Thanks for your comment! > The premise that the amount of animal agriculture is constant is incorrect. That certainly is true – I just had a look at the exact

Thanks for your comment! > The premise that the amount of animal agriculture is constant is incorrect. That certainly is true – I just had a look at the exact numbers: Cattle has seen a 15.6% increase between 2000 and 2020[0]. However, even if you double the numbers in my calculation in my other comment[1], you will see that agricultural greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are still basically nothing compared to those caused by fossil emissions. > because it currently relies on mined hydrocarbons for feedstock fertilizer and transport. Many types of food require fertilizer for production and logistics. I'm not trying to say that animal agriculture might not be comparatively bad here but we certainly won't get rid of fertilizer- and logistics-related emissions over night by overcoming animal agriculture. In fact, it could be that we'd just replace one emission source with another. So, before prescribing vegan diets for everyone, I'd really like to see some numbers that suggest that such a move would actually change anything. [0]: https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Countries-Regions/International-Statistics/Data-Topic/AgricultureForestryFisheries/livestock_meat.html https://www.destatis.de/EN/Themes/Countries-Regions/Internat... [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675049 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35675049