• @Crisps
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    1 year ago

    It largely depends on the way the meat is produced.

    You may have beef that is corn fed so you use all the energy of multiple times more corn production and transport to feed them vs. just eating the corn.

    Or you may have ranched grass fed beef that eats grass in a field that required nothing other than a fence. No plowing, destroying soil with pesticides and running heavy machinery. A few hundred years ago there were 3 times more roaming bison than there are cows in the US today, so gas isn’t really an issue.

    Best reason to go cut down on meat is for health reasons. And be careful of where your meat is sourced.

    Correction: it is a factor of 2 not 3. See reply for source.