{"id":52863,"date":"2023-11-29T12:16:51","date_gmt":"2023-11-29T17:16:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52863"},"modified":"2023-11-29T12:16:51","modified_gmt":"2023-11-29T17:16:51","slug":"the-united-nations-has-a-dietary-plan-for-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52863","title":{"rendered":"The United Nations Has A Dietary Plan For America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, <a href=\"https:\/\/freebeacon.com\/national-security\/this-un-agency-wants-you-to-eat-less-meat-to-fight-climate-change-its-run-by-a-top-ccp-official\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Washington Free Beacon<\/a> posted an article about one United Nations Agency&#8217;s plan to fight climate change.<\/p>\n<p>The article reports:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The United Nations agency that is pushing wealthy nations to curb their meat consumption in the name of climate change is led by a top Chinese Communist Party official who is known for using the agency to serve Beijing.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization\u2014which counts CCP official Qu Dongyu as its director\u2014is set to release a plan next month that calls on &#8220;the world&#8217;s most-developed nations&#8221; to fight climate change by curbing &#8220;their excessive appetite for meat,&#8221;\u00a0<em>Bloomberg<\/em>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2023-11-26\/eat-less-meat-is-message-for-rich-world-in-food-s-first-net-zero-plan\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reported<\/a>\u00a0Saturday. It&#8217;s unlikely, however, that the directive will apply to China. The United Nations still considers China a developing country, and Qu himself has long faced criticism for using his U.N. post to advance Beijing&#8217;s interests.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The article explains one possible motive for the push toward eating less meat:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>A reduction in global meat production, meanwhile, could help alleviate Chinese concerns over food security and land scarcity. China is the world&#8217;s largest meat importer thanks in part to &#8220;scarcity of land for feed and forage&#8221; and &#8220;rising production costs&#8221; that have limited its production, according to a U.S. Department of Agriculture\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ers.usda.gov\/webdocs\/publications\/106999\/err-320_summary.pdf?v=2354\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">report<\/a>\u00a0published in July. China experienced large-scale food shortages in 2022, prompting protests in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cfr.org\/article\/china-increasingly-relies-imported-food-thats-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">more than a dozen cities<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In August 2023, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/aug\/29\/china-coal-plants-climate-goals-carbon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian<\/a> reported the following:<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1kas69x\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>China is approving new coal power projects at the equivalent of two plants every week, a rate energy watchdogs say is unsustainable if the country hopes to achieve its energy targets.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1kas69x\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>The government has pledged to peak emissions by 2030 and reach net zero by 2060, and in 2021 the president, Xi Jinping, promised to stop building coal powered plants abroad.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-1kas69x\" style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><strong>But after regional power crunches in 2022, China started a domestic spree of approving new projects and restarting suspended ones. In 2022 the government approved a record-breaking 106 gigawatts (GW) of new coal-fired power capacity. One gigawatt is the equivalent of a large coal power plant.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>So why is a country that is building coal plants to generate electricity at the rate of two a week complaining that Americans eat too much meat?<\/p>\n<p>It really is time for America to leave the United Nations, take over the building in New York and turn it into condominiums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, The Washington Free Beacon posted an article about one United Nations Agency&#8217;s plan to fight climate change. The article reports: The United Nations agency that is pushing wealthy nations to curb their meat consumption in the name of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/?p=52863\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[7850,7278,13268,1031,55,16065,6399,9385,223,4344],"class_list":["post-52863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-america","tag-chinese","tag-chinese-communist-party","tag-climate","tag-climate-change","tag-meat-consumption","tag-the-guardian","tag-the-washington-free-beacon","tag-united-nations","tag-washington-free-beacon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52863"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52863\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52864,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52863\/revisions\/52864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightwinggranny.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}