Cigarette-style climate warnings on food could cut meat consumption, study suggests
People are used to seeing stark warnings on tobacco products alerting them about the potentially deadly risks to health. Now a study suggests similar labelling on food could help them make wiser choices about not just their health, but the health of the planet.
The research, by academics at Durham University, found that warning labels including a graphic image – similar to those warning of impotence, heart disease or lung cancer on cigarette packets – could reduce selections of meals containing meat by 7-10%.
It is a change that could have a material impact on the future of the planet. According to a recent YouGov poll, 72% of the UK population classify themselves as meat-eaters. But the Climate Change Committee (CCC), which advises the government on its net zero goals, has said the UK needs to slash its meat consumption by 20% by 2030, and 50% by 2050, in order to meet them.
Any study that also includes indirect greenhouse gas emissions such as methane, and not just CO2.
The same methane that can be greatly cut down just by changing the diet of the cows? That methane?
Except they don't. They keep pumping out agricultural funded studies that say "a crumb of seaweed solves climate change!" but we're always soon™.
Lol they never make the janitor sign an NDA. It works, figuring out how to lock down the patent is what's keeping it from market.
Greed, just greed.
There are NO emissions from cattle at all! Cattle eat grass, then fart, then "emissions" precipitate and new grass grows up. It's a closed loop. And since it's a closed loop, there are zero emissions. Emissions only happen when you dig up oil, burn it and it and your smoke doesn't get converted back to oil.
Thanks for giving me the dumbest shit I've heard today.
Lolwut?