It was reported last month that 14 cities in the United States were intending to outlaw beef. Yes, you read that right.
The news, which mostly circulated on conservative news websites, stated that cities hope to achieve zero meat consumption, zero dairy consumption, three new clothing items per person per year, zero private vehicle ownership, and one short return airline flight every three years by 2030. Is this because of cow farts?
Almost 100 towns around the world have already signed on to the agreement. This covers Austin, Boston, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New Orleans, New York City, Philadelphia, Phoenix, Portland, San Francisco, Washington, D.C., and Seattle in the United States.
Not only are they restricting beef, but they will make it so that you cannot drive a vehicle outside your assigned zone or you will get fined.
This sounds an awful lot like the UN’s Agenda 21. Some on the inside refer to these cities as Smart Cities. Others refer to them as “15-minute cities” because the goal is that everything you need should be no farther than 15 minutes of walking distance.
Remember, it was reported that the billionaires wanted to turn Lahaina in Maui County into a smart city. Many believe that when the people of Maui said no to selling them their land, they set fire to the town and killed 97 people, including children.
VISIT OUR YOUTUBE CHANNELThe lying fact-checkers on the Left have already spoken, but Lahaina, like the rest of Maui County, follows the Maui County General Plan 2030. There’s that year again. That’s really weird. You will find it referred to 13 times in this story.
This “plan” outlines the long-term development and cultural identity of a county, which may include smart city initiatives to improve various aspects of urban life.
We did a story called “Silicon Valley Titans Behind Mysterious Mega-City Plan in Northern California!” where we got into how billionaires have been purchasing land in a northern California county in an apparent quest to establish a brand new city. It is to become a smart city. At least they purchased the land and didn’t set fire to everyone’s homes.
As expected, mainstream media sources slammed the story about banning meat as a hoax; a massive conspiracy theory, and yet another illustration of why disinformation is a menace to humanity.
“Social media post distorts climate report,” according to Politifact. “No city in the United States prohibits the sale of meat, dairy products, new clothing, or automobiles.” No one said they started the ban yet. They only said the cities “signed up” to do these things. “We could find no evidence that any U.S. cities have agreed to ban meat, dairy, new clothes, or private cars,” they add. We’ll provide the list in a bit.
Meanwhile, Snopes declared everything “false,” noting that “there is no plan for 14 U.S. cities to ban meat, dairy, and private cars by 2030.” They must not have looked very hard. “We also found no evidence that a group of U.S. cities had signed onto plans to ban such products for consumption.”
Snopes is a joke, worse than Politifact if you can believe it. They have been a left-wing site since the first days when it was run by a husband and wife team.
But when you go deeper into these assertions, you’ll notice something strange. They are playing games with words and meanings.
In their defense, they point to technical faults committed by some of the program’s detractors. However, the agenda is quite real.
The technicalities are that the cities do not intend to outright ban meat. They are attempting to reduce meat consumption, with the goal of reaching zero consumption. Yeah, and I’m Mary, Queen of Scots.
Leftists always tell you that the consequences of their really bad ideas are much softer than they are when they finally hit you.
The same is true for the other objectives. They are quite real, yet they are not outright prohibitions. Not until everyone gets used to the incrementalism of time.
Another issue is that the program that powers it is not binding. The cities involved are participating freely as part of a global alliance of mayors. For now. Can you remember when a tyrant in charge ever gave up power voluntarily? Ronald Reagan once said the hardest thing to kill is a government program.
It’s all part of the C40 Cities initiative. On its website in October 2019, it stated, “14 cities commit to sustainable food policies that will address the global climate emergency.” According to the report, “Eating a sustainable diet and avoiding food waste could cut greenhouse gas emissions from the food we eat by more than 60%.” This was part of the “Planetary Health Diet,” which it claimed “could save 11 million lives each year if universally adopted.” In addition, it claimed that “Mayors will work with their citizens to achieve a ‘Planetary Health Diet’ for all by 2030.”
I don’t know about you, but it sounds like a “meat ban” to me.
According to the C40 Cities website, “Mayors will use their procurement powers to change what kind of food cities buy, and introduce policies that make healthy, delicious, and low-carbon food affordable and accessible for all. They’ll also reduce food loss and wasted food.” They will help prevent food waste and loss. In other words, it is not a prohibition. Mayors from all throughout the United States and the world have signed on to this agenda. And they’ll use their authority in office to influence the types of foods their cities buy, as well as employ policies to push their agenda.
How does that fall under individual freedom? Outside of moving out of the cities, giving the double-barrelled finger on your exit, this is the government deciding for you what you are going to eat. Are you kidding me? What about people who can’t afford to move out and have dietary restrictions where they have to eat meat?
Where is the freedom in any of this? I thought we lived in a Constitutional republic where every citizen is protected against government tyranny.
From c40.org:
Under the C40 Good Food Cities Declaration, cities commit to:
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Align food procurement policies to the Planetary Health Diet ideally sourced from organic agriculture
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Support an overall increase of healthy plant-based food consumption in our cities by shifting away from unsustainable, unhealthy diets.
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Reduce food loss and waste by 50% from 2015 figures; and
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Work with citizens, businesses, public institutions and other organizations to develop a joint strategy for implementing these measures and achieving these goals inclusively and equitably, and incorporating this strategy into the city’s Climate Action Plan.
This is already happening on a worldwide scale. As an example, consider New York City. The same year as the C40 Cities announcement, then-New York City Mayor Bill Douglas unveiled the Green New Deal, a billion-dollar project to combat climate change.
What about people who live in these cities and don’t believe there is a climate emergency the way the watermelon people keep telling us there it?
Do they know that John F. Clauser, winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics for his work on quantum mechanics, has decided to sign the World Climate Declaration of Clintel with its central message “there is no climate emergency”? I don’t think the watermelon people would care.
I call them the watermelon people because they are green on the outside and communist red on the inside.
And what does this $14 billion green new contract actually entail? “It also means converting every single vehicle in our city fleet to electric and renewable fuels. Going carbon neutral for our entire fleet means expanding our solar, which we’ve already increased sevenfold since 2013. It means cutting our beef purchases 50 percent, phasing out processed meat—a major source of our emissions.”
The current mayor of New York City, Eric Adams, was also crucial in advancing this agenda. As Brooklyn Borough President in 2017, Mr. Adams collaborated with Mr. de Blasio to launch Meatless Mondays in 15 Brooklyn schools. Two tyrants who worked together came up with a plan for the government to dictate your grocery shopping list.
In line with C40 Cities’ 2030 goals, Adams said this year that the city will set limits on the quantity of meat and dairy supplied in city institutions such as schools and prisons. They will treat the children the same as prisoners. Adams said that its public school system would no longer serve meat on Fridays. Meanwhile, the United Kingdom has prohibited the sale of new gas-powered automobiles after 2030, while France has prohibited short-haul flights “to cut carbon emissions.”
These people are nuts!
This Meatless Monday initiative was expanded in 2019 by then-Mayor de Blasio to all 1,700 public schools in New York City.
It doesn’t stop there. Mayor Adams pledged in April of this year to reduce New York City’s food-based emissions at agencies by 33% over the following seven years. To put it another way, by 2030. Exactly in line with the 2030 initiative, which we’re being told doesn’t exist.
Of course, New York City is just one of 14 cities in the United States dumb enough to have signed on to this program. It’s also not a big secret.
All the global cities partaking in the C40 Cities initiative are publicly posted on the program’s website. And many of these localities have actively pursued legislation in accordance with the agenda. This means that the fact-checkers and left-wing websites who said you were nuts for thinking this stuff is happening are all in on the lies as usual.
