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

• usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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

    I don’t think that has ever happened.

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• kadup@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    this is a strawman

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    • kadup@lemmy.world ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

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      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        You can’t counter “raising enough cows to supply our current meat demand takes a lot of resources we could be eating instead” with “its okay for them to eat grass :D”

        this conversation didn’t happen.

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