G7 nations are ignoring the "cow in the room"—beef and dairy emissions
G7 nations are ignoring the "cow in the room"—beef and dairy emissions
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G7 nations are ignoring the "cow in the room"—beef and dairy emissions
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Lots of different estimates, but looks like between 11% and 20% of ghg emissions are livestock. That's way higher than I thought.
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And that’s without accounting for the feed iirc, which is the majority of our farmland. Then we have to water that shit, grow it, transport it to the livestock so they can eat it, etc.
It’s incredibly resource intensive to raise a living being.
Edit: I didn’t even touch on all the deforestation for livestock feed, which is a whole other conversation
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I didn’t even touch on all the deforestation
the paper does, and it's deeply flawed. no one should trust these over simplifications of our vastly complex agricultural systems.
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that’s without accounting for the feed
it's not, and the methodology is flawed.
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Gotta be flawed if it says animal-based foods are only 2x as bad as plant based ones lol. Talk about an understatement
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