Climactivists Step Up Attacks On Meat, Livestock & Ranchers
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Climate activists often target ranchers with claims that global warming will harm livestock production. In reality, climate activists themselves are a much larger threat to cattle, ranching, and livestock production.
This past week, as is often the case, climate activists aggressively vilified ranchers and livestock production in hopes of ruining ranchers and livestock.
On March 24, Sentient Media published an article titled, “Cattle Farming Is One of the Most Destructive Industries on the Planet.”
As you may have guessed from the article’s title, the article attempts to motivate people to avoid eating meat and to impose restrictions on livestock production that would drive ranchers into extinction.
“[N]o matter how one looks at it, the facts still point to the overwhelmingly detrimental impact of cattle farming on the environment,” the article asserts. “Cattle farming is one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gases, thus being a major cause of climate change.”
“Cattle farming has also often displaced local communities who have ensured more regenerative and balanced uses of land in their environments,” the article continues. “It causes air and water pollution. The industry also treats living beings as commodities and shows no consideration for their welfare.”
On April 1, the website Green Biz published an article titled, “Can low meat consumption be the key to a thriving – and circular – food system?”
The article claims, “our global food systems require a radical reworking more than ever before, for both planetary and human health.”
The article continues, “The impacts of current animal agriculture also affects climate change, air and water pollution, biodiversity and human health. Livestock production has been touted as the biggest driver of habitat destruction, which releases previously-sequestered carbon from vegetation, critically endangers biodiversity, and — perhaps most topically — paves the way for dangerous diseases to spread to humans.”
The article concludes, “what do we value? Hopefully, a world that’s a whole lot cleaner, more just, twice as circular, and a little bit kinder. And in this kind of world, the future of meat is limited.”
In between the March 24 Sentient Media article and the April 1 Green Biz article, a Google News search for “climate change cattle livestock ranch” turns up dozens of articles criticizing ranchers, livestock, and meat for asserted climate change and environmental impacts.
In short, when climate activists ramp up operations in Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, and other states, trying to turn farmers and ranchers into climate activists, they immediately vilify these very farmers and ranchers to everyone else once the activists leave livestock-producing states.
Beware of climate activists masquerading as allies of farmers and ranchers. Don’t be duped into signing up for your own extinction.
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Harvey Harrison
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There is absolutely zero evidence that pasture grazing meat production is detrimental to the planet in any way. In fact the impact of grazing cattle and wild herbivores is not only beneficial but also essential. There are several enormous examples of this taking place throughout thousands if not millions of years long before mankind introduced his crackpot ideas. 1. The infamous dustbowl of Central North America was the direct result of the policy of the US Government to slaughter the massive population of bison on the Great Plains to deprive the indigenous population of their principal source of food and many other important products such as skins for clothing and accommodation. It was a deliberate policy of genocide through destroying nature to open the way for European settlement which magically became American. This destroyed ecosystem was only returned to productivity through the use of artificial fertilizers, ironically derived from petrochemicals which they are now in the process of vilifying. Of course the fact that burning petrochemicals is presently the most efficient way of returning the life preserving CO2 to the atmosphere. Carbon is the basis of all life on earth and that source is and was atmospheric CO2. That is why CO2 has been reduced to a trace gas as life on earth has used up the once prolific CO2 to produce the life we see on earth today. OK let’s be total ignoramuses and suggest that CO2 is threat to life on earth.
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Saighdear
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Well put, and to add: what else to do with the vegetation on “mountainous” or hilly land or wet lands where we cannot grow “vegetables”
Has anyone done an article about he Green blob veggies tearing into the remote countryside to grow food around the rocky boulders and poorly drained parts of our country? Of course not: that is to be kept for the wildlife: so where did our great open fields come from? – they were CLEARED to provide the stones for the dykes & walls leaving a cleaner field for “mechanised” working.from the dyas of the animal draft machinery to what we have now. ….
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Protestant
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Part of the Globalist “New Feudalism”, just like in the good old days, when peasants were forced to be vegetarians because they were too poor to afford meat, and they could be legally killed if they dared to catch so much as a bird or a rabbit from their lord’s vast hunting reserves. Vegans are reportedly weaker, more docile and easily controlled than meat-eaters. See “The Hunger Games” as predictive programming.
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John Doran
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The elite wet dream is a feudal future of Lords & serfs. No industry, no middle class.
they want a return to the Irish potato famine, when the deliberately impoverished Catholics were forced to exist on potatoes alone, & died in their millions when a blight destroyed the potatoes.
All the while Ireland was exporting food, tons daily, to England.
The Brit Empire provoked similar famines in India.
Book: Merchants Of Despair, by PhD nuclear engineer Robert Zubrin.
JD.
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