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The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) recently released a report addressing meat and dairy alternatives to help combat climate change. The report recommends that wealthier nations, including the U.S., cut their meat consumption while advocating for developing countries to increase meat production.
Beef lover and Straight Arrow News contributor Newt Gingrich argues that the UNEP is just another multinational organization with a lot of fluff. Gingrich argues that the recommendations for countries like the U.S. to eat and produce less beef have no teeth and ultimately harm the U.S. taxpayer.
Now, you have to ask yourself, “Was this a gathering of vegetarians? Would they advocate more tofu? What exactly is on their head?“
But the whole notion that we’ve created these multinational organizations — they go to fancy places, in this case to Dubai, stay in fancy hotels, usually at least four-star because, after all, you don’t become an international bureaucrat in order to suffer. They gather around in conference rooms where they know they’re really important because they’re in the conference room. And they sip tea or drink coffee or have something stronger, and they chat in meaningful ways using very advanced words. And then they render their judgments, which, by the way, they may or may not personally follow. So that’s why you have, for example, all of these celebrities who are in favor of lowering carbon, unless, of course, it’s a private jet, in which case, they take the private jet because, after all, there has to be some kind of offset they can claim. They don’t take seriously their own rules as they apply them to them.
So now you have, of course, the American, the Australian, and the Brazilian cattle growers — these are the three great cattle-growing countries. And they’re staring in disbelief. I have a hunch that nobody at McDonald’s headquarters in Chicago is sitting around going, “Oh my God, what are we going to do if people decide to listen to the United Nations and not eat beef? Could this be the beginning of the end of the quarter pounder?“
