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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  • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    11 months ago

    what would change if everyone were vegan? what would change to MAKE everyone vegan? you can’t actually know what that world would be like. you’re guessing.

    • tetraodon@feddit.it
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      11 months ago

      Sorry but what an idiotic take.

      It has been proven over and over again that diets including fewer animal products are lighter on the environment (e.g. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w).

      I’m not claiming everyone should go vegan, but if everyone ate less meat, it would give us more time against climate change.

      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        11 months ago

        the nature article only talks about the impacts of producing the various foods in the current circumstance. if people shifted to eating less meat, then circumstances would be different, but it’s not clear that the environment would actually benefit at all.