New York to Track Residents’ Food Purchases and Place “Caps on Meat” Served by Public Institutions
TOPICS:Brenda BalettiClimate ChangeFood FreedomMeatNew YorkSurveillance MAY 18, 2023
By Brenda Baletti, Ph.D., The Defender
New York City will begin tracking the carbon footprint of household food consumption and putting caps on how much red meat can be served in public institutions as part of a sweeping initiative to achieve a 33% reduction in carbon emissions from food by 2030.
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Mayor Eric Adams and representatives from the Mayor’s Office of Food Policy and Mayor’s Office of Climate & Environmental Justice announced the new programs last month at a Brooklyn culinary center run by NYC Health + Hospitals, the city’s public healthcare system, just before Earth Day.
At the event, the Mayor’s Office -f Climate & Environmental Justice shared a new chart to be included in the city’s annual greenhouse gas inventory that publicly tracks the carbon footprint created by household food consumption, the Gothamist reported.
The city already produced emissions data from energy use, transportation and waste as part of the annual inventory. But the addition of household food consumption data is part of a partnership that London and New York launched with American Express, C40 Cities and EcoData lab, Commissioner Rohit Aggarwala from the NYC Department of Environmental Protection announced at the event.
Aggarwala — who founded Google smart city subsidiary Sidewalk Labs — celebrated the expanded data collection as forging “a new standard for what cities have to do” and a new way to shape policy.
He said the inventory also will measure greenhouse gas pollution from the production and consumption of other consumer goods like apparel, whether or not those items are made in New York City. It also tracks emissions tied to services like air travel and healthcare.
Will “meat caps” really lower emissions and improve health?
Mayor Adams’ announcement about the C40 Good Food Cities declaration suggests the city will be serving less meat in the future to meet its 2030 goals. Officials from his administration did not specify the targets or the standards that would be used, but did indicate there would be “caps on meat.”
Kate MacKenzie, executive director of the Mayor’s Office of Food Policy, explained that the standards they are developing “set maximums for the number of times that red meat can be served each week and really introduces the plant-based proteins and a floor for that.”
“So it’s really the caps on meat,” she said, adding that the city has been moving in this direction already.
New York already instituted “meatless Mondays” as a joint initiative by Adams and former Mayor Bill De Blasio in 2019. “Vegan Friday” began in public schools last year, where children are served food such as pre-packaged burritos that received reviews such as “nasty” and “sad” on the Brian Lehrer WNYC call-in show.
Meals in the city’s hospitals have been made vegetarian by default, although people can request meat if they prefer.
New York spends roughly $300 million buying food for schools, homeless shelters, hospitals and prisons each year. According to the NYC Food Policy Dashboard, the city spends only about 1% of its food budget on “ruminate meats.”
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That'll work! After all, look how much good the last6 government interference in mandating nutrtion did. Resulted in an ongoing genuine epidemic of diabetes and obesity and I'm pretty surecombined with the poison darts they keep aiming at our children, many disorders and diseases. I just finished "The Great Plant-Based Diet Con" which I recommend very highly as well as the doc "Kiss the Ground". "Beyond Impossible" is another really good documentary on the hypocrisy of this whole agenda (which is probably to really just further destroy our health) .