Paul McCartney on COP30: "Serving meat at a climate summit is like handing out cigarettes at a cancer prevention conference"
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Paul McCartney has urged COP30 to go vegetarian, saying serving meat there is “like handing out cigarettes at a cancer prevention conference”.
  • dandelion (she/her)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    6 hours ago

    feels a bit ironic to urge for making the conference vegetarian, if the critique is that animal agriculture is killing the planet and serving animal products sends the wrong message, then continuing to serve just some of them is like advocating for handing out smokeless tobacco products rather than cigarettes at a cancer conference…

    yeah, it’s maybe better, but … not by much, right?

    I guess vegetarian would be demonstrably better than including meat, but dairy and eggs are produced the same way with similar climate footprints as meat, no?

    not to play purity politics, better is still better - just enjoying the irony I guess