All 10 of the largest U.S. meat and dairy companies have lobbied against environmental and climate policies, resisting climate regulations…

All 10 of the largest U.S. meat and dairy companies have lobbied against environmental and climate policies, resisting climate regulations, including rules on greenhouse gases and emissions reporting. This is according to a study by New York University, which examined the political influence of the 10 largest meat and dairy companies in the United States.

  • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1728·
    1 year ago

    100% of the top 10 meat and dairy companies.

    That should be in the title—otherwise it implies that every family dairy in the country has its own team of lobbyists.

    • roguetrick@kbin.social
      297·
      1 year ago

      Closer to the truth though. Most are part of organizations that include lobbyists that would oppose anything that negatively impacts the industry. I don’t find that particularly nefarious of course.

      • AbouBenAdhem@lemmy.worldEnglish
        418·
        1 year ago

        It’s not that the title isn’t still mostly true—it’s that the impossible statement discredits the rest of the article.

        • 9point6@lemmy.world
          273·
          1 year ago

          Precisely this, if you’ve got a point to make, don’t sensationalise the headline, it only makes it easy for people to discredit and ignore without even reading the article.

        • abraxas
          1·
          1 year ago

          …and that the rest of the article has virtually nothing to do with the environment or lobbying.

    • Venutianxspring@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      253·
      1 year ago

      The title is misleading, however the top companies take up such a huge market share that it might as well be a true statement. I know there are companies trying to make some difference and I hate media sensationalism

          • abraxas
            2·
            1 year ago

            For more context for you and @[email protected], this is fairly emergent.

            The dairy industry has been a loss-industry for a few decades thanks to pro-big-ag government intervention. Very few farms are able to keep from consolidating because of that.

            It’s a mass-scale hostile takeover, and THAT is a much more meaningful headline than us forgetting about the smaller farms that fight to prevent this whole thing from becoming a panopoly

    • TH1NKTHRICE@lemmy.ca
      62·
      1 year ago

      And it would imply companies that make lab-grown meat and animal products, which are often companies formed explicitly in support of environmental sustainability goals, also.