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Re:Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish populations have been risi... by oneeyedpigeon on Thursday May 26, 2016 @11:33AM (#11778707)
If you take the argument to those extremes, you'll end up not eating anything. Or you'll spend your entire life trying to work out what impact your actions might have in order to justify whether to take them or not. The OP clearly stated their criteria. You also have criteria for what you choose to eat which could just as easily be picked apart with similar reductio-ad-absurdum 'reasoning'.
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Re:Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish populations have been risi... by shanev on Thursday May 26, 2016 @03:05PM (#11780623)
Not necessarily. Eating pastured-raised grass-fed meat benefits the environment by nurturing soil and sequestering carbon. So if you base your diet around pasture raised meat and local produce, you can overcome many of the downsides of industrial farming while benefitting animals and the environment at the same time.
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Re:Squid, octopus, and cuttlefish populations have been risi... by Johnny_Brahms on Friday May 27, 2016 @12:04PM (#11786893)
Well... very few pastures actually store anywhere near that amount of co2. my numbers are based on evaluations of carbon sinks in northern Europe (northern germany and Scandinavia) that my wife did. the publication is in Swedish, but if anyone is interested I can dig it up. The result was that less than 10% of optimal pastures(current and potential) were effective carbon sinks.
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