To be fair, all these headlines about Biden limiting your meat consumption are misleading. He's never said anything about limiting meat. This all comes from a single study that was done by some college in Michigan that proposed the idea. They said if you limited meat to roughly one burger per month, it could cut agricultural emissions by 50%. This is the statistic everyone is repeating without context:
"Americans may have to cut their red meat consumption by a whopping 90 percent and cut their consumption of other animal based foods in half...Gradually making those changes by 2030 could see diet-related greenhouse gas emissions reduced by 50 percent, according to a study by Michigan University's Center for Sustainable Systems...To do that, it would require Americans to only consume about four pounds of red meat per year, or 0.18 ounces per day...It equates to consuming roughly one average sized burger per month."
Interesting enough, the "problem" revolves around cows releasing so much methane (farts & burps) into the atmosphere, however, they had this figured out way back in 2014 by introducing "fart-catching backpacks" for cows:
Finally, why is nobody talking about pork or dairy in all this, since those operations would also need to reduce emissions according to the Green New Deal?
To be fair, all these headlines about Biden limiting your meat consumption are misleading. He's never said anything about limiting meat. This all comes from a single study that was done by some college in Michigan that proposed the idea. They said if you limited meat to roughly one burger per month, it could cut agricultural emissions by 50%. This is the statistic everyone is repeating without context:
"Americans may have to cut their red meat consumption by a whopping 90 percent and cut their consumption of other animal based foods in half...Gradually making those changes by 2030 could see diet-related greenhouse gas emissions reduced by 50 percent, according to a study by Michigan University's Center for Sustainable Systems...To do that, it would require Americans to only consume about four pounds of red meat per year, or 0.18 ounces per day...It equates to consuming roughly one average sized burger per month."
Interesting enough, the "problem" revolves around cows releasing so much methane (farts & burps) into the atmosphere, however, they had this figured out way back in 2014 by introducing "fart-catching backpacks" for cows: