All 10 of the largest U.S. meat and dairy companies have lobbied against environmental and climate policies, resisting climate regulations, including rules on greenhouse gases and emissions reporting. This is according to a study by New York University, which examined the political influence of the 10 largest meat and dairy companies in the United States.

  • originalucifer@moist.catsweat.com
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    11 months ago

    those are some upstanding humans you got there, U.S. meat and dairy.

    stop hiding the humans behind ‘companies’. name freakin names of the bad peoples.

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      1 year ago

      Came here to say this. I have a friend that’s a meat and dairy company, and she (yup, 1 person for-profit farm) doesn’t lobby for or against shit.

      That gets us under 100% already.

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      1 year ago

      It’s legal because the people who benefit from corporate lobbying are the same people who determine what is legal.

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    1 year ago

    Not at all biased when the article starts out with a likely out of context picture of a cow looking terrified and as if it’s crying. Fuck corporations, all of them, fuck them all, but there are a few of us with severe enough allergies that without meat we would starve. Ableist bullshit to believe everyone can stop eating meat.

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    1 year ago

    I mean, we all know the memes, but there has to be like a nuanced take take on why this is the case, right? Is it literally the case that they just don’t give a goddamn about climate change and they’re just going to get theirs while they can and to hell with everything else? Because it’s going to be awful hard to keep your cows fed when climate change starts fucking up their feed crops, and we’re pretty much there right now, as far as I understand it.

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      1 year ago

      The entire system relies on infinite growth in a finite world, trying to find logic in it is futile, never mind ethics…