Consumers | “People in rich countries should limit their meat-eating to the equivalent of one hamburger per person per day to help stave off global warming, a study published yesterday suggests”. (The Telegraph, September 14, 2007) |
Supermarkets | “While the focus of the findings were on global agri-food businesses, Tara Garnett, coordinator of the food climate research network at Oxford University, says the responsibility for climate emissions lies across the food chain with consumers who eat the food and supermarkets who sell it, as well as manufacturers like Cargill and Tyson who produce it”. (The Guardian, December 7, 2015) |
Businesses | “While the focus of the findings were on global agri-food businesses, Tara Garnett, coordinator of the food climate research network at Oxford University, says the responsibility for climate emissions lies across the food chain with consumers who eat the food and supermarkets who sell it, as well as manufacturers like Cargill and Tyson who produce it”. (The Guardian, December 7, 2015) |
Farmers | “The UK farming sector only accounts for around 1% of the country’s total CO2 emissions, and methane emissions from UK agricultural production have fallen by 17% since 1990”. (The Guardian, November 3, 2009) |
Factory Farms or large-scale farms | “With industrial-scale farms that each house thousands of cows, the region is also at the center of a global debate about dairy’s impact on the environment. […] Globally, dairy production accounted for 2.8% of all man-made climate-warming gases in 2005”. (New York Times, May 1, 2015) |
Governments | “Zohra Bouamra-Mechemache, a co-author of the French study, readily acknowledged that the proposed carbon tax on beef has no chance of becoming reality, “not even in Europe” and certainly not in the United States. Our politicians continue to regard the beef industry as, well, a sacred cow”. (New York Times, March 18, 2018) |