Are there infiltrators of the livestock lobby in the environmental organizations?. A new collective is created, indignant rebelswhat denounces the livestock lobby in environmental groupsfollowing a scandal in the group Scientific Rebellion Spain.
The influence of Livestock lobby in the world It is well known, although not enough, and there is numerous documentation on how it has managed to censor United Nations committees and their reports, such as those of the IPCC and FAO itself. But the most scandalous part remained to be revealed: how These lobbies infiltrate the social fabric and influence the environmental movements themselves..
In the last 3 months a scandal in the ecosocial and climate collective Scientific Rebellion Spain, branch of Extinction Rebellion Spain, which has revealed the way in which lobbies like the rancher co-opt environmental movements and establish opaque dictatorships within movements that claim to be horizontal and assembly-oriented.
The story begins when in April of this year, through the intervention of some activists and theorists, it was possible to introduce the problem of livestock and food in the Manifesto of the International Scientific Rebellion Campaign Spain 2024.
What science says: that even more than fossil fuels Food of animal origin is the main source of climate change, mass extinctions, global pollution, water depletion, human health problems, inequality, and extreme animal abuse. The scientific community, led by the IPCC and FAO, considers that transition to plant-based diets is the most urgent measure in the face of a climate crisis that leads us to a imminent ecosocial collapse due to criminal inaction of governments. This means ending the livestock subsidies and other animal exploitation industries, and subsidize the transition to plant-based diets.
Are there infiltrators from the livestock lobby in environmental organizations?
In contrast to this scientific consensus, there is a minority and controversial literature, which, as occurs with the fossil fuel impact denierstries to promote the denialism and confusion on the impact of food of animal origin, falsifying its image with a very serious and criminal greenwashing. With the difference that In the case of food, there is much more confusion than with fossil fuels.
It is accumulated decades of confusion promoted by interest groups with the connivance of governments, together with the reluctance of people to question their diet, and the lethal alliance of the environmental movement With the “field” taken over by ranchers, we are at least 3 decades late in addressing this key issue.
This perhaps underlies the endless controversy that was raised after the aforementioned manifesto was published, with a group of defenders of extensive livestock farming attacking it in a storm and trying to have the manifesto censored after it was published.
To resolve this issue, several fellow theorists and activists carried out a compendium of scientific literature that they made available to the group, to begin a process, agreed upon in the general meetings of the group, of contrasting it, in order to clarify What should be the consensus of the group? about the topic. But this process has been blocked scandalously by the group of pro-livestock people of the collective, which has culminated in the expulsion unilateral and authoritarian on July 26 and 29, of the two colleagues who managed the debate and who most actively fought for the consensus scientific literature.
As a result of this, these companions, with the support of some others, have created a new collective called Rebeldes Indignadaswhose main purpose, but not the only one, is to fight against livestock lobby (and fishing, poultry and fish farmers) in the environmental movements and reveal their hidden plots.
sayings networks They are made up of ranchers and former ranchers who work within the movements themselves, scientists who, paid by the lobby or by governments and entities related to it, develop scientific literature aimed at disinformationother members, spokespersons and leaders of these movements who for convenience do not want to touch this sensitive issue, and a majority base that does not question it either due to the confusion that reigns and the reluctance to question their eating habits.
The group announces new reports and upcoming actions revealing more scandals about how the livestock-fishing lobby co-opts the environmental movements.