Mostly vegan Mayor Eric Adams wants New Yorkers to say goodbye to beef and put the Big Apple on a plant-based diet to help save the world from global warming.
“It is easy to talk about the emissions that’s coming from buildings and how it impacts our environment, but we now have to talk about beef,” Adams said Monday of his greens for green initiative during a press conference at New York City Health + Hospitals Culinary Center in Brooklyn.
“I don’t know if people are really ready for this conversation,” Hizzoner said, in a dazzling understatement. “[But] we can’t have a level of hypocrisy where we want to ensure that we do make local laws to address the emissions that come from fossil fuel, but not be willing to have a real conversation on what food is doing to us.”
According to Adams, food sources represent 20% of New York City’s overall carbon emissions — the third largest source behind buildings and transportation .
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