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FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., is planning to introduce a decision this week condemning all United Nations suggestions that the U.S. decrease its meat consumption to scale back carbon emissions and battle international warming.
Flood is planning to formally introduce the decision Monday amid the continued U.N. COP28 local weather change convention in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, the place delegates are planning to subject a first-of-its-kind report that’s anticipated to name for the West to scale back consumption of beef. The U.N. has, for years, known as for people to ditch animal-based diets, which it says “have a excessive impression on our planet.”
“Resolved, that the Home of Representatives (1) acknowledges the significance of meat and livestock manufacturing to the US economic system; (2) acknowledges the significance of meat and animal-based protein; (3) disapproves of United Nations suggestion to scale back meat consumption of their international meals programs’ highway map; and (4) opposes using any Federal assets to assist makes an attempt to scale back meat consumption,” Flood’s decision states.
Flood, who serves on the Congressional Beef Caucus, joined a refrain of voices this week criticizing the U.N.’s Meals & Agriculture Group (FAO) for making ready its international meals programs’ highway map, which can reportedly embrace a name for the U.S. and different Western nations to ditch meat in favor of plant-based meals. That report is predicted to be printed as quickly as Sunday throughout a COP28 session hosted by FAO.
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Rep. Mike Flood, R-Neb., speaks throughout a information convention on the Capitol in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 11. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Name, Inc through Getty Pictures)
Critics, together with Flood, have argued such a suggestion would current a risk to international meals safety, hurt the economic system and fail to think about emissions reductions achieved by the agriculture trade and American beef producers.
“As delegates from all over the world are making ready to collect in Dubai to establish options to the local weather change disaster, we name on them to have a look at options holistically. Options that search to scale back meat consumption are misguided and can solely result in restricted shopper alternative and better meals costs,” Nationwide Cattlemen’s Beef Affiliation Vice President of Authorities Affairs Ethan Lane stated in a press release shared with Fox Information Digital.
“At a time when malnutrition plagues nations the world over, a discount of high-quality animal protein would disproportionately impression customers who can ill-afford to pay extra and are in the end on the highest danger of malnutrition,” Lane added. “Lowering beef consumption within the U.S. just isn’t a sensible or impactful answer for local weather change. America’s beef producers and customers across the globe deserve actual options to the local weather subject, not synthetic obstacles to protein consumption that can do nothing to unravel the world’s local weather points.”
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The worldwide meals system — which incorporates land-use change, precise agricultural manufacturing, packaging and waste administration — generates about 18 billion tons of carbon dioxide per yr, the equal of 34% of whole worldwide emissions, in response to a March 2021 examine printed within the Nature Meals journal. FAO information signifies livestock alone is chargeable for round 14.5% of world greenhouse fuel emissions.
The U.N.’s Meals & Agriculture Group will publish its first-ever international meals programs’ highway map throughout an upcoming COP28 session, which is predicted to advocate nations that “over-consume meat” restrict their consumption as a part of a broader effort to scale back greenhouse fuel emissions. (Getty Pictures)
Within the U.S., nonetheless, agriculture alone generates about 10% of whole greenhouse fuel emissions, federal information reveals. The American agriculture sector accounts for simply 1.4% of world emissions and has applied a variety of options, making it the nation’s lowest-emitting financial sector.
And beef cattle within the U.S. are chargeable for simply 2% of the nation’s greenhouse fuel emissions and fewer than 0.5% of the world’s emissions.
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“FAO emphasizes the important want for an revolutionary plan and a concrete package deal of options to overtake agrifood programs,” the group stated in a press release to Fox Information Digital earlier this week.
“The World Roadmap is positioned as a strategic device to show that accelerated local weather actions can remodel agrifood programs, concurrently addressing meals safety and vitamin challenges right this moment and sooner or later with out breaching the 1.5 levels threshold. On this roadmap, FAO is urging for good meals for right this moment and tomorrow.”
Thomas Catenacci is a politics author for Fox Information Digital.
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