I heard something to do with Nitrogen and …cow farts(?) I am really unsure of this and would like to learn more.

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  • Ethical reason for consuming animals
  • Methane produced by cows are a harmful greenhouse gas which is contributing to our current climate crisis
  • Health Reasons - there is convincing evidence that processed meats cause cancer
  • it takes a lot more calories of plant food to produce the calories we would consume from the meat.

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  • seitanic@lemmy.sdf.org
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    11 months ago

    Yeah, you have to cook them right, just like anything. Meat tastes awful if you cook it wrong, too.

    • VanillaGorilla@kbin.social
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      11 months ago

      But must of us grew up to know how to cook meat. I learned how to cook vegetarian meals that aren’t side dishes when I was 30. Besides spaghetti Napoli I mean.