Nestle Bows Out of Initiative to Reduce Dairy’s Climate Impact
The food giant has left the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, an effort to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from herds of cattle.
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Obligatory fuck nestle
I've been avoiding this criminal organization for decades and I recommend everyone else do the same.
Yeah, I had already done so for about a decade already and then they bought a brand with some of my favorite vegan products (mostly meat alternatives) some years ago and then it got real fucking personal. It's stuff I grew up with, wasn't fully vegan myself till 7 years ago but have always had vegetarians and vegans around me my whole life and they were some of the earliest really good meat alternatives here. It was already personal because of who they are and has done, is doing and will continue to do, but now it was a more direct change in my life and a fist in my gut. I still miss those products, but will never ever buy or eat them. The brand is called "Hälsans Kök" (Swedish) which translates to "kitchen of health" which is now ironic as fuck, and I just don't understand how they managed to buy it. Fuck the original owners too for selling out.
They can't reduce "Dairy's Climate Impact". The greenwashing is over, that was meant to delay changes by "moderate" regimes. With conservatives in power, the greenwashing is no longer necessary. The only significant reduction is achieved by reducing the industry, the more shrinkage, the better.
You could in theory by doing things like producing milk through precision fermentation or by altering the gut microbiome of cattle. The latter being somewhat possible through dietary changes, but not financially supported in any meaningful way.
In any case, they're not even pretending to try anymore
You can't change the cows or the microbiome in any meaningful way, the methanogens are part of the digestive and nutrient extraction process. They can play with the food and sprinkle in selective antibiotics, but that usually leads the cows suffering or just not being "productive" enough. Now if you want to give some special feed to deer to make them produce less GHGs, that would be something interesting.
Fucking ghouls
Normal evil Nestle things.
This makes me glad that I haven't bought any Nestle products since the infant formula scandal of the 80's
tfw you were raised with exclusively infant formula (with endocrine-disrupting plastic bottles) and likely are chronically ill in some part due to this company and others like it, all because of their
propagandamarketing campaigns targeting mothers and even healthcare workersI'm more surprised that they were in something good to begin with.
This won't have negative long-term consequences I'm sure
It's almost like it was pure green washing and they never had any intention of reducing greenhouse gases
I feel cooperations run our lives and soon we'll have 5 cooperations running the world like in the Alien tv show. If it's not Nestlé it someone else we have to boycott. I'm getting tired.