‘Gigantic’ power of meat industry blocking green alternatives, study finds
‘Gigantic’ power of meat industry blocking green alternatives, study finds
Analysis of EU and US shows livestock farmers receive about 1,000 times more public funding than plant-based and cultivated meat
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The “gigantic” power of the meat and dairy industries in the EU and US is blocking the development of the greener alternatives needed to tackle the climate crisis, a study has found.
Cutting meat and dairy consumption also slashes pollution, land and water use, and the destruction of forests, with scientists saying it is the single biggest way for people to reduce their impact on the planet.
“The power of the animal farming sector, both in the US and in Europe, and the political influence they have is just gigantic,” said Prof Eric Lambin, who conducted the study with Dr Simona Vallone, both at Stanford University, US.
The researchers concluded that “powerful vested interests exerted their political influence to maintain the system unchanged and to obstruct competition created by technological innovations”.
Lambin said: “We found that the amazing obstacles to the upscaling of the alternative technologies relates to public policies that still massively fund the incumbent system, when we know it’s really part of the problem in terms of climate change, biodiversity loss and some health issues.”
Alex Holst, at the Good Food Institute Europe, said: “While European investment in sustainable proteins has increased in recent years, this study shows the sector is still only picking the crumbs off the EU’s table.
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Why am I not surprised? Every big industry is trying to undermine any change that would cost them money or power. It's fucking criminal yet no government will do anything because money and jobs
Why should a government do something against the will of the people if they have nothing to gain from it?
We can opt out and stop supporting the Animal industry. If ~10% of all stop supporting it politics will change.
There's something we humans seem to not understand: not everything has to be a gain. There are things that need to change, whether we like it or not. I eat meat, I could never be a vegetarian. Yet if the government did something about the meat industry and meat gets really expensive I would complain for a bit and then keep on living, eating other things.
Every change people act like it's the end of the world. And corporations know that, and push against change and regulations. What we need is strong politics but that's a utopia nowadays
At this point you gotta put quotes around jobs because there's only money flowing via lobbying / legal bribery. The Fed wants higher unemployment and employers are happy to oblige.
Or maybe the jobs are the revolving door consultation jobs we made along the way :)
Why are there always anti-nuclear and articles about industries that account for ">15%" of of greenhouse emissions in the "green" community? The world burned more coal last year then it has in any previous year, yet I never see articles about the coal industry? I exclusively see articles about how if just 90% of the most powerless people in the world made their life measurably worse, thing it "would help." Why the fuck aren't we talking about the other systemic 85% of greenhouse gasses? Why do we need to destroy human culinary culture in order to preserve corporate profits?
You never see articles about the coal industry? I'm just gonna call bullshit on this one
Link one? I see one thread that references the "fossil fuel industry," which coal is certainly a part of. But honestly a comparison of the number of articles about coal vs agricultural green house gases on lemmy doesn't really matter. But I do get the sense that cost and individual action are are given too much weight in the lemmy green community.