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Study: 100% of meat and dairy companies have lobbied against environmental and climate policies (medium.com)
submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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All 10 of the largest U.S. meat and dairy companies have lobbied against environmental and climate policies, resisting climate regulations, including rules on greenhouse gases and emissions reporting. This is according to a study by New York University, which examined the political influence of the 10 largest meat and dairy companies in the United States.

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[–] ImFresh3x 32 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (3 children)

I’m pretty sure this headline is impossible

Also, medium is a blog.

[–] abraxas 14 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Came here to say this. I have a friend that's a meat and dairy company, and she (yup, 1 person for-profit farm) doesn't lobby for or against shit.

That gets us under 100% already.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago (1 children)

From reading the sub heading out looks like they mean 100% of the top ten largest

They just wanted the click bait headline

[–] abraxas 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Personally, I think the moment they decided to use that picture of a cow with the headline it stopped being clickbait and started being propaganda.

And there are two reasons I know this, and can back it up.

  1. Not once do they mention small farms in the article to correct the obvious misleading nature. People who know nothing about agriculture will conclude the same thing as the headline. When an article is clickbait, the body is very clear about the truth of things. That didn't happen here. Because this is about willfully misleading readers to push them towards misinformed action.
  2. Most of the article has nothing to do with the environment or climate. Instead, it talks about animal rights, hokey diets that involve veganism to allegedly end diabetes, and how meat is supposedly bad for you.

In summary, it's anti-meat smut that leans on the usual 3-legged gishgallop, staying quick and shallow enough on all 3 topics to not draw an objection from readers on any of them.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Added to the filter! See yha never medium!