{"id":967229,"date":"2021-11-04T11:29:45","date_gmt":"2021-11-04T15:29:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=967229"},"modified":"2021-11-04T11:29:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-04T15:29:48","slug":"media-finally-calls-out-hypocrisy-of-climate-conference-over-the-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/media-finally-calls-out-hypocrisy-of-climate-conference-over-the-food\/","title":{"rendered":"Media Finally Calls Out Hypocrisy Of Climate Conference \u2013 Over The Food"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmedia-finally-calls-out-hypocrisy-of-climate-conference-over-the-food%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=967229&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Media outlets are finally calling out the hypocrisy of the United Nations\u2019 climate conference, but not for the obvious reasons like the amount of carbon emissions produced by world leader\u2019s using individual private jets to fly around the world to attend.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, media outlets have focused on the amount of meat available to attendees. The Hill <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/equilibrium-sustainability\/579971-cop26-criticized-for-its-environmentally-unfriendly-menu\">reported<\/a> that environmental activists have criticized the menu for the meat it served, some of which \u201ccome with large carbon footprints.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From the Hill:<\/p>\n<p><em>The menu for the high-level climate conference was released online at&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arecipeforchange.co.uk\/\">arecipeforchange.co.uk<\/a>, listing the carbon footprint next to each item.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Organizers included a note on the menu saying the average meal in the U.K., where the conference is being held, has a carbon footprint of&nbsp;1.7 kg CO2e and said this number should be brought down to&nbsp;0.5 kg CO2e in order to meet Paris Climate Agreement goals.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Despite this, many menu items exceeded this carbon footprint&nbsp;\u2014 the summit\u2019s haggis dish&nbsp;recorded a carbon footprint of 3.4 kg CO2e, twice that of an average meal in the U.K.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The conference had a separate menu for burgers, half of&nbsp;of which had nearly the same carbon footprint as the haggis, though the other burgers were listed as having carbon footprints significantly below the national British average.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Sun <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/11\/03\/menu-at-uns-climate-conference-is-full-of-carbon-heavy-food\/\">reported<\/a> that the carbon footprint for one $17 burger \u201caccounts for a whopping 3.9kg C02 equivalent emissions (ee) figure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/energy\/greenhouse-gas-equivalencies-calculator\">United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)<\/a>&nbsp;that\u2019s the same amount of carbon released by an average car driving nearly 10 miles,\u201d the outlet added.<\/p>\n<p>Joel Scott-Halkes, spokesperson for the activist organization Animal Rebellion, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bigissue.com\/news\/environment\/cop26-haggis-the-most-unsustainable-dish-at-glasgow-climate-conference\/\">told<\/a> The Big Issue magazine that the \u201cutterly reckless inclusion of meat, seafood and dairy on the COP26 catering menu is a damning indictment of the UK government\u2019s utter failure to grasp the root cause of the climate crisis.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Scott-Halkes also tweeted: \u201cThis is the equivalent of serving cigarettes at a lung cancer conference. Only when governments grasp animal agriculture\u2019s central role in the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/climate?src=hashtag_click\">#climate<\/a>&nbsp;crisis will we stand a chance of solving it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Complaining about the menu at the climate conference is nothing new. In 2018, Huffpost published <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffpost.com\/entry\/un-climate-crisis-menu-meat_n_5c0e2ecfe4b0a606a9aa5a3a\">an article<\/a> titled, \u201cThe Meat-Heavy Menu At The UN\u2019s Climate Conference Shows Shocking Hypocrisy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe meat-laden menu at COP24 is an insult to the work of the conference,\u201d Stephanie Feldstein, director of the population and sustainability program at the Center for Biological Diversity, told the outlet at the time. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford to be serving up cheeseburgers at climate conferences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Media outlets are finally calling out the hypocrisy of the United Nations\u2019 climate conference, but not for the obvious reasons like the amount of carbon emissions produced by world leader\u2019s using individual private jets to fly around the world to attend.Instead, media outlets have focused on the amount of meat available to attendees. The Hill reported that environmental activists have criticized the menu for the meat it served, some of which \u201ccome with large carbon footprints.\u201dFrom the Hill:The menu for the high-level climate conference was released online at\u00a0arecipeforchange.co.uk, listing the carbon footprint next to each item.Organizers included a note on the menu saying the average meal in the U.K., where the conference is being held, has a carbon footprint of\u00a01.7 kg CO2e and said this number should be brought down to\u00a00.5 kg CO2e in order to meet Paris Climate Agreement goals.Despite this, many menu items exceeded this carbon footprint\u00a0\u2014 the summit\u2019s haggis dish\u00a0recorded a carbon footprint of 3.4 kg CO2e, twice that of an average meal in the U.K.The conference had a separate menu for burgers, half of\u00a0of which had nearly the same carbon footprint as the haggis, though the other burgers were listed as having carbon footprints significantly below the national British average.The Sun reported that the carbon footprint for one $17 burger \u201caccounts for a whopping 3.9kg C02 equivalent emissions (ee) figure.\u201d\u201cAccording to the\u00a0United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)\u00a0that\u2019s the same amount of carbon released by an average car driving nearly 10 miles,\u201d the outlet added.Joel Scott-Halkes, spokesperson for the activist organization Animal Rebellion, told The Big Issue magazine that the \u201cutterly reckless inclusion of meat, seafood and dairy on the COP26 catering menu is a damning indictment of the UK government\u2019s utter failure to grasp the root cause of the climate crisis.\u201dScott-Halkes also tweeted: \u201cThis is the equivalent of serving cigarettes at a lung cancer conference. Only when governments grasp animal agriculture\u2019s central role in the\u00a0#climate\u00a0crisis will we stand a chance of solving it.\u201dComplaining about the menu at the climate conference is nothing new. In 2018, Huffpost published an article titled, \u201cThe Meat-Heavy Menu At The UN\u2019s Climate Conference Shows Shocking Hypocrisy.\u201d\u201cThe meat-laden menu at COP24 is an insult to the work of the conference,\u201d Stephanie Feldstein, director of the population and sustainability program at the Center for Biological Diversity, told the outlet at the time. \u201cWe can\u2019t afford to be serving up cheeseburgers at climate conferences if we\u2019re going to have an honest conversation about the role of food in the climate crisis.\u201dMia MacDonald, executive director of Brighter Green, told the outlet that she was \u201cnot hugely surprised that the menu at COP24 is meat- and dairy-heavy, but it sends a strange and unhelpful message nonetheless.\u201d\u201cAt the Paris climate talks it was really hard to eat as a vegan. I kept asking myself, what\u2019s Al Gore eating? Turns out he took a packed lunch with him from his hotel each day!\u201d she added.Even as these activists focused on the food, very few others outside conservative media have noted the hypocrisy of world leaders flying across the world to an event about climate change, yet another sign that they don\u2019t view climate change as the threat they claim.The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a\u00a0member.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":126,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-967229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/126"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=967229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/967229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=967229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=967229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=967229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}