themselves and everything they enjoyed before becoming professional climate crusaders. Their mobile phones, their computers, their flat screens, their game consoles — all things against which I have absolutely nothing, since I myself make extensive use of them (except for video games, which hardly interest me anymore).
And I repeat that there are climate realists who are vegetarian or vegan and refrain from eating meat or animal products out of personal conviction, but those people are, in fact, normal people, insofar as they do not seek to impose their lifestyle on anyone else, much less through rationing and political coercion.
Yes, its entirely typical of the climate cult. The demand is over and over again to do X ‘because climate’ when doing X can have no possible effect on the climate and has no bearing on the supposed causes of the supposed problem.
In this case you also see another typical aspect of these cults – assuming Birgitte Kehler Holst’s remarks are being quoted correctly. That is, they sooner or later invent a villain to be targeted, in this case the old living in public sheltered accommodation. But it can be anyone, the Jews, the khulaks, the bourgoisie, the Social Revolutionaries, the Old Bolsheviks, the Gironde. In Pol Pot’s Cambodia to wear glasses marked one for death as a bourgeois intellectual. In the French and Russian revolutions being part of the wrong faction of the cult itself also marked one for especially venomous persecution.
Have to be careful around these people, They are two steps away from wanting re-education camps in the Arctic.
Time for the Danes to revisit their Viking past.
I’m not paying any Danegeld.
Please please please make this a part of the Dems platform for the midterms and 2028. They can claim its for the children or obesity or trans cattle rights.
Trouble is that a LOT of people actually like Democrat policies…
… because they think they won’t apply to them or affect them in a bad way.
Grabbing food out of their hands will wake them up quickly.
Nah…there’s always bugs!
It takes an awful hard whack to wake up a Democrat voter’s brain. !!
You can see from New York, Los Angeles etc that they will put up with basically anything…… and still keep voting Democrat.
You get a hollow sound when you do whack them.
Dems and liberals and especially progressives do not ever extrapolate out their own fetid and destructive policies. They are rank communists at heart. My sister is deeply into TDS and looking at her, her life hasn’t changed one single bit from the fantasy horrors and so called fascism of DJT. Still living quite well in a lovely house with money to spend. Nice car. Decent retirement money. The only change has been to her brain to the point none of us want to be in her presence, especially alone with her. 2 of her children have been driven away. I required an anxiety pill the last time I was with her alone and that was right before the 2024 election and I refused to talk politics.
Hearing the Leftwing Media constantly demonizing Trump drives some gullible people crazy. Like Rosie O’Donnel.
They don’t think, they feel.
That’s right, they are led by emotion and not rational thought so they can never respond with facts, although to be fair the facts are never on their side.
As someone once said, “A liberal is someone who feels a great debt to their fellow Man and is determined to pay that debt with your money.”
Or because of their irrational hatred for Trump, and by extension, conservatives.
ANY politician of ANY claimed party or philosophy is already somewhere on the spectrum of believing that he/she is smarter than you and you need to do whatever he/she tells you…cuz they all believe in governmental power. The party names mean nothing except pandering to how their voter base’s parents traditionally voted.
I can see Kamala doing such things. She is that delusional.
Looking farther ahead in the Greens scheduled policy plans helps mobilize the resistance. This needs a great deal of exposure around the remaining free world.
The opening photo needs a small bun with a single sesame seed and a tiny tomato slice. A breakfast photo with cheese and bacon would add to the April Fools character.
From an economic perspective for socialism, this makes total sense. Old people contribute nothing to the economy, and yet consume massive resources to keep alive. So of course they don’t care if their seniors are fed and happy.
Another fine example of why becoming dependent upon the state is a really bad life plan.
See it as a protection for the elderly that won’t be subject to large scale cannibalism, since all meat is limited by this idiotic decision. And since soylent green isn’t made of people, or is it? sarc
I wonder how historian will name this century, the medevial period was called the dark ages…this is either part II or “da looney bin”, unshure which applies better.
The dark ages were the period immediately following the Fall of Rome (the Western Roman Empire)
The Mediaeval period (Middle Ages) was between the Dark Ages and the Renaissance.
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“das finstere Mittelalter” – “the dark middle ages” that’s how we learned it in school back in the days….well regardless now and then stupid belief(s) hampered society and cost it dearly.
So no lessons learned from the past nor ever will be it seems to me.
That’s interesting. We were taught that the Dark Ages were when things were really bad, and things had started to improve by the Middle Ages.
Well, it also had a lot to do with lost knowledge, and the Middle Ages were when some of that started to be recovered and built on, with the first Universities.
I looked this up online (so it must be true) and it seems that either the definitions have changed over the last 40 years or my memory is worse than I thought.
Apparently the Middle Ages (now) span the entire period from the fall of the Western Roman Empire to The Renaissance, and 500 AD – 1000 AD is now the early Middle Ages rather than just being The Dark Ages.
Wikipedia actually has a decent article on the topic. It looks like my memory is correct this time, and “Early Middle Ages” is the PC term for the period formerly known as The Dark Ages.
This has been an entertaining little rabbit hole to fall into.
“useless eaters” as Stalin called them.
“Old people contribute nothing to the economy, and yet consume massive resources to keep alive.”
One could argue that politicians could be tarred with the same brush.
Applies to Progressives in general. Of all the avowed Marxists I knew in school, absolutely none of them envisioned their futures as one of the “workers”.
Perhaps allow the elderly residents of these institutions to carry tasers to ward off food theft by the deliverers of the plates?
This applies to people who planned and are financing their retirement, too.
Haha looking closer at the picture, it is that hilarious advertising spot where the old lady yells:
It’s a nice big burger, BUT WHERE’S THE BEEF?!?
Thanks Wendy’s…we never had you here in Germany but the spot made us laugh hard back in the days. Today we find it a bit harder to laugh at all that shit they want us to swallow (not refering to fast food chains)
My sister, living as an expat in Ireland, was visiting us when that commercial was running. She got the biggest kick out of it so the next year when they picked me up at the ferry landing south of Dublin from Wales, on my first visit to Ireland, I was wearing a “Where’s the beef” T-shirt. She nearly fell over laughing. The next thing I remember was sitting in a cozy pub with 3 pints heading our way. That ad up above was a nice memory coming back. I love meat and poultry plus eggs. . I try to get it in decent amounts every day. Dairy is not good to me but some hard cheese. Animal food. Watts not to like?
“It’s a nice big burger…”
If I remember correctly, the lines were like …
Three old ladies saying, “It’s a nice big bun.” Then they lift the bun and it’s the feisty one that shouts (over the counter), “WHERE’S THE BEEF!?” A pause, then, ‘I don’t think there’s anybody back there.”
You left out, “big, fluffy bun”.”
23-31 oz of meat per day? Does anybody proof read this stuff? or have any common sense? The source document says per WEEK. So that’s a 600% error. Sheesh.
This is a policy used in several places in Sweden for some years. Most people don’t care, not realising they will end up in the same situation some day …
Lack of critical thinking and field vision, (long term & distance)…”spanish cancer” I use(d) to call it (applies nowadays everywhere)
Skål, a toast to the common ignorance
Back in the 1970’s and ’80’s, critical thinking including detecting propaganda was part of the Swedish national educational plan. It was never tought though, except indirectly at technical and scientifical schools, as most school boards and other employees already back then was mostly left wing supporters.
I guess the eco-warriors didn’t read the recently-released Swedish study that indicates eating more (not processed) meat
lowers the incidence of dementia in people with a particular genetic risk factor for Alzheimer’s disease.
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/high-meat-consumption-lower-dementia-risk-in-alzheimers-gene-carriers#What-is-APOE
A work friend of mine ate very little to no fat. Dry toast, skim milk on cereal, no salt, etc. She was a tiny thing body wise. She died of Alzheimer’s like her sister and mother, who had similar habits.
This is about choice. I chose to become a vegetarian in the 70’s adding back occasional chicken or turkey later on. What other people choose to eat is (or should be) up to them, not the government certainly.
Yeah, without the Netherlands pitching in we will never be able to keep the Earth from overheating.
After this CO2 mania subsides, future generations will realize just how silly this whole human-caused climate change thing really is.
Human beings are easily misled, by others, or by themselves, or a combination.
Snap out of it, people!
Along with ghosts, UFOs, zombies, and reflections off cars that resemble the Virgin Mary.
But the Jesus in toasted cheese is REAL!!
Europe, as a whole, is lost.
Europe has never met a freedom that it did not want to give away! Their kings have all been replaced by Leftist Elites. God bless Nigel Farage perhaps he can lead them out of serfdom given the chance.
Well, since you’re in your twilight years, just thank the brains behind the plan with a few doses of leadicilline, delivered in rapid succession.
They have better food in jail anyway.
Marxists jsut can’t stand to let people decide for themselves, and there is always a crisis to justify regulating others behavior.