Dead meat: Industry faces 'ruin' if slow on adapting to climate change

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FutureofFood: The world’s meat industry must adapt to climate change and growing demand for plant-based alternatives or face 'ruin,' according to a group of investors

LONDON - The world’s meat industry must adapt to the challenges posed by climate change and growing demand for plant-based alternatives or face ruin, according to a group of investors managing $20 trillion in assets.

As a leading contributor to global carbon emissions, through deforestation and the methane produced by livestock, the meat sector faced a particularly acute risk, but has yet to act in a meaningful way, the FAIRR Initiative investor group said. Of 43 listed meat companies assessed, only two had publicly disclosed a climate-related scenario analysis, FAIRR said.

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Yep, cow farts

GoVegan

Eww.. i might be one vegan after watching all these Meat Markets.. so disgusting 🥵

Meat industry is one of the biggest reason for climate change. It is water guzzler industry. People must stop eating meat

Reuters should face ruin for all the fake news lately, geez boys find a new job.

When there is no alternative to real meat, I’ll eat whatever is available. For now, I will enjoy my real meat

geoffrey_payne Good

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No talk about how all these viruses start because of meat consumption? Adapt to that challenge folks.

Please - we just all need to stop eating animals.

MainStreamMediaistheenemy

Put a fork in it!

The meat industry in ruin is not a bad thing. It is a movement towards a global human civilization which should include kindness, not carnivorous deprivation perpetrated upon billions of other animals.

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DownloaderBot

yes, warmal colding will make people stop craving animal proteins... in your world...

lambert_pp How about starting by CloseWetMarkets how about closing all exotic meat markets out there Would kill more then 2 birds with one stone wouldn’t it

FakeNews

You mean like the climate change when the colony on Greenland established by Erik the Red in 985 became unsustainable after 400 years when the climate grew too cold for raising the grain crops? That climate change?

after all that's happened people need to rethink why the consume meat.

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