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tenebrisnox@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

Wow. But not surprising. I really don’t think most people realise how catastrophically damaging to the world’s environment the meat industry is (or the whole agricultural industry, really).

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usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Animal agriculture is especially worse because it plainly demands much more agriculture to happen due to it’s inefficiencies. It requires growing huge amounts of animal feed where most of the energy is lost. Even it’s best case is bad compared to the worst case for eating plants directly

Transitioning to plant-based diets (PBDs) has the potential to reduce diet-related land use by 76%, diet-related greenhouse gas emissions by 49%, eutrophication by 49%, and green and blue water use by 21% and 14%, respectively, whilst garnering substantial health co-benefits

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Plant-based foods have a significantly smaller footprint on the environment than animal-based foods. Even the least sustainable vegetables and cereals cause less environmental harm than the lowest impact meat and dairy products [9].

www.mdpi.com/2072-6643/14/8/1614/html

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- anarchaos@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  those claims rely entirely on poore-nemecek 2019, a poorly methodized paper. you could be right, but this paper can’t support your claim.
  
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