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The best thing we can do for the environment by far is reduce consumption of beef and dairy products. This is very false. Source: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemiss
by staplers 6y ago
The best thing we can do for the environment by far is reduce consumption of beef and dairy products.
This is very false.
Source: https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emissions https://www.epa.gov/ghgemissions/sources-greenhouse-gas-emis...
- 24gttghh 6y agoMaybe not the best overall, but definitely the cheapest and easiest thing a consumer can do, right now, today, is eat less red meat.
- staplers 6y agoThere are already subsidies which incentivize the production of cattle. Just like with corn, if demand goes down, they'll just find a way to use cattle for something else (like turning it into feed or some energy source). The average citizen has very say in macro-economic supply chains.
- 24gttghh 6y agoI highly doubt ranchers would turn to grinding up beef herds just to make more feed. They would just grow more forage/feed crops. But they really wouldn't since it's the beef that needs the absurd volume of feed, so ideally they would just go out of business.