Comment on YSK that apart from not having a car, the single greatest thing you can do for the climate is simply eating less red meat

• commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

  not all land is suitable for crops. letting cattle graze it is fine.

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  • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      this is a strawman

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      • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

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  • usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

    Good news is that overall arable farmland usage goes down the less meat you eat. Don’t need to use all the same land, you have flexibility to move around production

    we show that plant-based replacements for each of the major animal categories in the United States (beef, pork, dairy, poultry, and eggs) can produce twofold to 20-fold more nutritionally similar food per unit cropland. Replacing all animal-based items with plant-based replacement diets can add enough food to feed 350 million additional people, more than the expected benefits of eliminating all supply chain food loss.

    www.pnas.org/doi/abs/10.1073/pnas.1713820115

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    • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

      overall arable farmland usage goes down the less meat you eat.

      I don’t think that has ever happened.

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