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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    1 year ago

    animals are fed parts of plants that people can’t or won’t eat. all of the studies about the ecological impacts ignore this fact and then attribute the water used to produce, say, cotton to beef.

    • 4lan@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m not arguing that we should eat animal feed, but rather use that land to grow food for humans

      • commie@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        1 year ago

        we already do that. for instance, soybeans. over 80% of the global soy crop is pressed for oil for human use, but then the industrial waste is fed to livestock.

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          1 year ago

          It’s funny how nowadays when a cow eats what is naturally supposed to eat we charge double price for it and consider it some specialty. It’s no wonder they have to jack them up with hormones.