Your food is racist

“A report published in the Journal of Industrial Ecology claims that white people’s eating habits are contributing more to climate change than their black and Latino counterparts.”

Penny Starr, writing in Breitbart this morning, has found yet another whacky call from academics who are ashamed of their civilization. Yes, they say that white people’s eating habits are destroying the world. The New York Post says:

Data showed that whites produced an average of 680 kilograms of the CO2 each year, attributable to food and drink, whereas Latinx individuals produced 640 kilograms, and blacks 600.

They also found the diets of white people required 328,000 liters of water on average per year. Latinx used just 307,000 liters, and blacks 311,800. Both black and Latinx individuals used more land per capita with 1,770 and 1,710 square meters per year, respectively than white people with just 1,550. Nevertheless, white people still made the greatest overall contribution to climate change.

Without actually reading the report (which I refuse to do) I believe I can say that this is another example of trying to knife the data into submission in order to promote an agenda. To begin with, even if we take the numbers they’ve generated at face value, the difference between the CO2 production of whites vs. latinx [what is the “x” for?] humans is less than 6% — hardly large enough to foment radical changes under penalty of law.

Secondly, there’s no indication these numbers are controlled for calories consumed. It’s widely known that cultures eat different amounts of food, which obviously generates different amounts of waste product.

Of course, the report wraps its recommendations in swaddling words of babbledyguck extraordinaire, the better to cloak itself in the mantle of scientific authority. I mean, just read this (if you can)!

Our findings suggest that obtaining data with the intention of building consensus across sociodemographic lines overcomes barriers in the understanding phase, leading to increased social receptivity for many planning and managing phase processes. Specifically, we find that identifying and developing leaders who possess the cognitive and interpersonal capacity to manage many variables and stakeholders is key to assessing and selecting adaptation options in the planning phase.

We also propose using government programming to encourage environmentally friendly food purchasing behavior. Then, we discuss how our proposals could be used in adaptation feasibility and evaluation activities in the managing phase. In all, these findings facilitate the development of improved climate change adaptation and policy by satisfying the understanding phase of the climate change adaptation framework, establishing a cross‐disciplinary methodological approach to addressing socioecological problems, and providing useful FEW impact data for FEW nexus and climate change researchers.

Good Lord. Perhaps the goal is to just make us white folk commit suicide-by-word-salad and thus solve the problem? I know that reading that made my head want to explode. Whatever it means, it certainly sounds ominous.

“Potatoes, beef, apples, and milk are some of the worst offenders,”  the New York Post reported.

I guess I should be happy that they picked on vegans, too.