Livestock farmer Shad Sullivan talks about how calls to reduce meat consumption could impact the country on ‘The Bottom Line.’
Shad Sullivan, a cattle rancher based in Texas and Colorado, says global “anti-meat rhetoric” is clearly putting U.S. food security and farmers’ livelihoods at serious risk.
“They all came together in this anti-meat rhetoric that is rampant around the world to control people, and that alone equates to total control,” Professor Sullivan said on Wednesday’s “The Bottom Line.” Ta. .
“The tyrants need a rallying cry, and that rallying cry is the climate crisis,” the rancher continued. “Sustainability is all about controlling production and consumption. It’s every ‘ism’ except Americanism.”
At the recent COP28 climate summit in Dubai, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) released the following report: The first document of its kind Bloomberg reported that countries with “excessive meat consumption” were advised to limit their consumption as part of broader efforts to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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In addition to issuing guidelines to reduce meat consumption in Western countries, FAO was said to have been expected to: Highlights how farmers should adapt Addressing “extreme weather conditions” and tackling emissions from food waste and fertilizer use.
US livestock farmer Shad Sullivan says proponents of “anti-meat rhetoric” are calling for control over production and consumption. (Fox News)
Sullivan called the move an “attack on private property” and named specific celebrities who appear to be influencing geopolitical groups.
“It starts with the world’s elite, people like Bill Gates and Soros and Klaus Schwab and Rockefeller,” the rancher said, “and they are the foot soldiers at the United Nations and the World Economic Forum. , both say: The biggest threat to the planet right now is beef.”
“So in order to control consumption and production, which they call sustainability, they have to pursue our property rights,” he explained.
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At the same time, the United States is reportedly running out of cattle, according to new numbers released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) earlier this month. The numbers show that ranchers are raising fewer cows, leading to higher beef prices.
Agricultural economists say the ongoing drought of the past three years, along with high input costs and inflation, are putting pressure on both consumers and farmers.
“There is a set of ideologues who don’t believe in eating meat of any kind or using animals as a renewable resource. And there are global corporations that are taking over our food supply at an alarming rate. “It’s beyond alarming,” Sullivan explained. “And these two ideologies have fused together and shown to be not only a threat to capitalism, but a threat to our food supply.”
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A cattle rancher likened the anti-meat mentality this way: communism and marxism.
“It’s become a top-to-bottom managed market. In the United States, our government is bottom-up, not top-down. And these regulatory aspects that they’re trying to put in place are top-down. . They come from above.’ And come to the producers,” he said.
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Mental health experts say challenges specific to farmers, such as drought conditions and geographic isolation, are contributing to the mental health crisis.
Sullivan wants to keep the ranch’s doors open, encouraging ordinary Americans to buy U.S.-grown produce and meat, and urging regulators to re-establish country-of-origin labeling.
“American consumers don’t know where their beef or pork comes from. [labeling]. They deserve the freedom to choose. And it’s a matter of freedom,” he said, “You have to buy local. You have to buy American. You have to demand American-made. And We have to start supporting producers across this country in some way.”
FOX Business’ Kennedy Hayes and FOX News’ Thomas Catenacci contributed to this report.
