#meat industry

[rednblacksalamander]

I'm not anti-technology, I just think there's something deeply sick about a society where robots make art and children work in factories.

#child labor #robotics #capitalism #meat industry #political cartoon

[magnetothemagnificent]

It's so weird how meat-forward American food culture is that Americans who don't eat meat every day will say to me "yeah I'm basically vegetarian I don't eat meat *every* day" like????? Please I'm begging you to consider other forms of protein the human body is not meant to only eat meat, we are omnivores.

Like. It was honestly pretty easy for me to switch to a vegetarian diet because I grew up in a kosher household and kosher meat is *expensive* so we only had meat on Shabbat (once a week). But then I'll talk to other Americans and they'll talk about eating meat every day and I'm like??? How???

I think humans are meant to eat meat and I think expecting everyone to give it up is wrong, but c'mon this is not sustainable you do not need to be eating meat every single day.

Why is America so meat obsessed?????

#food anthropology #food production #american food culture #meat industry #if I had the time I'd answer my question and the answer would be the legacy of colonialism and displacing indigenous #to make way for cattle pastures

[vegan-and-sara]

Dozens of youths illegally employed to clean meat plants, Labor Dept. says

Federal investigators accuse Packer Sanitation Services of employing at least 31 youths, ages 13 to 17, to clean kill floors and other areas where animals are slaughtered.

Several youths, including a 13-year-old, suffered chemical burns and other injuries, the Labor Department said. A 14-year-old worker who also suffered burns, investigators said, cleaned meat-cutting machines 18 hours a week during 11 p.m. to 5 a.m. shifts, then went to school and fell asleep in classes or missed them completely.

Packer Sanitation Services interfered with the Labor Department’s investigation by intimidating the children from cooperating with investigators, the agency alleged in a complaint filed Wednesday. The company also deleted and manipulated employment records, the Department said.

#the meat industry being evil as usual #vegan #plant based #meat industry #child abuse

[wachinyeya]

#i’ve heard this and seaweed/kelp? i think #but also we need to have beef alternatives and just eat less meat in general #but every bit helps #good news #animals #science #meat eating #climate change #meat industry #environmentalism #environment #methane #greenhouse gases #greenhouse gas reduction

[devoted1989]

Image with kind permission from Compassion in World Farmimg.

#vegan #veganism #animal rights #slaughter #slaughterhouse #slaughterhouses #factory farms #meat industry #stop factory farming #pig cruelty #pork cruelty #bacon cruelty

[climatecalling]

The water supply that 40 million Americans rely on has been pushed to its limit. Reservoirs and wells are running low. This week, the states that rely on water from the Colorado River reached a temporary deal with the Biden administration on sharing what’s left.What’s using all that water?

The majority [56%] of the water in the Colorado River basin — more than one trillion gallons — is used to grow feed for livestock, connecting the region’s water crisis to how much dairy and meat we eat.

The crops grown for humans to eat directly, like vegetables, use up less than a quarter of the amount of water that livestock feed does. And residential consumption, like watering your lawn and taking showers, uses a fifth of what livestock feed does.

No paywall: https://web.archive.org/web/20230522173625/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/22/climate/colorado-river-water.html

#climate crisis #meat industry #vegan #vegetarian #colorado river

[allthebrazilianpolitics]

Nestlé supplier used Brazilian beef from seized Indigenous land

On one side of the fence, amid dense forest, the Mỹky people grow their crops: cassava, pequi and cabriteiro fruit. On the other, ranchers raise cattle on devastated land that has been seized from the Indigenous community.

Xinuxi Mỹky, the village elder, says this whole region used to be a forest where different villages thrived. Now only one remains, and the farms have cut into that land as well. “This pasture, where the whites live, was also our village, but now they are raising cattle. The land belonged to us: Indigenous peoples.”

Although the Mỹky people have lived here for centuries, the Menku territory – on the border of the Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna in Brazil’s Mato Grosso state – was only recognised by the Brazilian government in the mid-70s.

Final demarcation of the area is still under consideration; the Mỹky nation calls for the recognition of the full extent of their territory and the federal government has yet to evict the farmers occupying the area.

There are now studies that recognise the entire Mỹky territory. However, the demarcation process is being contested in the courts and is currently frozen under president Jair Bolsanaro. Meanwhile, farmers continue to destroy swathes of forest to plant crops and graze cattle.

Continue reading.

#brazil #politics #environmentalism #environmental justice #brazilian politics #indigenous rights #farming #meat industry #food #amazon rainforest #mod nise da silveira #image description in alt

[miguelinileugim]

If you ever wonder if you'd support slavery as a rich person in a slave owning society, you're in luck, just look at your fridge!

#apparently i would #vegetarian #vegan #meat industry #animal rights

[pupucino]

I have to say that your anti-vegan jokes and anti-vegan and pro-animal-products propaganda isn't actually that funny or clever or insightful. If anything it makes you look uneducated. Like you don't have any common knowledge.

#vegan #meat industry #dairy industry #anti vegan #veganism #vegetarian

[acti-veg]

Pay attention to what happens when a highly respected journalist and authors dares to critique animal agriculture industries. It doesn’t matter how well researched the criticism is, how well sourced, it is always met with the same kind of unthinking vitriol, and far too much of it is applauded or enabled by people who consider themselves leftists and environmentalists.

If you want to see exactly what has got these people frothing at the mouth, the book in question is called Regenesis: Feeding the World Without Destroying the Planet.

#vegan #meat industry #Twitter #farmers

[strangeknight]

call me the meat inspector the way i’m taking a look at the corruption within big business’ pants!

#meatpacking #muckraking #meat inspection #meat industry #big business

[feckcops]

Hot air: five climate myths pushed by the US beef industry

“While fossil fuel consumption has done the most to put us on our dangerous path to climate catastrophe, a widely cited 2020 study in the journal Science argued that we can no longer avoid the worst of the climate crisis by cutting fossil fuels alone. Staying below the average global temperature rise of 2C – a threshold that scientists say will lead to systems collapse, mass extinctions, fatal heat waves, drought and famine, water shortages and flooded cities – will require ‘rapid and ambitious’ changes to food systems.

“The single most impactful food-related change we can make, according to their findings, is not increasing yields, ramping up agricultural efficiency or cutting food waste, though those approaches all would help. It’s adopting a plant-rich diet.

“While building out energy infrastructure can take years, changing our diet is something we can work toward today.”

#meat industry #beef industry #beef #diet #meat #western diets #plant-based #vegan #vegetarian #overconsumption #emissions #greenhouse gases #climate crisis #climate breakdown #climate change #climate #ecological crisis #usa #the west

[plethoraworldatlas]

A beef industry group is running a campaign to influence science teachers and other educators in the US. Over the past eight years, the American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture (AFBFA) has produced industry-backed lesson plans, learning resources, in-person events, and webinars as part of a program to boost the cattle industry’s reputation.

Beef has one of the highest carbon footprints of any food, but AFBFA funding documents reveal that the industry fears that science teachers are exposed to “misinformation,” “propaganda,” and “one-sided or inaccurate” information. The campaign from the AFBFA—a farming-industry-backed group that "educates" Americans about agriculture—is an attempt to fight back and leave school teachers with a “more positive perception” of the beef industry, the funding documents reveal.

According to survey data included in these documents, educators who attended at least one of the AFBFA’s programs were 8 percent more likely to trust positive statements about the beef industry. Some 82 percent of educators who participated in a program had a positive perception of how cattle are raised, and 85 percent believed that the beef industry is “very important” to society.

The beef industry “knows it has a trust issue,” says Jennifer Jacquet, a professor of environmental science and policy at the University of Miami. The industry is attempting to influence public opinion by starting with children, says Jan Dutkiewicz at the Pratt Institute’s Department of Social Science and Cultural Studies. Dutkiewicz points out that one of the AFBFA’s objectives outlined in its most recent funding document is to run events that “engage educators and students … to increase their understanding and positive perceptions of the beef industry.”

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The AFBFA is a contractor to Beef Checkoff, a US-wide program in which beef producers and importers pay a per-animal fee that funds programs to boost beef demand in the US and abroad. In 2024, Beef Checkoff has approximately $42 million to disperse across its initiatives, and a funding request reveals that the AFBFA’s campaign for 2024 is projected to cost $800,000. The allocation of Beef Checkoff funding to programs like this is approved by members of the Cattlemen’s Beef Board and the Federation of State Beef Councils, two groups that represent the cattle industry in the US.

One lesson plan provided as part of the program directs students to beef industry resources to help devise a school menu. In another lesson plan students are directed to create a presentation for a conservation agency regarding the introduction of cattle into their ecological preserve. A worksheet aimed at younger students has them practice their sums by adding up the acreage of cow pastures. Another worksheet based around a bingo game aimed at 8- to 11-year-olds asks teachers to “remind students that lean beef is a nutritions source of protein that can be incorporated in daily meals.”

Science teachers in many states are currently updating their lessons to incorporate the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS)—a set of teaching guidelines that encourage educators to place more emphasis on how science is used in the real world. AFBFA funding documents show that the foundation intends to use the adoption of the NGSS as an opportunity to provide teachers with learning materials that relate to the beef industry.

“Furthermore, NGSS requires teachers to approach challenging topics such as climate change and sustainability,” reads an AFBFA funding authorization request for its education program. It continues: “Teachers and students are receiving information from educationally trusted sources that do not represent agriculture accurately or in a balanced way, and beef production is often the target of "misinformation". To achieve balance and to ensure the accuracy of information, a concerted effort must be made to engage teachers in the conversation around these topics.”

Dutkiewicz says that food production should be taught in US schools but that industry-funded material is unlikely to provide objective information about the impact of beef production. “I worry that clearly partial resources that are strategically designed to achieve a corporate messaging are being provided by a Checkoff program,” he says.

#enviromentalism #ecology #Beef industry #cattle #livestock industry #meat industry #livestock #lobbyists #corporate lobbying #American farm Bureau Foundation for agriculture #AFBFA #Cattle industry #Cattlemen Beef Board #Beef lobby

[wachinyeya]

#methane #good news #environmentalism #science #nature #environment #animals #canada #cattle #beef cattle #meat industry

[superfuxkinghungry]

We hear your cries, we feel your pain, and we are fighting to stop the absolute evilness of the human race, putting you through torture and not regarding your life at all, inflicting extremely unneeded abuse and neglection upon your desparate, suffering, helpless, and loving souls. We will never stop fighting to end the demand and supply of animal products and slaughterhouses globally and save you from a world of pain, that has happened to trillions of animals at the bloody hands of every slaughterhouse worker and animal product consumer! FUCK NON VEGANS WHO ACTIVELY PAY FOR ANIMAL PRODUCTS KNOWING THE SUFFERING THAT COMES WITH IT!!! Anyone can make a difference! 💓💓💓💓

#vegan #vegetarian #go vegan #animal welfare #animal rights #wake up #protect animals #dairy industry #dairy free #meat and poultry #poultry farming #plantbased #animal wellbeing #antinatalism #make the change #stop animal cruelty #love animals #dairy is scary #meat #meat industry #no meat #anti government #anti capitalism #veganism #stop animal testing #stop animal abuse #egg free #eggs #egg industry #animal testing

[vegandude72]

#meat industry #wildlife #meat is murder