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Whilst completely ignoring the billions of creatures killed and their habitats demolished to provide nutrient light petrochemical guzzling plant food - and that most of it is seasonal and therefore requires transporting across the globe by the most polluting vehicles in the world (cargo ships use a very, very dirty fuel) you have absolutely zero critical thinking skills. Eating plants is far more damaging to the environment and wildlife than eating locally ethically raised cattle. Vegetarianism is a con for the weak minded but the profits are HUGE. Meat costs a lot of money to produce and this is why the billionaire elite want to force the cattle farmers out of business and off their land and feed humans the cattle feed instead. It's all about money.
If you don't want to eat meat - fine - but running around like a crybaby calling people murderers for eating their natural species-appropriate diet just makes you look like a fool. Cattle as food is the most environmentally kind and self sustaining food production of any kind. Grasslands are carbon traps, being constantly trimmed by grazing cattle hyper-accelerates CO2 absorption by encouraging the grass growth, what comes out of the back of the cow refeeds the soil - no creature killing herbicides and pesticides, no petrochemicals, no new creature killing land/forest clearance and it can be done locally in most cases in all seasons.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...b61b84d3430fb5
https://www.research.ox.ac.uk/articl...at-free-future
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43016-023-00795-w
Is eating soya causing damage to the planet?
Europe imports 39m tonnes of soya a year (imagine it contained in 15 miles' worth of lorries bumper to bumper), 90% is destined for animal feed. It's beef rather than veggie burgers that ate all the soybean. Secondly, at least tofu (soybean curd) allows you to source dietary protein directly from a vegetarian food. By contrast it takes 8-16lb of soybeans to produce 1lb of beef, which is spectacularly inefficient. Hardly a snappy riposte, but it should do the job.
https://www.theguardian.com/environm...al-living-soya
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A vast, forested savannah, it covers nearly a quarter of Brazil’s land area, about the size of England, France, Germany, Italy and Spain combined. Today however, over half of the Cerrado’s 100 million hectares of native landscape has been lost largely driven by livestock and soybean farming.
In fact, almost 80% of the world’s soybean crop is fed to livestock, especially for beef, chicken, egg and dairy production (milk, cheeses, butter, yogurt, etc).
https://wwf.panda.org/discover/our_f...roduction/soy/
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Some point the finger at vegans and vegetarians. All that soya in tofu, soya burgers, soya milk must be the reason forests are being destroyed? Who else eats that much soya right?
Wrong. Most of the world’s soya is grown for the meat industry. Only 6% of the soya grown globally is eaten by humans. 90% of all soya is fed to chickens, pigs and cows. (The rest is used for things like pet food and biofuels.)
Over the past 50 years, meat production has more than quadrupled. Today, more than half the mammals on the planet are livestock, and the impact of this shift has been enormous. Grazing and feeding these animals takes up an area of land the size of North, Central and South America combined, and the industry produces nearly a sixth of global greenhouse gas emissions.
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/s...etarian-vegan/
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Red meat and cancer:
https://www.cancerresearchuk.org/abo...-controversies
Dr Marco Springmann, senior researcher on environmental sustainability and public health at the University of Oxford, called the findings “a skewed reading and presentation of the scientific evidence”.
Meanwhile Emma Shields, Cancer Research UK’s health information manager, said: “Processed meat increases the risk of bowel cancer – there’s a mass of evidence that shows this.”
But while debate continues about the potential health outcomes of eating red meat, there is one thing we know for sure: the red meat industry damages the environment.
A 2018 study published in the journal Nature found current levels of meat production will “greatly affect the Earth’s environment” and emit 5.2 billion tonnes of carbon dioxide if not curbed.
And in August, UN climate change experts said switching to a plant-based diet was one of the best changes you could make to help the environment.
https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/ent...b0e9e7605231ed
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