Copenhagen’s City Govt. Limits Elderly to Tiny Servings of Delicious, Nutritious Meat
Clearly, the Danish council is shamefully basing nonsensical policy on both climate and dietary pseudoscience.
In the name of “climate change,” the cultists running the Danish capital are targeting the elderly in their anti-meat crusade.
Copenhagen’s city government recently adopted climate-focused food guidelines that sharply restrict beef servings in public institutions, and this has been interpreted and criticized as limiting nursing home residents to about 80 grams of beef per week for “climate reasons.”
An eco-warrior politician has sparked outrage in Denmark after she defended guidelines limiting residents of government-run nursing homes to just 2.8 ounces of beef a week — which is less than one Big Mac.
Birgitte Kehler Holst of the left-wing green Danish party The Alternative was also accused of saying old people in nursing homes should be “punished” by restricting their meat intake in comments made in a meeting of Copenhagen’s City Council on April 30.
She was speaking against plans to exclude nursing home residents from guidelines in the Danish capital that restrict meals at government-run sites to just 2.8 ounces (80 grams) of beef, lamb, or veal per week.
That is less than the amount of beef in a standard McDonald’s Big Mac, which contains two 1.6-ounce beef patties — for a total of 3.2 ounces.
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They give elderly care residents just 11.4 grams of beef (pictured) per day to avoid exceeding the weekly limit of 80 grams.
"Our elderly have been the biggest… pic.twitter.com/lqyky0SstK
— Basil the Great (@BasilTheGreat) May 5, 2026
This policy is a result of Copenhagen’s municipal Food Strategy (in force since 2020), aimed at cutting greenhouse gas emissions from public meals, including those served to senior citizens.
The city signed the “Cool Food Pledge” and set a goal to reduce the climate impact of public meals by 25% by 2025 compared to 2018, mainly by reducing consumption of ruminant meat such as beef. A mid‑way evaluation (2018–2022) found that greenhouse gas emissions from senior‑meal procurement fell 10–14%, primarily due to a 27–46% reduction in beef purchases in nursing homes and central kitchens.
However, real dietary scientists would know that older adults should consume 1 to 1.2 grams of protein per kilogram of body weight per day (approximately 0.45 to 0.54 grams per pound). This is higher than the general adult recommendation of 0.8 g/kg/day. Experts suggest distributing this intake evenly throughout the day, aiming for 25-30 grams of high-quality protein per meal.
Too little protein can lead to malnutrition.
Eating too little protein can contribute to the progression of sarcopenia and anabolic resistance, as well as malnutrition. This can increase the chance of falling and sustaining a serious injury, which is already a higher riskTrusted Source in older age.
Experts recommend that older adults eat about 1 to 1.2 grams (g) of protein per kilogram of body weight (0.45 to 0.54 g per pound) each day. Depending on how many calories you eat a day, consider eating:
- 23 to 31 ounces (oz)Trusted Source a day of meats, poultry, and eggs
- 8 to 10 oz of seafood daily
- 4 to 5 oz of nuts, seeds, and soy daily
🚨🇩🇰 COPENHAGEN CUTS MEAT FOR ELDERLY
Green council caps beef at 80g a week. That’s 11g a day.
Officials say seniors were “CLIMATE SINNERS.”
Critics warn of MALNUTRITION.
Punishing the elderly over climate goals while elites preach? This is INSANE. pic.twitter.com/9167vaPZjs
— Global Dissident (@GlobalDiss) May 6, 2026
“Anabolic resistance” is a condition where aging muscles become less responsive to protein intake. Animal-based proteins, like delicious steak or pork chops, contain higher levels of essential amino acids like leucine, lysine, and methionine, which are particularly effective at stimulating muscle protein synthesis compared to plant proteins.
Bone breaks are particularly dangerous for the elderly. My mother is currently nursing a broken hip. A professor I cherished in graduate school died after breaking one of her major bones.
The high-quality protein in meat contributes to bone density and may protect against cognitive decline by promoting neurotransmitter production and supporting cognitive function.
One study published in the Nutrition & Metabolism journal found that a high-protein diet was effective in reducing body weight and improving body composition in overweight older adults. By incorporating sufficient protein into their meals, aging individuals can support weight management efforts, reduce the risk of obesity-related health issues, and maintain a healthy body composition.
Protein plays a fundamental role in supporting health and well-being as we age. From preserving muscle mass and enhancing bone health to boosting immune function and supporting cognitive health, protein is a vital nutrient for aging individuals. By incorporating adequate protein into your diet through diverse and high-quality sources, you can promote healthy aging and enjoy a better quality of life.
The Copenhagen climate cultists have managed to accomplish something truly remarkable: they have weaponized the green agenda against the elderly residents who built the civilization these eco-warriors now seek to dismantle, one beef patty at a time.
The lesson for Americans watching from across the Atlantic is stark and urgent: when climate cultism is allowed to capture municipal institutions, it doesn’t stop at your gas stove or your car. It will eventually reach the dinner plate of your grandmother in a nursing home.
Clearly, the Danish council is shamefully basing nonsensical policy on both climate and dietary pseudoscience.
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Statism grasping its last straw.
Eventually they will throw the elderly in a Dutch oven.
Socialism always kills in the end.
what do you think that is on that plate?????
Soylent Green to replace all meat products by 2029.
Solvent Green
I just LOVE autoINcorrect!
After murdering children in the womb, murdering off the elderly under the guise of glo-bullschiff climate warming is just a death panel hiding behind the wants of murderers.
Assuming copenhagen has free health care, seniors take up a lot of resources. Makes it cheaper to kill them off after they retire and start to go downhill healthwise.
Envirowhackos hate people and other fauna. Making fewer of them faster is feature for them, not a bug. The envirowhackos want to save Gaia, but they push windmills that kills birds wholesale, and they don’t care.
And the offshore wind generators are even worse for the environment.
Thanks again, Sheldon Whitehouse.
Jack:
What’s really hysterical is that this is coming up at the exact same time that the IPCC has finally admitted that the whole “climate catastrophe” scam has been FAKE:
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/rcp85-is-officially-dead
The whole thing stemmed from their first attempts to control the global economy using the bogus “ozone hole” nonsense. It has directly killed millions of people through lack of refrigeration by their banning of safe, efficient, non-toxic, non-explosive refrigerants. Their success in implementing the Montreal Protocols to take over a major portion of the economy led them directly to the “anthropogenic global warming” nonsense, which has now morphed into “climate change” and then finally “climate wilding”.
Is the climate changing? Yup. Has it changed before? Yup. Will it change again? Yup.
How can we stop if from changing? By impoverishing every human being on the planet (except the select few, of course) by forcing collectivism on them.
Every single one of these “global warming” fanatics should be stuck out into the next Wyoming blizzard stripped to the skin. Even as they would be freezing they’d deny that it was happening, because they’ve been told that snowfalls are a thing of the past.
And they keep on increasing the cost of air conditioners by changing the allowed refrigerant every couple of years.
May the Bird of Paradise fly up their nose.
Or up their bums with bird flu.
Elder abuse
Henry Kissinger called the elderly “useless eaters”. Yuval Noah Harari, WEF, says there are too many “useless people”.
Yes, climate change scare has been used to try to change the economy. Look at past statements from UN officials –
“ At a news conference last week in Brussels, Christiana Figueres, executive secretary of U.N.’s Framework Convention on Climate Change, admitted that the goal of environmental activists is not to save the world from ecological calamity but to destroy capitalism.
“This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,” she said.” https://www.investors.com/politics/editorials/climate-change-scare-tool-to-destroy-capitalism/
Tim Wirth: “We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.“
https://www.azquotes.com/quote/604891#google_vignette
There’s more UN officials with similar quotes.
Even AOC’s former campaign manager, Chakrabarti, admitted the Green New Deal was about changing the economy.
well:
“it wasn’t originally a climate thing at all … we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saikat_Chakrabarti
No, he didn’t.
Between third-world invasion and rampant wokeness, Europe is currently experiencing the “slowly” part of “slowly, then all at once”. “All at once” will come sooner than they think, and it isn’t going to be pretty.
https://youtu.be/li0qPwn4U8Y?si=4eAVvAQcOxjMDk74
This is a red herring.
The protein needed now comes from chicken and fish as well as plant protein
the total protein is unchanged
Beef has been reduced and chicken and fish increased
Herring or beef, what place does the government have in determining what people will not be allowed to eat?
At government institutions. How could the government not have a say in what meals it serves at its institutions? Who should make that decision, if not the government? The hired help (a/k/a the deep state)?!
I have to laugh, you trying to draw a distinction between the deep state and the government.
The deep state IS the government. The government are just the people who THINK they’re the government.
No. The deep state are the employees who have seized control, but Israel’s the only country I know of where they’ve done it in the open and hold all the power. In most countries there is an elected government that in principle has all the power, and the deep state uses its superior knowledge of the system to bamboozle the government and do things without its knowledge. If the government knows about it, it can assert itself and get its way, at least in any given instance. But measures that officially take power from the government and give it to the deep state must be resisted, and that’s what Hodge here seemed (inadvertently I’m sure) to be proposing.
Always whataboutism and false equivalecies/dichotomies with you leftard bitches. Just keep your mouth shut on what you know nothing about and we’ll discuss past performance of leftards in power amongst ourselves.
So I see you don’t give a shit about the truth.
How is it “whataboutism” or “false equivalecies/dichotomies” to point out that the entire premise of this article is FALSE? If the meals continue to have adequate protein, how is it any of our business whether the city government chooses to serve beef, chicken, or fish at its institutions? We may think the basis of this decision is silly and unscientific and destructive of civilization, but it’s their decision to make, and so long as they’re not starving those who depend on them it’s none of our business.
You’d be content with protein from Bill Gates’ bug collection?
If you don’t like it, feel free to eat somewhere else.
Everyone, note the game this dishonest hack is playing. He provides no source for his claim that the “protein needed now comes from chicken and fish as well as plant protein.” He slips that last part in there, “as well as,” without saying exactly how much of the protein will be plant-based. I wasted far too much time trying to find evidence of what he’s claiming and found none.
docduracoat: Give us a source for your claim. NOW. No bullshit, no excuses.
Surely, this is fake news or a joke.
This reminds me about BBC.
Many years ago, had a show about Italy’s spaghetti harvest,
Soylent Green…
Or a slow motion starvation version Logan’s Run. Either seems like a bad idea Even worse is that there’s a mainstream political party who pushes this goofy overly restrictive, harmful dietary plan b/c that means there’s a degree of popular support for it.
Classic leftism. If you control everything, kill people until you can. If anyone gets in your way, kill them. It’s the logical conclusion of the narcissism that governs leftist thought and politics.
^^^^^^^^^^
kabloona, written by a frenchman in the 1940’s, relates his experiences among the innuit inhabitants of the canadian artic–the innuit would break the legs of their old / feeble elders, carry them onto an ice floe then push it out to the sea
Their Viking ancestors are rolling over in their graves.
These people should be put on the diet they espouse. Either that or put down like the rapid animals they are.
and thats why passive euthanasia is legal there
Denmark is a rotten place.
Marcellus was right.
When do they open the Soylent Green factory?
Soylent Green. Made from the best stuff on Earth!
Have you noticed all the protein in cereal and pasta
“Useless eaters” and “life unworthy of life” was a Nazi designation for the segments of the populace which, according to the Nazi regime, had no right to live. Those individuals were targeted to be murdered by the state via involuntary euthanasia, usually through the compulsion or deception of their caretakers.
Welcome to Socialism Utopia
This from the same Eninsteins who declared war on their own farmers by taxing them into bankrupcy and then destroying their farmland.
80g/week? I was under the impression the recommendation is about 100g/day!
Seems like Copenhagen is guilty of a human rights violation!
Copenhagenites should post this Wendy’s Where’s The Beef” commercial all over the city government site.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6_eWWfNB54
“Limits Elderly to Tiny Servings of Delicious, Nutritious Meat”
“about 80 grams of beef per week”
I have to agree, this is dishonest clickbait.
All beef may be meat, but not all meat is beef.
On the other hand, my body is not reacting well to the 1/2 lb smoked brisket cheeseburger I had for dinner, but i’ll endure, long enough to maybe have another next weekend, unless the ribs catch my fancy.
And you can do that in Copenhagen too, so long as you’re eating at home or at a privately run restaurant. But if you choose to eat at a government-run dining facility you’ll eat what they provide, whether it’s in Denmark or the USA.
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