In at least two states this year, beef and dairy industries have successfully beat back government food initiatives linking livestock to global warming.
BY GEORGINA GUSTIN
OCT 21, 2019
A string of high-profile scientific studies has called for less meat-intensive diets to help forestall a climate catastrophe, putting the industry on the defensive. Credit: David Paul Morris/Getty Images
In California, a state legislator introduced a bill called the California Climate-Friendly Food Program, with the goal of promoting plant-based foods in schools and reducing greenhouse gas emissions linked to livestock.
Within a few months, references to climate change were stripped out of the text and title. The bill instead became the California School Plant-Based Food and Beverage Program.
On the other coast, in Maryland, the state’s Green Purchasing Committee launched the Carbon-Intensive Foods Subcommittee to study which foods have the largest carbon footprints and to steer the state away from…
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Exposing the Big Game 
This is where individual should exercise their right (and power) to cut back or stop eating meat altogether. Just don’t continue to hurtle through space mindlessly!
There are just too many people to feed on this planet, and more and more all the time. People say it is unethical to interfere with human life, but to me it is equally unethical to crowd out and destroy all other living things on the planet, that we are supposedly ‘sharing’.