He’s an Outspoken Defender of Meat. Industry Funds His Research, Files Show.

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In 2019, three dozen leading researchers sounded a stark warning in a prominent scientific journal: To fight climate change and improve human health, the world needed to dramatically cut back on eating red meat.

Because IFeeder, formally known as the Institute for Feed Education & Research, is the charitable arm of the livestock-industry association, it is not subject to detailed state disclosure rules.

Lara Moody, executive director of IFeeder, said the group funded the Clear Center to further scientific research and discourse on animal agriculture’s environmental effects.

The message of the five-minute video is that, because methane is a relatively short-lived greenhouse gas (once it’s in the atmosphere, it becomes less potent as the years go by), cattle would not cause additional warming as long as their numbers did not grow.

The Clear Center’s messaging, the memo said, would counterbalance “a small but vocal minority with hidden agendas,” such as celebrities and policymakers, who were harming meat’s reputation.

But a list of funders made public by UC Davis in response to the public-records request shows that the center receives almost all its funding from companies and industry groups, with the exception of a few relatively small amounts from a family foundation and other sources.

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Corporate funding of academic research is rampant. UC Davis is known to be flooded with big ag money.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
In 2019, three dozen leading researchers sounded a stark warning in a prominent scientific journal: To fight climate change and improve human health, the world needed to dramatically cut back on eating red meat.
Because IFeeder, formally known as the Institute for Feed Education & Research, is the charitable arm of the livestock-industry association, it is not subject to detailed state disclosure rules.
Lara Moody, executive director of IFeeder, said the group funded the Clear Center to further scientific research and discourse on animal agriculture’s environmental effects.
The message of the five-minute video is that, because methane is a relatively short-lived greenhouse gas (once it’s in the atmosphere, it becomes less potent as the years go by), cattle would not cause additional warming as long as their numbers did not grow.
The Clear Center’s messaging, the memo said, would counterbalance “a small but vocal minority with hidden agendas,” such as celebrities and policymakers, who were harming meat’s reputation.
But a list of funders made public by UC Davis in response to the public-records request shows that the center receives almost all its funding from companies and industry groups, with the exception of a few relatively small amounts from a family foundation and other sources.
The original article contains 1,917 words, the summary contains 204 words. Saved 89%. I'm a bot and I'm open source!