"if we all stopped consuming animals and permanently swapped to plant-based food, we could return 3.1 billion hectares of farmland to forests and natural grasslands."
That's the size of the US, China, the EU & Australia combined. 8Gt of CO2 would be removed each year.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241230-how-carbon-negative-foods-can-help-reverse-climate-change
That's the size of the US, China, the EU & Australia combined. 8Gt of CO2 would be removed each year.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20241230-how-carbon-negative-foods-can-help-reverse-climate-change
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The below has informed my position:
"benefits of plant-based diets in treating type 2 diabetes and reducing key diabetes-related macrovascular and microvascular complications"
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5466941/
Do they face forwards or sideways?
Sorry.. we evolved to be predators. Meat Eaters.
Happy to reduce my meat consumption, but I saw what being Vegan did to my daughter and the difference in health and mental awareness when she started eating meat again.
Just like renewable energy - which I see you like (me too) - isn't dismissed because one person had a bad experience with solar panels
https://www.jandonline.org/article/S2212-2672(25)00042-5/fulltext