Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It
Eating Meat Is Bad for Climate Change, and Here Are All the Studies That Prove It
As negotiations get underway at COP28, we compiled a list of the leading research documenting the connection between meat and greenhouse gas emissions.
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I’m not super serious. I mean we are talking hypotheticals either way. The world/USA is never going to be full vegan. At least not in our lifetimes, and we have to feed too many people. So, things will continue just as they are.
If I was being serious I would have also mentioned the water crisis in our agricultural areas in the US on top of the contamination. That way I could really drive home just how unsustainable our situation is. I know that livestock uses more water by the way, but it’s super unsustainable as it is. I doubt that just cutting out meat would be enough to save the lack of water situation.
It’s a multifaceted, and complicated issue. One that if we’re being serious I’m smart enough to know that I don’t know all the ins and outs of. I’m also smart enough to know that you don’t either. Seeing as this issue isn’t our job and both of us are woefully inadequate to look at the situation from every angle. I was simply trying to look at some angles that perhaps you hadn’t.
I think that explains how serious I was with my comments. Which is to say I am not, and neither are you.
Also, did you know that 20% of US crops are alfalfa for export? I’ll let you figure out why that’s important. After all you made me look up Charlie Kirk.
Again…. Current land use does not dictate future land use.
And I’m not seeing anything about 1/5th of US crop exports being alfalfa
There are more articles, but this is the specific article I was citing.
I typed out like 6 paragraphs explaining why us even arguing about this topic is dumb. But really it comes down to this. In order to make the world go vegan or even just the US you would have to FORCE a lot of people. In the process destroying major symbols of their culture. Among so many other problems. A bunch of people would suffer from malnutrition until they got the hang of the new diet.
That’s the problem. Every time I see this topic come up. I never see anyone mention the problems with forcing the world to go vegan. It would essentially be cultural genocide since a lot of cultures really revolve around food.
The list just keeps going with why forcing the world or US to go vegan is a horrible idea. But no one wants to admit it.
That article says 20% of alfalfa is exported
Yes yes I told you you were right. Jeez man
But, about forcing everyone to switch to vegan cultural genocide right?
I typed my reply before I saw yours.
No idea what you’re talking about with forcing veganism. I’ve suggested most people reduce their meat consumption significantly and that some give up meat. That’s not veganism and I never said anything about forcing people.
Dude, I started this whole thing by playing devils advocate about the problems of the world getting rid of livestock and going vegan. You joined in the conversation by saying you read my comments and accusing me of listening to some dude I had to look up.
Therefore it was a fair assumption, since you never said otherwise, to look at our entire conversation as we were talking about the entire world going vegan.
Look it’s ok. It was like 3am or something here when we were having this conversation, and honestly we both sucked at it.
I hope you have a great rest of the week.
You know what you’re right. I’ll be damned I guess I misread that.
However, I am curious about your take on the cultural genocide angle with the food.
Yes. That’s not even 20% of US corn growth alone. They are saying 20% of alfalfa is exported.