The war on meat is in full swing as far-left environmental groups engage in a coordinated effort to smear proponents of sustainable livestock as industry bogeymen seduced by corporate greed.
In October 2022, a coalition of over 1,000 scientists signed a declaration stressing that the optimal nutrition delivered by a meat-based diet was vital in alleviating world hunger.
The “Dublin Declaration of Scientists on the Societal Role of Livestock,” which advocates for a more “balanced view of the future of animal agriculture,” was written to push back against a highly funded, globally coordinated effort to discredit animal agriculture as antithetical to human health and environmental sustainability. “Livestock systems,” the coalition wrote, “are too precious to society to become the victim of simplification, reductionism or zealotry.”
The commonsense declaration, however, has now become the target of well-funded “green” advocacy groups masquerading environmental activism as critical journalism, primarily through The Guardian, one of Europe’s most influential papers.
The Guardian has become a conduit for far-left environmental interests to air opposition research. The paper shares some of the same funding sources as an animal activist group called “Sentient.” Initially established in 2018 as “Sentient Media,” the group is a 501(c)(3) advocacy organization with a mission to publish “stories and solutions to explain factory farms and their effect on climate, animals, public health, politics and more.” Founding donors include animal welfare groups such as the Järvenpää Foundation, the Effective Altruism Animal Welfare Fund, and the Open Philanthropy Project.
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