Climate activists often target ranchers with claims that global warming will harm livestock production. In reality, climate activists themselves are a much larger threat to cattle, ranching, and livestock production.
This past week, as is often the case, climate activists aggressively vilified ranchers and livestock production in hopes of ruining ranchers and livestock.
On March 24, Sentient Media published an article titled, “Cattle Farming Is One of the Most Destructive Industries on the Planet.”
As you may have guessed from the article’s title, the article attempts to motivate people to avoid eating meat and to impose restrictions on livestock production that would drive ranchers into extinction.
“[N]o matter how one looks at it, the facts still point to the overwhelmingly detrimental impact of cattle farming on the environment,” the article asserts. “Cattle farming is one of the largest contributors to greenhouse gases, thus being a major cause of climate change.”
“Cattle farming has also often displaced local communities who have ensured more regenerative and balanced uses of land in their environments,” the article continues. “It causes air and water pollution. The industry also treats living beings as commodities and shows no consideration for their welfare.”
On April 1, the website Green Biz published an article titled, “Can low meat consumption be the key to a thriving – and circular – food system?”
The article claims, “our global food systems require a radical reworking more than ever before, for both planetary and human health.”
The article continues, “The impacts of current animal agriculture also affects climate change, air and water pollution, biodiversity and human health. Livestock production has been touted as the biggest driver of habitat destruction, which releases previously-sequestered carbon from vegetation, critically endangers biodiversity, and — perhaps most topically — paves the way for dangerous diseases to spread to humans.”
The article concludes, “what do we value? Hopefully, a world that’s a whole lot cleaner, more just, twice as circular, and a little bit kinder. And in this kind of world, the future of meat is limited.”
In between the March 24 Sentient Media article and the April 1 Green Biz article, a Google News search for “climate change cattle livestock ranch” turns up dozens of articles criticizing ranchers, livestock, and meat for asserted climate change and environmental impacts.
In short, when climate activists ramp up operations in Montana, Wyoming, Nebraska, and other states, trying to turn farmers and ranchers into climate activists, they immediately vilify these very farmers and ranchers to everyone else once the activists leave livestock-producing states.
Beware of climate activists masquerading as allies of farmers and ranchers. Don’t be duped into signing up for your own extinction.
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Livestock have been on this Earth for Eons but only now according to these idiots their causing Global Warming/Climate Change.Sentient Media just another bunch of idiots Here is proof positive that strict vegan diet causes Brains to Shrink
Climate change science is very specifically a theory about the impact of burning fossil fuels since the industrial revolution and not about animal husbandry since the neolithic revolution but the eco wackos have latched on and brought their excess luggage to the climate issue.
https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/06/19/vegandiet/
Vegan activism is anti-livestock and has nothing to do with climate, other than using it as a Trojan horse.
Great comments, mr Gumnut. Thanks.
Sentient Media is a dead giveaway.
A carrot is not deemed to be sentient and therefore may be eaten alive…
Out of mere chance very stupid people will be right once in a while. It is true that raising live stock releases a great deal of green house gasses. However, so do termites. The important thing is carbon dioxide has little to no correlation to the earth’s temperature. There has never been any proof so the activists just use the political arena to act on that assumption. Also very important is that the Russian model, which matches real world data more closely than any other, only predicts 1.4 degrees C of warming by 2100.
A few people will be willing to give up meat. Some already have. However, “The article claims, “our global food systems require a radical reworking more than ever before, for both planetary and human health.” This is advocating a top down approach of forcing people to give up meat. This is another example of how taking away freedom of choice is the goal of the climate change movement.
When European settlers arrived in the American mid-west, they saw vast herds of North American Bison (a.k.a buffalo), so big they never counted them, but could have been up to 100 million individuals. The quantity of methane put out by today’s cattle would be dwarfed by the amount put out by those countless head of bison…
Their getting as rediculous and as idiotic as PETA who is always trying to force its stupid ideas of Veganism and Animal Rights upon all of us with stupid protests
Elimination of cows (and their farting) wouldn’t change anything. The grass and plants they eat would decay and produce the same amount of methahne and CO2, just in different proportions. basic math. DUH !
You have a good point. Where does the carbon come from that cows emit as carbon dioxide? It certainly does not come from the cows rearranging the subatomic particles of other elements to create carbon. That carbon comes from the plants they eat. The pants get the carbon by adsorbing CO2 out of the air. So as far as carbon dioxide, the cows are merely returning the carbon to the air that the plants took out. However, if you are a vegetarian, vegan, or member of PETA, the CO2 emitted by cows makes a good excuse to force your personal beliefs on the rest of society.
The article talks about habit destruction. This high lights the hypocrisy of the climate change movement. Millions of acres of forests and farm land are being destroyed by developers. Yet, environmentalists are not opposing it, so it must be okay with them. Climate activists make bogus claims on how climate change is disproportionately impacting communities of color. Yet, there agenda calls for drastically increasing the cost of energy which would have a severe impact on such communities. Climate activist complain about habit destruction caused by live stock, but it is perfectly okay to cut down entire forests for bio-fuel.
Genghis Khan,Adolph Hitler,Charles Manson and Pol Pot were all Vegans