As a meat scientist, this type of fear-based marketing and labeling (from both sides) is so upsetting to see and is incredibly misleading to consumers.
The average person will look at a list like this and automatically assume the product is unhealthy.
Let me break it down.
I know my twitter following isn’t big to someone but it kind of is for #AgTwitter and I want to use it this morning to get the word out that there is NOT a shortage of meat or milk! The packers and stores are using this gear tactic to drive up prices for their gain. PLS RT.
Y’all live compacted as hell. With your vehicles, smog literally clinging over your cities, pollution and waste filling your streets and you’re really gonna blame a couple cow farts for climate change?
I smell bullshit, or wait no I don’t because the air is clear out here.
That second picture is actually a beef cow with her beef calf. Beef cows are not milked for production. Also, those baby dairy calves get fed better than I do on a daily basis. https://t.co/y8FbXDHCAO
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People would go mad if their smart phones and vehicles were replaced with typewriters and horses, so why do they push agriculturists to revert to fifty-plus year old production methods? A progressive industry is the most sustainable way to meet our needs. Think about that.