All 10 of the largest U.S. meat and dairy companies have lobbied against environmental and climate policies, resisting climate regulations, including rules on greenhouse gases and emissions reporting. This is according to a study by New York University, which examined the political influence of the 10 largest meat and dairy companies in the United States.
livestock mostly graze on plants we can’t eat or are fed parts of plants that we can’t or won’t eat.
Globally livestock consume about 6 billion tonnes of feed annually – including one third of global cereal production – of which 86% is made of materials that are currently not eaten by humans. Producing 1 kg of boneless meat still requires an average of 2.8 kg human-edible feed.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211912416300013
and most of this 86% could be converted to other uses, including human-edible feed.
what i said was true. what you said doesn’t change that.
Yes it is true, but it still is a moot point because “producing 1 kg of boneless meat still requires an average of 2.8 kg human-edible feed.”
it’s not moot. it’s absolutely true.
I already told you it is true, but it means nothing. Animal agriculture is still an incredibly big part of the problem fucking up the planet right now. I think I have supplied you with enough data for that by now. Maybe read it?
since all of agriculture is only about 20% of our emissions, and we need to eat, i disagree with your analysis.
You can disagree all you want, but climate scientists say it is so:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/20/vegan-diet-cuts-environmental-damage-climate-heating-emissions-study https://www.oxfordmartin.ox.ac.uk/news/201603-plant-based-diets/
Perhaps you might want to start citing sources?
why would i? cutting up yours is plenty of fun.
the study published july this year doesn’t say what the fluff piece says it does. it says production of different products has different emmissions, and those consumed by vegans are lower. it doesn’t say being vegan reduces the more harmful production levels.
neither of those studies support the thesis that it’s “mostly animal agriculture that’s destroying the planet”
it’s cute that you think i dont read OWID