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Oh no! Who could've known this? What's next? Oil companies lobbying against environmental and climate policies?
Don't worry, the headline is demonstrably false.
Well it appears to be the top 10 companies, so it is almost certainly quite close to 100%. Still not 100% though so it's wrong of course, there's no point saying something incorrect even if it's pretty close to the truth.
Not really. Small farmers generally couldn't care less about lobbying, and represent over 90% of the meat and dairy farms in the US. Literally, they cherry-picked Big Ag and the clickbait headline extrapolated conclusions about a completely different demographic.
The headline is clickbait. They are phrasing it as 100% because they mean all 10 of the companies they investigated lobbied against climate change.
As I replied elsewhere, I'd rather use the word "propaganda". The article isn't about the environment at all. It's about throwing a bunch of reasons at the reader to become vegan. And clickbait headlines always put the full story in the body, but it continues to leave out the fact that 90% of the meat and dairy industry (the non-big-ag) isn't represented in their 100% figure.