Hehe big meat
this post was submitted on 16 Jul 2023
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A similar recent article that I thought was interesting and contains many sources: https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/23778399/media-ignores-climate-change-beef-meat-dairy. It focuses a bit more on the role of media though. They also have this older article on big meat lobbying.
Two other good ones that I've read recently were:
He’s an Outspoken Defender of Meat. Industry Funds His Research, Files Show.
and
Inside big beef’s climate messaging machine: confuse, defend and downplay
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According to a 2021 NYU study published in the science journal Springer, ExxonMobil, one of the largest oil and gas companies in the world, spent $235m on lobbying between 2000 and 2018. US-based Tyson, the second-largest meat company in the world after Brazil’s JBS, spent more than $25m between 2001 and 2018. As a share of each company's total revenue over those periods, Tyson spent 21% more on lobbying than ExxonMobil, found the research
Wow
The influence of the meat industry is reminiscent of the influence of the oil and gas industry
Interesting, I usually compare it to the tobacco industry. Meat kills so many people in my country, yet Big Meat still goesion TV and lies that meat is healthy with a straight face.
Most of us know the truth, and eventually we'll have pictures of rotten hearts on packages of meat with warnings from the surgeon general. And hopefully time served for these lying meat execs