The Letitia James Anti-Business Business Model - WSJ

The Letitia James Anti-Business Business Model - WSJ

• The New York AG sues a meat company because it sells too much meat.

"...Last week Attorney General Letitia James charged the world’s largest beef producer, JBS USA, with misrepresenting its carbon emissions...

Pray tell, how? 

Her argument is that eating beef is bad for the climate, and that JBS duped consumers into buying its products by making overly ambitious pledges to cut emissions. Seriously. That’s the case.

“Beef has the highest total greenhouse gas emissions of any major food commodity,” the lawsuit notes...
“The JBS Group forecasts increased demand for its products over the coming decades, and it intends to meet that demand,” the lawsuit says. 

So in her view the company’s offense is doing what it is in business to do—producing meat to satisfy growing public demand...