Food lawyer: Climate Warriors Have a Cow

“Dutch livestock farmers are increasingly outraged” over a 2019 court ruling that’s forcing “thousands of them out of the business — by design,” reports Reason’s Baylen Linnekin. “The ruling ordered the Dutch government to cut greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent by 2020”: nearly double the cuts since 1990, within just a year. (It failed.) That led to a government plan to “radically” reduce livestock, sparking farmers’ “fury.” Activists also target meat consumption: “We are expected to believe eating meat is callous and dumb because these increasingly vocal and bold activists tell us so,” yet “meat is no less valid or deserving of protection than any other food.” “Climate change is a problem”; “banning meat is not the answer.”