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As usual Vox has a good article to read. This one has a more good quotes than I can put in here. so read it yourself. but to get you a little more interested.
The charts are worth looking at too. This article has some of the facts and figures that I and some other members have been discussing, too.
But years of research on the environmental impact of food make one thing clear: Plant proteins, even if processed into imitation burgers, have smaller climate, water, and land impacts than conventional meats. Apart from environmental impact, reducing meat production would also reduce animal suffering and the risk of both animal-borne disease and antibiotic resistance.
Fossil fuels do make up a far greater proportion of emissions in the US and globally, but even if we reduced energy emissions down to zero, demand for meat and dairy alone could make us exceed critical levels of global warming. That makes shifting diets away from meat a critical tool in preventing global temperatures from rising above 1.5°C or 2°C by 2100.
With a billion and a half cows on the planet — raised for both beef and dairy — that adds up to about 9 percent of all global greenhouse gas emissions alone.
every 12 calories from corn and soy fed to a pig provides just one calorie of meat back
The charts are worth looking at too. This article has some of the facts and figures that I and some other members have been discussing, too.
