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> while beef produces like 5% of global methane emmissions the oil and gas industry produce much much more... and beef can be solved by adding algae to their fe
by ath3nd 2y ago
> while beef produces like 5% of global methane emmissions the oil and gas industry produce much much more... and beef can be solved by adding algae to their feed.
It won't solve the problem of beef already occupying too much space (agriculture sprawl) and water. It's the most inefficient meat to produce, and meat production is extremely inefficient compared to plant food production.
https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local https://ourworldindata.org/food-choice-vs-eating-local
> I can just talk about my own story.
Anecdotal evidence aside, there are numerous studies showing that eating even a moderate diet of meat/processed meat can cause bowel and colon cancer:
- https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/news-and-blogs/news/new-research-says-even-moderate-red-and-processed-meat-eaters-at-risk-of-bowel-cancer/ https://www.bowelcanceruk.org.uk/news-and-blogs/news/new-res...
- https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34455534/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34455534/
- https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/red-meat-and-colon-cancer https://www.health.harvard.edu/staying-healthy/red-meat-and-...
> When I swapped everything I ate for meat, the depression went away,
Anecdotally, I completely stopped eating meat and dairy and replaced it with a fully plant/mushroom based diet in 2017, and my depression went away, and I lost quite some weight!