[Answered] Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad
[Answered] Why is the consumption of Meat considered bad
I heard something to do with Nitrogen and …cow farts(?) I am really unsure of this and would like to learn more.
Answer -
4 Parts
- Ethical reason for consuming animals
- Methane produced by cows are a harmful greenhouse gas which is contributing to our current climate crisis
- Health Reasons - there is convincing evidence that processed meats cause cancer
- it takes a lot more calories of plant food to produce the calories we would consume from the meat.
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I'm so glad you used the outworldindata link.
do you see how most of what is fed to animals is soy meal? that is the industrial waste from pressing soybeans for oil.
a soybean is only about 20% oil. if 17% of all the end uses of soybeans is oil, then about 85% of all soybeans are pressed for oil.
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there is no reason to think that the land would be deforested, nor even that it would not have been deforested for some other reason, if everyone were vegan.
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what would change if everyone were vegan? what would change to MAKE everyone vegan? you can't actually know what that world would be like. you're guessing.
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the nature article only talks about the impacts of producing the various foods in the current circumstance. if people shifted to eating less meat, then circumstances would be different, but it's not clear that the environment would actually benefit at all.
calling my take idiotic doesn't rebutt it. it's pure rhetoric.