Kleptocrats Keep Doubling Down on Climate Change, Despite Facts That Say Otherwise

 Following on yesterday's post pointing out that the push to deprive you of meat in the name of climate change is really a power grab by the kleptocratic elites, comes a piece by Gabriella Hoffman at Townhall.com entitled Want to Save the Planet? Stick to Eating Meat.

Preservationists, including Bill Gates, will not like the following development: Lab-grown meat– seen as a “climate-friendly” alternative to animal agriculture– is, in fact, worse for the environment than red meat.

Last month, researchers at University of California at Davis (UCD) published an eye-opening paper finding lab-grown meat is more energy intensive and responsible for a higher carbon footprint than beef, for instance, reared by farmers and ranchers.

Animal cell-based meat, (ACBM), or lab-grown meat, they concluded, “is likely to be orders of magnitude higher than median beef production if a highly refined growth medium is utilized for ACBM production.”

ACBM “meat” has a global warming potential that is “four to 25 times greater than the average for retail beef,” the study added.

Ouch. Talk about an inconvenient truth.

Yesterday, I spelled out that properly managed herds of ruminant animals is good for the ebvironment because these animals build up the soil and reverse desertification. I have observed before that many animals change the environment to suit them. You know that man does this, but I have observed that even bees promote the flowering plants that they depend upon. After we foolishly eliminated the giant herds of buffalo that kept the Great Plains healthy, we discover that we can use cattle to do the same thing. In addition to making and keeping our environment healthy, these herds provide nutrition for us, making us and them a vital part of the environment. This is exactly 180 degrees from the sick notions of our kleptocratic elites.

Eating wild game meat, another red meat, also has innumerable benefits–especially if you hunt it. The University of Wyoming says consuming deer, elk, and other wild game meat is recommended. Why? It’s rich in protein, B-vitamins, iron, and zinc and inherently boasts low levels of saturated fat.

Fake “plant-based” meats, in comparison, are far worse for your health. One Harvard University scientist warned, “Some of those products, even though they contain high amounts of plant-based protein, may also contain unhealthy ingredients, such as high amounts of sodium or unhealthy fats.”

The Dublin Declaration, a consortium of scientists who want objectively back in studies relating to animal agriculture, said divorcing livestock from the environment would have ruinous effects. Their declaration proclaimed livestock boost the environment by “recycling in various ways the large amounts of inedible biomass that are generated as by-products during the production of foods for the human diet.” Other inherent benefits include “carbon sequestration, improved soil health, biodiversity, watershed protection and the provision of important ecosystem services.”

As Hoffman writes, despite these facts, the kleptocrats are doubling down, claiming to know better than those that actually raise and depend on ruminants for a living, and insisting on their foolish desire to eliminate the cattle industry. They want to do this because they want to steal our substance, and make themselves rich by impoverishing us.