New York Mayor Eric Adams announced a plan to lower the city’s carbon footprint to fight climate change.
A report from the mayor’s office shows that 20% of the Big Apple’s greenhouse gas emissions are tied to food — the third largest source behind buildings, which add 34% of emissions in the city, and transportation, which contributes 22%. Adams’ plan to cut food-related emissions by 33% in just seven years- and meat is on the chopping block.
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Adams defended the proposal on Monday at the city’s Health & Hospitals Culinary Center in Brooklyn.
“Food impacts everything. It impacts our physical health, our mental health, our way of life, and today we are saying to New Yorkers, and really to the globe, that it impacts our planet. One in every five metric tons of carbon dioxide our city emits comes from food. But all food is not created equal. The vast majority of food that is contributing to our emission crisis lies in meat and dairy products.”
He's a vegetarianor vegan pushing it on others? 'All food is not created equal…We all know a plant based diet is better for you… I'm living proof of that' NYC Mayor Eric Adams declares war on meat and dairy: https://t.co/lAXNTdvi6z
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It should be noted that meat and animal products are among the most nutrient-dense and bioavailable foods for humans. Nonetheless, Adams, who lives on a plant-based diet, is committed to cutting its consumption for climate change.
One of his policies reduces the amount of meat served in NYC’s Health=Hospitals system by making plant-based meals the default option for patients. The policies also set upper limits for all city agencies regarding how much meat can be served. Adams refused to agree to hold the changes steady and may alter them again to be even stricter in the future.
The mayor also said he’s “challenging” the city’s private sector to reduce food-related emissions by 25% by 2030. Whether this challenge is merely verbal or will involve incentives or disincentives to help accomplish that goal is unclear.
One administration official noted that those options would also be explored. Peter Sikora, the climate campaigns director at New York Communities for Change, explained to the New York Daily News that while this policy was a “good, incremental step,” it was just the beginning.
Sikora suggested going after private entities more directly to prevent them from providing meat to consumers.
“On some level, where’s the beef of dealing with the private sector aspect of this? The rubber hits the road with the vast quantities of food that are served and consumed by the private sector and this does nothing on that.”
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How? Sikora suggested using its pension funds to disinvest from businesses that aren’t taking to the new order enthusiastically enough and are too slow to reduce the food production and consumption their business model relies on.
“What needs to happen here are requirements on the larger entities that the city can regulate and move. That’s the kind of politics and approach to social policy that the mayor seems really averse to because it requires him standing up to big corporations.”
For now, Admas is attempting to impose his policy on businesses in a more voluntary, conciliatory capacity. Still, he did not swear off turning the canons on them as Sikora suggests down the road.
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