When the UN speaks, we listen … and when PETA speaks, we really listen:
WE CANNOT FIGHT CLIMATE CHANGE WITHOUT CUTTING OUT MEAT ?
A study for the @UN says meat consumption has to decrease by as much as 90 PERCENT if we’re going to halt #ClimateChange. https://t.co/vMezgjZN0h
— Happy #WorldVeganDay ❤️ PETA (@peta) October 27, 2018
PETA was actually getting a little bit ahead of itself with that tweet from last weekend. Today, Nov. 1, is officially #WorldVeganDay, and Bloomberg is on it.
A note to all carnivores on #WorldVeganDay: If we want to preserve a liveable climate on Earth, the way we eat is going to have to change ? https://t.co/FMk2dRLeol pic.twitter.com/ZbDgeX6P53
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) November 1, 2018
Over the next 30 years, the food system’s impact on the environment stands to at least double if humanity continues eating the way it does now. Negative effects include:
– Pollution
– Species loss
– Greenhouse gas emissions – the greatest threat by far https://t.co/NsoP44hg5r pic.twitter.com/5Mj5Z9dgIH— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) November 1, 2018
More than two-thirds of food-related emissions come from the production of animal products, a study found.
Consumers need to adopt a more plant-based "flexitarian" diet https://t.co/NsoP44hg5r pic.twitter.com/jOqbbB7WJI
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) November 1, 2018
Governments and the food industry have a responsibility to help steer citizens and consumers towards a more plant-based, sustainable diet.
Plus, farmers should receive incentives towards adopting sustainable farming practices https://t.co/NsoP44hg5r pic.twitter.com/lAXbbiFgGl
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) November 1, 2018
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Hear that? The government has a responsibility to “steer citizens and consumers” toward a plant-based diet — it’s amazing the things we missed in civics class.
Food waste should also be cut by companies and households.
About a third of all food is lost before reaching markets or thrown out by households https://t.co/NsoP44hg5r pic.twitter.com/yrz1ZZO2k0
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) November 1, 2018
Ultimately if people made the switch from ??? ➡️ ??? they could cut food-related greenhouse-gas emissions in half by 2050 https://t.co/NsoP44hg5r pic.twitter.com/6kY8ZZR0Nk
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) November 1, 2018
Reluctant to cut back on the ??
You might find it persuasive to know that eating less meat, especially less red meat could help you to live longer https://t.co/NsoP44hg5r pic.twitter.com/OF1EEmKZpP
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) November 1, 2018
Red and processed meat-heavy diets are associated with:
– Certain kinds of cancer
– Obesity
– Diabetes
– High blood pressureIf everyone in the world became vegetarian, annual deaths would fall by 7.3 million https://t.co/NsoP44hg5r pic.twitter.com/TeCPQbyZAo
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) November 1, 2018
But then there would be 7.3 million more people alive and contributing to climate change.
The world is on a path to dangerous warming within in the next 22 years.
Removing or reducing meat from your diet is one thing you could do to help protect the climate (and better your health) https://t.co/NsoP44hg5r pic.twitter.com/F62iHbJM7d
— Bloomberg Opinion (@bopinion) November 1, 2018
Funny how that number always changes; now we have 22 years to save the planet from global climate catastrophe. Wasn’t the old conventional wisdom that we had only 10 years?
Oh, and for the record, Fast Company didn’t even wait for #WorldVeganDay to spring its article on why we must stop eating meat immediately:
Our meat addiction is going to kill our chances of beating climate change https://t.co/3hY1SBciGu
— Fast Company (@FastCompany) October 18, 2018
We’d bet that your average Bloomberg editor eats steak way more often than we do. Or maybe not? Tell us, how many of your editors and reporters have gone vegan?
TL,DR (Tender Loin, Done Rare)
— 100 Proof (@ChampionCapua) November 1, 2018
Suck it
— Benny _/ (@mfkn_beerdrinkr) November 1, 2018
That’s gonna be a no for me, dawg.
— Serious Lee (@NotSoSeriousLee) November 1, 2018
No.
— Just Brad (@bradcundiff) November 1, 2018
No. Next?
— Brian Lewis (@bxlewi1) November 1, 2018
Fuck off. https://t.co/S5vpKhydPo
— Ken Gardner (@KenGardner11) November 1, 2018
Bloomberg wants our guns. Now they want our meat? Bloomberg can suck it!
— Bobup (@rstephenson1531) November 1, 2018
I'm gonna help y'all out by eatin' all the cows I can.
— DesertE (@TEOTWHill) November 1, 2018
Beef, its what's for supper. Man has been eating meat since he figured out how to hunt.
— Puddintane (@imwren) November 1, 2018
Yes we should be eating meats and veggies. No sugars or carbs. Would vastly improve the health of humans. If the world can’t sustain cow farts then we were doomed to begin with.
— MemberBerry (@dbe451) November 1, 2018
Truth. pic.twitter.com/WX70qFehAn
— Leslie (@vamplita) November 1, 2018
Mmm, going to have beef tacos tonight. Thanks for the reminder.
— ?? Nationalist Catherine ?? (@Catheri99062371) November 1, 2018
Counterpoint: pic.twitter.com/YMVfBHsxDt
— Bambos Iguanadon (@zappingzebra) November 1, 2018
Sorry. You will have to pry the ??? from my cold dead hands.
— Diane (@DianeC322) November 1, 2018
I didn't feel like eating meat today, but I'll have a juicy steak now.
— seed 30 2⃣➕2⃣=4⃣ (@petris32) November 1, 2018
The vegetarian argument is religious denial of the overwhelming evidence we now have that: 1) meat based diets are MUCH healthier than plant based diets 2) Ruminants like cows and their symbiotic relationship with grass are the solution to climate change.
— Ricardo Valesquez (@KanyeTheLobster) November 1, 2018
How about you report on the environmental damage caused by the consumption of soy & almond milk. Bet you won’t
— Meg Walsh (@Walsh7Meg) November 1, 2018
Meanwhile 50,000,000 tourists crisscross the globe burning jet fuel because they can.
— ❌American ?? Kraut ?? (@ThatGuyinLA) November 1, 2018
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NOM NOM NOM, patriarchy is DELICIOUS! Conservative women ROAST prof who says meat is sexist https://t.co/Oi3lY9NVqU
— Twitchy Team (@TwitchyTeam) December 4, 2017
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