UN Set to Urge West to Reduce Meat Consumption to Fight Climate Change
The United Nations (U.N.) Food & Agriculture Organization (FAO) is expected to release a plan at the upcoming COP28 climate summit in Dubai asking the U.S. and other developed nations to reduce their meat consumption to fight climate change.
FAO investors representing $18 trillion in combined assets petitioned the organization to create a “Global Roadmap to 1.5” degrees Celsius, which the FAO Deputy Director, Zitouni Ould-Dada, set out to accomplish and publish at the COP28.
In a letter prompting the roadmap, investors claimed it is “crucial that this roadmap aligns with the Paris Agreement’s goal of limiting global warming to 1.5˚C while ensuring the protection and restoration of nature.” Investors also alleged that “even if fossil fuel emissions were eliminated immediately, food system emissions alone would make it impossible to reach 1.5°C, and sustainable diets play a key role.”
Diets considered sustainable by environmental organizations often consist of artificially lab-grown meat, which recently received FDA approval, in addition to other high protein sources like insects and bug and plant-based protein powders — many of which have received several high-profile investors.
Now, the FAO is poised to reveal its new plan which is expected to urge Western nations including the United States to drastically reduce meat consumption to limit livestock herd populations globally. Several European countries have embraced policies that strictly regulate agriculture processes, and many have already proposed culling thousands of cattle to reduce emissions.
TPUSA previously reported that earlier this year, Ireland considered cutting the country’s dairy cow population by 200,000 to reduce their carbon footprint.
In the Netherlands, farmers were told to implement a 30 percent reduction in emissions by 2030 or risk having their farms forcibly shut down by the government. One Dutch town even placed a ban on all meat advertisements to drive down demand for the product. The environmental laws sparked mass protests across the country, and eventually led to the election of hardline conservative Geert Wilders, who supports farmer autonomy.
The FAO’s roadmap is expected to push for similar agricultural policy changes to curb the alleged effects of climate change. The U.N. has previously advocated for a reduction in meat consumption, echoed by globalists at the World Economic Forum. The U.N. called for “big changes to farming and eating habits to limit the impact of population growth,” namely, reducing the number of livestock and produce cultivated from major agriculture-exporting nations.
As TPUSA previously reported, American climate activist John Kerry “warned that ‘the human race’s need to produce food to survive’ is responsible for up to 33 percent of greenhouse gas emissions, and that to reach net zero, agriculture would need to be addressed ‘front and center.’” TPUSA contributor Anthony Watson responded to his statements, noting that “Climate alarmists frequently place humanity and nature at odds, and concern themselves with limiting human activity rather than prioritizing human advancement.”
