All 10 of the largest U.S. meat and dairy companies have lobbied against environmental and climate policies, resisting climate regulations, including rules on greenhouse gases and emissions reporting. This is according to a study by New York University, which examined the political influence of the 10 largest meat and dairy companies in the United States.

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    100% of the top 10 meat and dairy companies.

    That should be in the title—otherwise it implies that every family dairy in the country has its own team of lobbyists.

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      Closer to the truth though. Most are part of organizations that include lobbyists that would oppose anything that negatively impacts the industry. I don’t find that particularly nefarious of course.

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        It’s not that the title isn’t still mostly true—it’s that the impossible statement discredits the rest of the article.

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          Precisely this, if you’ve got a point to make, don’t sensationalise the headline, it only makes it easy for people to discredit and ignore without even reading the article.

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      The title is misleading, however the top companies take up such a huge market share that it might as well be a true statement. I know there are companies trying to make some difference and I hate media sensationalism

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        however the top companies take up such a huge market share that it might as well be a true statement

        How much of the market share do they take up?

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            For more context for you and @trash80@lemmy.dbzer0.com, this is fairly emergent.

            The dairy industry has been a loss-industry for a few decades thanks to pro-big-ag government intervention. Very few farms are able to keep from consolidating because of that.

            It’s a mass-scale hostile takeover, and THAT is a much more meaningful headline than us forgetting about the smaller farms that fight to prevent this whole thing from becoming a panopoly

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      Well I promise they aren’t upset with having their industry lobbied for.

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      And it would imply companies that make lab-grown meat and animal products, which are often companies formed explicitly in support of environmental sustainability goals, also.