Activist groups and corporate startups have descended on the two-week climate summit in Egypt to heap pressure on the hundreds of global policy makers there over the world’s love affair with meat and its role in warming.
And researchers fear the impact may be greater, after recent efforts to measure emissions at individual US farms — by, say, flying a methane-detecting plane over them — showed them churning out much more than estimated. But cutting meat and dairy output is not yet on the agenda for governments — many of which give billions of dollars to livestock farmers in subsidies. Instead, they are advancing policies to reduce the emissions using feed additives that make animals less gassy, and technology that sucks up the methane wafting off manure heaps.“This can never be the way to net zero,” said Max Weiss, a campaigner at the Plant Based Treaty, a global activist group promoting a meat-free diet.
“When you enter the conference, you have the scent of grilled animal meat in your nose. Which is dystopian to me,” Mr. Weiss said. “We think people want to eat meat,” said Josh Tetrick, the CEO of GOOD Meat, who was serving up his company’s cell-based chicken during an event on COP27’s sidelines.Mr. Tetrick’s company already sells small amounts of “cultivated chicken” to restaurants in Singapore and is investing in production capacity in the United States in a bet that regulators will approve its sale there.
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