Mooove Over
Beef. It ain’t what’s for dinner anymore. That’s the popular response to the tripling of beef prices in the past 15 years. The underlying reasons have been severe droughts in the cattle producing states of Nebraska, Oklahoma and Texas, aggravated by the 50% tariff imposed by Donald Trump on imports of Brazilian beef.
Ironically, the droughts are connected to global warming caused in part by methane emissions from cattle. The rising price is expected to reduce consumption of beef, as well as the associated disastrous impacts on our personal health and the health of our planet.
But there is still hope for folks who just “have to have” their steak. A number of start-up companies are developing healthy, eco-friendly, convenient, tasty and reasonably priced steaks from animal cells and plants. They should appear on our supermarket shelves within a couple of years.
And here is the best part for those of us who care where our food comes from: These steaks will be processed through sanitary health-inspected vats, rather than through the digestive tracts of cows.
Larry Rogawitz
Santa Rosa
Sanctuary
In response to “Activists Fast for Sanctuary,” (Aug. 9): Yes. Yes. Yes. We need sanctuary status. Even if it’s only symbolic, why not give the community what it wants? Why not? It’s at least a start in protecting our neighbors from the terror that they are living in daily—for no good reason. Even if it’s only symbolic, why not stand up to the authoritarianism of ICE? Everybody can see what’s happening. Let’s protect our neighbors any way we can.
Antonia Nell
Via bohemian.com
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