All 10 of the largest U.S. meat and dairy companies have lobbied against environmental and climate policies, resisting climate regulations…

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.

    • CrazyEddie041@kbin.social
      62·
      1 year ago

      It’s legal because the people who benefit from corporate lobbying are the same people who determine what is legal.

      • rdrunner@lemmy.world
        9·
        1 year ago

        Yup! And it’s exactly why the system will never change on its own. The people in power will never voluntarily give up that power. Why does Congress get to vote on its own salary?!

    • Pat_Riot
      13·
      1 year ago

      Ah, what you are missing is that the people who make those laws are the same ones being lobbied, and lobbying means giving money to them.

    • Cheers@sh.itjust.works
      23·
      1 year ago

      It exists because it’s ridiculous to expect government to know about every industry’s ins and outs. Sometimes we benefit from lobbying as because some old law is affecting new processes or we need to support funding for something that we didn’t know about.

      The issue is when shit is mundane and worthless like the topic op presented. Lobbying against climate policies just means you’re part of the problem. We understand enough to know the policies need to exist and it’s a waste of everyone’s time and money for these giant corps to lobby against them.

      • aidan@lemmy.worldM
        1·
        1 year ago

        Furthermore, for a lot of issues, there are a select few people who have a big enough incentive to vote solely on one issue, and the rest of people don’t care because the harm is does to them is relatively diffuse.

    • Touching_Grass@lemmy.world
      112·
      1 year ago

      I don’t care about corporate lobbying because I think its useful. Lobbying is useful because its just keeping your issues to people who can do something about it.

      What I don’t get is why regular people don’t organize and create their own lobby. I know wealthy individuals who do it to change things they don’t like.

      They don’t stand in streets and burn energy screaming right before they get their heads caved in by police. You know what’s better, paying $5 into a pool and hiring a firm to develop research and a report that you can give to a lawyer who can start to bring it to representatives.

      There’s a reason you never see wallstreet bankers or tobacco executives in the streets. Its not how anything gets done

      You’re all down voting but you know lobbying is for anyone right. Check out the link below to see an example. Would you want to remove groups like this from bringing their cause forward. Lobbying itself isn’t bad. What is bad is that more people aren’t using it which leaves only the corrupt ones

      https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2021/05/abortion-rights-up-lobbying-with-roe-threatened/

      • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
        11·
        1 year ago

        Lobbying is useful because its just keeping your issues to people who can do something about it.

        Actually, lobbying is hurtful because it puts a goddamn pricetag on getting anything done. What happens when I have a million fucking dollars and you don’t, but your need is far greater? Go fuck yourself until you get more scrilla!

        SHUT THE FUCK UP UNTIL YOU HAVE THE MONEY – that is what you’re supporting right now.

        What I don’t get is why regular people don’t organize and create their own lobby.

        Oh boy, you sure are clueless, which is pretty lame since you’re pushing some bullshit opinions here

        https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee

        In the United States, a political action committee (PAC) is a tax-exempt 527 organization that pools campaign contributions from members and donates those funds to campaigns for or against candidates, ballot initiatives, or legislation.[1][2] The legal term PAC was created in pursuit of campaign finance reform in the United States. Democracies of other countries use different terms for the units of campaign spending or spending on political competition (see political finance). At the U.S. federal level, an organization becomes a PAC when it receives or spends more than $1,000 for the purpose of influencing a federal election, and registers with the Federal Election Commission (FEC), according to the Federal Election Campaign Act as amended by the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002 (also known as the McCain–Feingold Act).[3] At the state level, an organization becomes a PAC according to the state’s election laws.

        Contributions to PACs from corporate or labor union treasuries are illegal, though these entities may sponsor a PAC and provide financial support for its administration and fundraising. Union-affiliated PACs may solicit contributions only from union members. Independent PACs may solicit contributions from the general public and must pay their own costs from those funds.

        Who can create a PAC?

        An individual or group can set up a “nonconnected committee” when it wants to set up a political action committee (PAC), and that PAC is not one of the following: A political party committee. A candidate’s authorized committee. A separate segregated fund (SSF) established by a corporation or labor organization.

        here ya go bud: https://www.fec.gov/help-candidates-and-committees/registering-pac/

        There’s a reason you never see wallstreet bankers or tobacco executives in the streets. Its not how anything gets done

        you fucking moron. The reason you never see them in the streets is because they’re the ones who built the goddamn system to favor THEMSELVES. That’s why they DO join us on the streets, just above us – to laugh at us pawns who are fucked from the start.

        Lastly, you’re 100% wrong about the streets not solving a goddamn thing.