I'm Ayesha Roscoe.
This is the Sunday Story, and it's NPR's climate Solutions Week.
This year, NPR is looking at the ways climate change is affecting what we eat and how what we eat is affecting climate change.
NPR's climate solutions reporter Julia Simon is here with us now.
Julia, welcome.
First of all, thank you.
It's gonna be fun today.
I understand you've been working on a story about beef, and I'm an interesting person for you to talk to about beef because my favorite food since I was a kid has been steak.
So even at like eight or nine years old, back in the day, we'd go to Golden Corral.
I would order steak and everybody else would get the buffet and they would bring the steak to the table and they would point it at the adult or the male in the table and they'd be like, no, it's for the little girl over there.
Okay, well, that's an image.
And interesting that they assumed it was for the man because we're going to get into that.
Ayesha, if you count yourself as one of the high beef eating Americans, you're probably going to be interested in this.
Cause we're going to explore some powerful ideas connecting Americans with beef eating.
Okay.
I definitely do consider myself one of those high beef eating Americans.
So where do we start?
We're gonna start in 2006.
And this is when Malcolm Regisford was a little boy in Los Angeles watching cartoons.
I had to be really young, maybe, you know, ten or something like that.