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Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 week agoMost of the problem with meat production comes from the way we produce meat, rather than the amount. Which is inevitably dictated by big money interests, simply being allowed to do whatever they want, in order to maximize profit margins.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Bovines produce huge amounts of methane. There is no getting around that fact.
Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 1 week ago
That’s not actually as true as people have been led to believe. If cow farts were really such a large factor, then we would have already been having a climate change issue, based simply on the natural dietary habits of grazing animals.
The majority of the emissions attributed to the meat industry are due to background factors involved in their care and upkeep. It’s a very resource heavy process, that produces an enormous amount of waste. They include everything in their assessments, from their food production, all the way down to heating and electricity requirements for their facilities. Depending on the area, that can be as bad as coal-burning power plants and diesel engines to harvest hay. Nothing about the meat industry is “clean”.