> This would have radical effects on the environment, the climate, and obviate the need to kill billions of animals every year. Let's agree on the ethical aspe

> This would have radical effects on the environment, the climate, and obviate the need to kill billions of animals every year. Let's agree on the ethical aspect of avoiding to kill animals. However, regarding the environment we need to look at the actual data and the weight of different activities on global greenhouse emissions: - Livestock farming : 5.8% - Road transport: 11.9% - Heating/cooling offices and house: 17.5% [0] So considering the actions we can take right now, we would get much more bang for buck in curbing emissions, by reducing heating and cooling costs in our own homes and avoid car usage, than we would by not eating meat. For the record I agree that we should stop animal cruelty but specifically on the environment the unconfortable truth is that there are more urgent 'confort' actions you can take right now, very people are willing to leave their car behind or curb their house A/C usage. [0] https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector#agriculture-forestry-and-land-use-18-4 https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector#agriculture-f...