The Meat Market's Greenhouse Gas Emissions

categories: Climate, Corporate Kneebiters, Livestock

Published August 04, 2009 @ 08:38PM PT

It sticks its tongue out; by Laenulfean Dear The Meat Industry,

When you complain on one hand that your business will be hurt by country of origin labeling laws, and on the other that it's unfair to criticize the US meat industry because of greenhouse gas emissions from meat production in other countries, it makes you sound like you need Ritalin.

In other news, cows need to eat grass, bozos.

Kissy the face,
n

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Dear Ms. Chart,

To compare Country of Origin Labeling and greenhouse gas emissions is comparing apples and oranges, at best. We opposed country of original labeling laws because it served as an impediment to trade and raised the cost of doing business for meat companies and the cost of eating meat for consumers. As for greenhouse gas emissions, the U.S. meat industry is one of the most efficient on the planet at producing our products, which means our environmental footprint is much smaller than that of our competitors. These two issues have nothing in common.

Thomas Super

American Meat Institute

tsuper@meatami.com

Posted by Thomas Super on 08/05/2009 @ 08:30AM PT
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Natasha is an amateur eater with severe snarkolepsy and a c. 2002 blogging habit. She had a fabulous time studying ecological agriculture and policy at The Evergreen State College, and even did her homework while writing at various times for pacificviews.org, boomantribune.com, and mydd.com.