Blacklock’s- Gov’t Polls On Meatless Diets
In-house Privy Council researchers have polled Canadians’ willingness to adopt a vegetarian diet for the sake of climate change. Only seven percent of people surveyed identified themselves as vegetarian or vegan.
A United Nations report Healthy Diets For A Healthier Planet blames livestock, poultry and seafood production for emitting greenhouse gases. “Red meat, dairy and farmed shrimp are generally associated with the highest greenhouse gas emissions,” said Healthier Planet. “This is because meat production often requires extensive grasslands which is often created by cutting down trees.”
“This is because meat production often requires extensive grasslands which is often created by cutting down trees.”
Not sure I believe that. Grasslands usually don’t support tree growth. Are they cutting down forests and planting grass to raise cattle? Make that illegal. And farmed shrimp require more CO2 than wild shrimp? What about the food cycle because once those shrimp are caught it’s pretty much the same process to get them onto your table.
You shouldn’t believe it; it’s complete BS. Livestock is raised on land which is unfit for raising grains and always has been. Livestock is primarily raised on land fit only for growing grasses, not trees.
Why would we be surprised at this? The UN is nothing more than a communist propaganda agency.
Preeezacktly, cgh.
That happens in Brazil, not in Canada, but they want to make you think that it happens here.
Exactly. The meme that MacDonalds is clear-cutting the rain forest to supply the world’s hankering for Big Mac’s is burned into the minds of low-information people who are susceptible to communist sloganeering
BS. Grade 6 Geography. grasslands are grasslands; forests are forests. These people so ignorant.
Not ignorant. This is UN communist propaganda, so the disinformation is deliberate.
“Red meat, dairy and farmed shrimp are generally associated with the highest greenhouse gas emissions,” said Healthier Planet. “This is because meat production often requires extensive grasslands which is often created by cutting down trees”.
Beef and other livestock production in Canada rarely involves cutting down trees and I’m pretty sure it almost never happens on the prairies, which has massive amounts of natural grasslands. So, that is a ridiculous argument to justify reducing livestock production and consumption in Canada.
BTW, vegetable production requires tilling up the land to plant seeds but also uses vast amounts of pesticides and herbicides. Plus, of course, water for irrigation and machinery for harvesting and seeding. It also needs good soil and a specific temperatures to be successful. Beef production uses marginal, drier land and cows are incredibly hardy creatures.
I eat mostly venison instead of beef but that’s by choice, most people want beef. In free countries, governments should not be in the business of micromanaging people’s food choices through legislation. Their role is inspecting for safety and ensuring fair business practices.
I’d rather not eat beef. Venison alternative available?
All together now: “I love venison the springtime, I love venison the fall…”
It’s much easier but more expensive to buy beef at the grocery store. Besides, it’s difficult to beat a grilled Tbone or porterhouse steak. Many of my relatives are/were ranchers and I respect their way of life.
Getting venison is more work and you have to navigate Canada’s firearm regulations and hunting laws. I’ve been waiting for my PAL renewal for over 4 months but thankfully I applied for zone 99 in the big game hunting draw this year.
It takes years before the beef is cheaper. And that’s with a minimum of upgrades, but that’s half the fun.
Venison is way more rewarding though.
I like being outdoors but I’m more of a meat-in-the-freezer, finished by lunch hunter as opposed to a thrill-of-the-hunt, big deer/moose hunter like my husband and kids. I only hunt occassionally, as needed.
How much in advance of your license expiry date did they get your renewal application? (They received mine three months in advance, according to Canada Post, and my new license arrived almost nine months later.)
I applied 2.5 months before my renewal date. If the federal government (RCMP) can’t process applications in a reasonable period of time then they should let the provinces take over the PAL responsibilities. Not sure if the problem is understaffing or just another way to make firearm ownership and hunting more of a hassle. 9 months for a simple renewal is unacceptable unless there’s a problem with the application or a change of circumstances of the applicant.
I had delays too (sent it 4 months early), tracked my file and it was always “being processed” or whatever. I called a half dozen times and I finally, I got through a human at the federal level. He transferred me to the provincial office (it took 2 seconds). A nice lady answered, I explained the problem and she asked me if I was part of a club (i.e. actively using firearm, unlike some people that have PALs but do not use them). I answered yes. She got my file on her computer, pushed a button ad it was done, my PAL was mailed to me the week after.
Thanks Pappy. That’s good to know. We have a family membership at our local wildlife federation (which gives access to the rifle range) and I’m in the annual hunting draw so that might help hurry things along if the delay is too long.
Rather than a “meatless diet”, how about a “totalitarianless society”?
This is all about control, and creating problems, not fixing them. Remember the goal. It is not stupidity, it is malevolence, and completely evil.
“Let them eat meat”! they might like it. I am a meat eater as part of my balanced diet. Never going to stop.
Strangely enough there are studies that show that grasslands are better carbon sinks than forests. If there are wildfires then the carbon stored in trees is released back into the atmosphere but grasses store their carbon in the roots and do not release it when burnt.
https://www.earth.com/news/trees-grass-carbon-sink/
Other studies show that just the amount of lawns in the US would absorb the emissions from around 18 million vehicles. That whole argument is flawed since they don’t mention the grassland absorption rate at all.
If we stop meat production, where is the “organic fertilizer” going to come from to grow all the crops to replace the calories (and protein) that meat provides, given that they also want to ban artificial fertilizers?
I remember an article by Matt Ridley about an unintended consequences of banning grazing animals from grasslands in some part of the UK. Turns out that it negatively affected a species of (endangered?) butterfly because the ungrazed grass prevented the soil from warming up properly for the reproductive success of the butterfly. Grazing animals have always been part of grasslands and they are a necessary part. On the Canadian prairies cattle has merely replaced the plains bison herds.
One might look at the policies that they want to implement, and come to the conclusion that the “unintended consequences” aren’t at all “unintended”.
Eating less Meat won’t save the Planet. Here’s Why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGG-A80Tl5g
I have resolved to eat more red meat, dairy and shrimp.
I knew it! The Injuns cut down every tree in the Prairies to raise those vast herds of Buffalo 500 years before the chainsaw was invented.
It must be noted that Canada shares the world’s largest forest with Russia: the Boreal forest.