[Powerline] Someday, historians will analyze what caused American corporations to veer sharply to the left in the early years of the 21st century. It is a weird phenomenon, as exemplified by the case of WeWork:
Office space sharing company WeWork says it is no longer serving red or white meat at company events.
In an email to employees Thursday, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer Miguel McKelvey said the company won’t serve pork, poultry or red meat, and it won’t allow employees to expense meals that include those meats to the company. Fish will stay on the menu.
I would love to be present when a WeWork marketer takes a prospective client to lunch and explains that he can’t order a hamburger or a chicken salad sandwich. WeWork’s "Chief Creative Officer"‐that’s a bad sign, right there‐explains the company’s theory:
McKelvey said the change means WeWork will use less water and produce less carbon dioxide as well as saving the lives of animals.
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The policy is effective immediately and also applies to the company’s Summer Camp gathering in the United Kingdom in August. McKelvey wrote that WeWork could save 10,000 animals by eliminating meat at the upcoming Summer Camp event.
WeWork apparently thinks the "saved" cows will spend their days gamboling in meadows, while "saved" chickens will retire to old fowls’ homes. Someone should explain to these morons that such animals are raised for the sole purpose of being slaughtered. If demand for pork declines, the price of pork will fall and fewer pigs will be raised. But none will be "saved."
It would be entertaining to calculate how much impact the decline in carbon dioxide emissions resulting from WeWork’s new policy (if any) will have on global temperatures. I’m not sure there are enough zeros for that calculation. I am not in the market for WeWork’s services, but if I were, I would hire someone else, on the assumption that any company that is 1) this dumb, and 2) this distracted from its core mission is probably incompetent.