Strong suspicion that this whole trend has been beef industry influenced and or funded. Especially since they quite often decide to tout beef tallow (somehow as “healthy”) instead of a non-seed based oil like olive oil, avocado oil, etc.
For some context of the other things the beef industry has done before:
Using checkoff money, NCBA [National Cattlemen’s Beef Association] has developed what it has called a “Digital Command Center” – a sophisticated online monitoring system that tracks media outlets and social media for more than 200 beef-related topics. Hosted in Denver in a space that “looks like a military operations center combined with the TV section at an electronics retailer”, according to a recent Cattlemen’s Beef Board mailer sent to ranchers, the command center alerts members of NCBA’s issues management and media relations team whenever stories or online chatter rise above a certain threshold. It’s staffed 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, with personnel redundancies built in to make sure someone’s always watching.
I would not be the least surprised if we were to find out decades later there were Big Tobacco like efforts to suppress, as much as possible, all the health-related issues with many of the things pushed as the Standard American Diet (SAD). And not just for beef: other meats, dairy, and eggs. Everyone should bear in mind, especially when they have found some random Internet doctor that is claiming that a bullshit diet like the carnivore diet is “good for you”, there was a time when (compromised) doctors would claim that smoking was “good for you”, too. I would not be surprised if we found very sus funding for prominent people pitching the bro science…
This notion of beef tallow as a health food, though…LOL. Reminds me of the “paleo” people that were consuming massive quantities of bacon as some kind of health food. 🤣
Seems like many people will do nearly anything to justify eating things they already eat and want to keep eating…I’ve noticed many people on the “paleo” diet still consuming massive quantities of dairy even if that was supposedly something they should cut out of their diet. I suspect many on the paleo diet just wanted a permission structure to eat more meat and declare themselves “paleo”.
Agree with this but for full disclosure I am vegan. I think though there is at least some beef industry money behind the “anti seed money, carnivore diet, eat raw meat until your body expels cholesterol”
I’m vegetarian with most of my meals fully vegan - also as full disclosure.
However, I do think it’s reasonable to assume that when a lot of money is at stake, there will be groups out there doing what they can to manipulate public opinion and stack the legislation on things related to our food system. Often, this is right out in the open, like the lobbyist system, PACs, and so on. Or in cases where someone like Oprah was taken to court in Texas for saying something about mad cow disease…Texas has their Texas Beef Promotion and Research Act. She ultimately won, but that’s Oprah we are talking about. Not everyone can afford a nuisance lawsuit like that, so I’m sure it has a chilling effect.
And then, more recently, there are now states who have enough politicians under the influence of industry to preemptively hinder lab grown meats. Which I just find bizarre, you’d think the Tysons of the world would just get in on that early, as they could probably build on branding and distribution and vertical markets they already have and still make a hefty profit on it.
you’d think the Tysons of the world would just get in on that early, as they could probably build on branding and distribution and vertical markets they already have and still make a hefty profit on it.
They are stuck behind so much infrastructure that it would be, to them, so cost prohibitive that they need to oppose it. Just think of all of the chicken, farmers, warehouses, feed lots, etc, that they deal with. I agree that they should get on board. And they are only shooting themselves in the foot. But, I guess, as long as they can squeeze as much as they can while they can, they are going to do it
Strong suspicion that this whole trend has been beef industry influenced and or funded. Especially since they quite often decide to tout beef tallow (somehow as “healthy”) instead of a non-seed based oil like olive oil, avocado oil, etc.
For some context of the other things the beef industry has done before:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/03/beef-industry-public-relations-messaging-machine
I would not be the least surprised if we were to find out decades later there were Big Tobacco like efforts to suppress, as much as possible, all the health-related issues with many of the things pushed as the Standard American Diet (SAD). And not just for beef: other meats, dairy, and eggs. Everyone should bear in mind, especially when they have found some random Internet doctor that is claiming that a bullshit diet like the carnivore diet is “good for you”, there was a time when (compromised) doctors would claim that smoking was “good for you”, too. I would not be surprised if we found very sus funding for prominent people pitching the bro science…
This notion of beef tallow as a health food, though…LOL. Reminds me of the “paleo” people that were consuming massive quantities of bacon as some kind of health food. 🤣
Seems like many people will do nearly anything to justify eating things they already eat and want to keep eating…I’ve noticed many people on the “paleo” diet still consuming massive quantities of dairy even if that was supposedly something they should cut out of their diet. I suspect many on the paleo diet just wanted a permission structure to eat more meat and declare themselves “paleo”.
That was my first thought too. No grand conspiracy or personal mission here, just basic corruption by some of the shittiest people.
Agree with this but for full disclosure I am vegan. I think though there is at least some beef industry money behind the “anti seed money, carnivore diet, eat raw meat until your body expels cholesterol”
I’m vegetarian with most of my meals fully vegan - also as full disclosure.
However, I do think it’s reasonable to assume that when a lot of money is at stake, there will be groups out there doing what they can to manipulate public opinion and stack the legislation on things related to our food system. Often, this is right out in the open, like the lobbyist system, PACs, and so on. Or in cases where someone like Oprah was taken to court in Texas for saying something about mad cow disease…Texas has their Texas Beef Promotion and Research Act. She ultimately won, but that’s Oprah we are talking about. Not everyone can afford a nuisance lawsuit like that, so I’m sure it has a chilling effect.
And then, more recently, there are now states who have enough politicians under the influence of industry to preemptively hinder lab grown meats. Which I just find bizarre, you’d think the Tysons of the world would just get in on that early, as they could probably build on branding and distribution and vertical markets they already have and still make a hefty profit on it.
They are stuck behind so much infrastructure that it would be, to them, so cost prohibitive that they need to oppose it. Just think of all of the chicken, farmers, warehouses, feed lots, etc, that they deal with. I agree that they should get on board. And they are only shooting themselves in the foot. But, I guess, as long as they can squeeze as much as they can while they can, they are going to do it
The beef has beef with the leaf.
Now that sounds like a job for Al