Food and agriculture have a significant impact on our planet, particularly in terms of carbon emissions, water withdrawals, and land use.

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    12 years ago

    Not eating red meats is the single most impactful change an individual can have on their carbon footprint

    i doubt it.

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        12 years ago

        Guess what though, that’s what the literature supports.

        that claim is beyond the scope of that study, which didn’t actually consider any source of ghg emissions except agriculture.

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        12 years ago

        poore-nemecek 2018 is pretty low-quality. they attribute everything fed to livestock as emissions necessary in rearing livestock, but that’s just not true: much of what is fed to livestock would outherwise be waste, so feeding it to livestock is a conservation of resources, and not a net emission.