Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds
Plant-heavy ‘flexitarian’ diets could help limit global heating, study finds
Global adoption of diet low in meat would aid health, land and food systems as well as reducing emissions, researchers say
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All this pussy shit about changing our entire eating schedule to reduce emissions by .01% is fucking dumb. The main problem is western habits and our dumb intake of everything! If the entirety of the US and EU disappeared overnight then emissions would drop by more than 75% even though the West doesn't even make up 10% of the world population.
All this pussy shit about attacking one of the worst emitting industries on the planet? Ig im a huge pussy because I love fighting climate change
Beef itself isn't the part that's emitting. It's all the transportation and handling and resources the beef needs. You can stop buying beef to lower emissions sure but you can't replace eating beef with just eating more other shit that might also emit just as much.
Source?
Cattle are the No. 1 agricultural source of greenhouse gases worldwide. Each year, a single cow will belch about 220 pounds of methane. Methane from cattle is shorter lived than carbon dioxide but 28 times more potent in warming the atmosphere
from: https://www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/making-cattle-more-sustainable
This is a red herring but you know that grass fed cows don't produce as much methane right? You know there is a considerable amount of energy used to maintain the cow right? This is energy that would be used almost regardless if we are to increase consumption of grains rather than cows which is the problem. We are going to get fatter as a civilization if we start eating less meat.
We will replace meat with palm oil and corn.
So tell me, where are you going to get all that grass to feed all the cows with?
Russia. We send them all to Russia and they can have all the cow villages they want.