EU Lobbying: a 'scientific paper' describing efforts to reduce meat eating as ‘zealotry' turned out to be a propaganda tool against the EU’s green deal and beating cancer plan
EU Lobbying: a 'scientific paper' describing efforts to reduce meat eating as ‘zealotry' turned out to be a propaganda tool against the EU’s green deal and beating cancer plan
Leading European agribusiness groups are using a manifesto called the Dublin Declaration to lobby EU officials against policies to reduce meat consumption.
The 'Dublin Declaration of Scientists'm on the Societal Role of Livestock', launched at the Irish government agricultural agency Teagasc in October last year and signed by over 1,000 scientists, and was covered by newspapers including the Telegraph and the New York Post, is a short document that argues for the nutritional, environmental and social benefits of meat-eating. It says that livestock is “too precious to society to become the victim of simplification, reductionism or zealotry”.
But hundreds of pages of emails, meeting minutes and other documents obtained through freedom of information requests reveal that the Declaration was written, released and promoted by agribusiness consultants, and has been used by trade groups and lobbyists to oppose green policies in Europe.
Tl;dr meat industry wants you to keep eating meat.
They're afraid. Good.
I think we’ve turned a corner. Vegetarian options are getting better and better. Even for an inveterate meat enjoyer like myself, it’s absolutely not a hardship anymore to only eat meat a few times a week.
The meat market has peaked for good.
I do think that we're about to see a giant generational shift when all the boomers and older gen x die off. There are a lot of people who are mysteriously tying the eating of meat to their identity and won't budge on the subject.
What's mysterious about the identification with meat-eating? If you learned to do something wrong, so that you are used to it, it takes severe effort to unlearn it. So, once you are confronted with it being wrong, you can either accept the fact and adjust or if you are not able to have to deal with the cognitive dissonance by strengthening your personality around the wrong and bend the facts in whatever way neccessarry to fit that bill.
It's not a scientific paper. Its a one page declaration.
Beef Barons at it again, though when are they not?
Link for anyone curious: https://www.dublin-declaration.org/
That shit makes my blood boil. What they're writing is denying the whole reality of livestock production as it is actually happening. Their "positive aspects" are mostly theoretically possible but aren't actually utilized like that at any greater scale.
Based on the quotes alone, anyone who read that and thought it was a serious scientific paper is an idiot.
Even my boomer parents agree that boomers destroyed the world.
Both the Telegraph as well as the NY Post are inherently shit nobody with a functioning brain cell should ever even look. It certainly doesn't surprise me those were the papers this blatantly propagandist content found a audience and was therefore chosen to be riled up.