Lesson for teenagers included how cattle’s methane emissions contribute to climate crisis, but it was then scrapped
A beef industry-funded effort to teach teenagers about cattle’s climate impact was quietly scrapped following backlash from some ranchers, who disputed the premise that cows contribute to global heating.
The episode is the latest example of the livestock industry’s decades-long battle to determine what US children learn about cows and the climate.
The American Farm Bureau Foundation for Agriculture (AFBFA) and its Food and Agriculture Center for Science Education produce a free science curriculum used by around 1.2m students across more than 100 school districts nationwide.
So much for Bovine University
Holy fuck when you look like an asshole compared to the fucking factory farming companies, you are truly a magnificent asshole.
Genuinely, farmers here in the states are such regressive fuckwits, it beggars belief. I know there are exceptions to the rule, but seriously, I honestly do hope that all of these willfully ignorant imbeciles get absolutely economically crushed, because they deserve it.
They are such a small demographic, and then they get surprised when the rest of Americans don’t want to rally around them politically.
A beef industry-funded effort to teach teenagers about cattle’s climate impact was quietly scrapped following backlash from some ranchers, who disputed the premise that cows contribute to global heating.
Oh so their day job is cattle ranching but they moonlight as climate scientists?
No one gets to dispute provable scientific facts, unless they have supporting evidence. And “I dispute this because it’s bad for my business” is not evidence.
We have a constitution, and it’s first amendment is nice and strong at protecting our right to disagree with scientists or even just spread disinformation to further our goals.
