Anti-meat activists link meat consumption and climate change

Anti-meat activists link meat consumption and climate change

Andy Curliss, CEO of the North Carolina Pork Council

Anti-meat activists are using concerns over climate change to spread their message. 

Andy

Curliss, CEO of the North Carolina Pork Council, studies the tactics being used

by anti-meat groups. He says their latest efforts are focused on linking meat

consumption and climate change.

“They

really look at the climate change issue as a movement that has caught fire,”

Curliss says. “They’re trying to latch on to the movement of the day and attach

their issue to that—much like attaching an ornament to a Christmas tree.”

Curliss

is also watching the tactics being used by the companies producing “fake meat”. 

He says their ultimate goal to displace meat in American diets.

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