This is an interesting article and one of the reasons that since pre-pandemic I have been trying to consciously have more vegetarian days in my weekly diet. I recently switched to soy milk. Another reason is that animal products have saturated fats.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍
"If the world adopted a plant-based diet, we would reduce global agricultural land use from 4 to 1 billion hectares"
Imagine 3 billion more hectares for fully wild ecosystems.
Diet is THE elephant in the room when it comes to reversing nature collapse.
ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
Imagine 3 billion more hectares for fully wild ecosystems.
Diet is THE elephant in the room when it comes to reversing nature collapse.
ourworldindata.org/land-use-diets
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Cows can turn grass to meat efficiently. We can't.
Michael Pollan addressed some of this in Cooked. Meatless might not be the fix we think it is.
Or am I behind on the research?
And, I can see advantages to that. Probably for the planet as well. Something about "meat in due season."
As soon as I see artificial lights in any kind of factory farm, I start to wonder.
And, pasture seems a very gentle use of large bits of land compared to soybeans.
Feedlots are evil and destructive-definitely. We need to fix that.
It's confusing and probably important for me to get the math right so that I can teach these kids--who need to save the planet-- how to evaluate options.
You guys always move me toward better teaching.
I'm so glad you posted, @mmylova.bsky.social
In the US, we use almost twice as much land to grow crops for animal feed than for human consumption
Veganism is better for the planet and the animals. Small farms still kill animals.