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That was a pretty incoherent rant, so not sure where to start. Meat, especially beef production produces an order of magnitude more emissions than crops do. Ri
by _Microft 8y ago
That was a pretty incoherent rant, so not sure where to start.
Meat, especially beef production produces an order of magnitude more emissions than crops do. Rice is quite bad among the crops because of the methane produced but even that is far better than meat. [0]
You can even cut 80% of CO_2 equiv. emissions of beef by replacing it with pork. It's THAT bad.
Half of all people depend on crops produced with artifical fertilizer, so there's no way around that at the moment. But: you could reduce a lot of the production of crops if you hadn't to feed that many cows for meat for dairy products.
I'm not a vegan or vegetarian by the way but have reduced my meat consumption by at least 50-75% without actually missing anything. Don't go into the sacrifice area, nobody likes to be there. Just cut what you won't miss anyways.
[0] https://ourworldindata.org/meat-and-seafood-production-consumption#greenhouse-gas-emissions-per-gram-of-protein-by-food-product https://ourworldindata.org/meat-and-seafood-production-consu...
- semi-extrinsic 8y agoOne extremely low hanging fruit is to replace beef with pork or chicken wherever you're not really tasting and enjoying the beef. E.g. for tacos, where the flavor is dominated by spices anyway - at least for me it's equally good with minced pork.