We can’t keep beating our meat…prices.
99 forwarded this article with the following message: “PUT THIS IN THE NEWSLETTER.” When 99 puts something that way, you lead with it. No questions asked. But also, it’s a really important story. As we covered in our climate change episodes, particularly A (Mostly) Vegan World, reducing emissions from the protein industry is paramount to hitting global emissions targets. It simply cannot happen without curtailing the sheer amount of animal protein we produce. But as this article points out, that’s kind of hard to do when we keep incentivizing people to eat meat by subsidizing the meat industry.
From the article:
“The FAO called for countries like the United States to reduce meat consumption to combat global warming. Meanwhile, the U.S. Farm Bill spends billions to make high-emissions meat cheap for consumers and profitable for factory farms. The policy implications are clear: For the U.S. to live up to its climate commitments, it must stop subsidizing factory farming.”
The Hill: The United Nations wants the US to eat less meat — try telling that to Congress
The biggest threat to Israel: Bibi.
Western coverage of the genocide in Gaza is woefully misguided. And, as usual, the coverage is dissipating. Netanyahu recently announced that the IDF would be carrying out a ground assault in Rafah in Southern Gaza. This area is now the temporary home of more than half of the population in Gaza now that the north has been all but decimated. There is simply nowhere for Palestinians to go and he knows this. Despite calls from all over the world to halt the atrocity, Netanyahu appears determined to finish what he started when he first came to power.
From the article:
“In the West Bank, Netanyahu maintained security cooperation with the Palestinian Authority, which became Israel’s de facto policing and social services subcontractor, and he encouraged Qatar to fund Gaza’s Hamas government. ‘Whoever opposes a Palestinian state must support delivery of funds to Gaza because maintaining separation between the PA in the West Bank and Hamas in Gaza will prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state,’ Netanyahu told his party’s parliamentary caucus in 2019. It is a statement that has come back to haunt him.”
Foreign Affairs: Israel’s Self-Destruction: Netanyahu, the Palestinians, and the Price of Neglect
Hopefully the White House has a memory care unit.
The Special Counsel report on Biden’s handling of sensitive and classified information cleared the President of any wrongdoing. Sort of. Back in the day, there was an infamous gangster in New York named Vincent “The Chin” Gigante who wandered his neighborhood in a robe, slippers and sporting a scraggly beard. He was playing a long con to prove to the courts that he was mentally incapable of standing trial. Dubbed “The Oddfather” by the New York media, The Chin carried on the ruse for decades. The feds weren’t buying it and eventually his scheme came unraveled. That’s basically Biden in reverse. Walking around acting all normal when, in reality, he’s losing his marbles. His aides even refused an offer for a prime time interview before The Super Bowl because they’re so concerned about his ability to stay focused. It certainly doesn’t help that he keeps mentioning his relationship with dead world leaders.
From the article:
“In the report, Mr. Hur said the memory of the then-80-year-old president was so hazy during five hours of interviews over two days that it would be difficult to convince jurors that Mr. Biden knew his handling of the documents was wrong. Mr. Hur predicted in the report that if the president were charged, his lawyers ‘would emphasize these limitations in his recall.’
“In part because of Mr. Biden’s memory, Mr. Hur declined to recommend charging the president for what the report described as willful retention of national security secrets, including some documents shared by the president that implicated ‘sensitive intelligence sources and methods.’”
New York Times: Special Counsel’s Report Puts Biden’s Age and Memory in the Spotlight
