Less Processed Meat, More Plant-Based Foods May Boost Longevity

Re:Less Processed Meat, More Plant-Based Foods May Boost Lon... by moltar on Thursday June 13, 2019 @07:54AM (#20173855)

And during plant collection lots of animals die:

- rodents die in wheat field during harvest

- recently there was an article on HN of olive harvests killing hundreds of birds

- entire forests are destroyed with wildlife by burning to grow palms for palm oil

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Re:Less Processed Meat, More Plant-Based Foods May Boost Lon... by ppseafield on Thursday June 13, 2019 @08:44AM (#20174216)

Right. And raising livestock requires more plants to be grown to feed them, so even more animals die to grow the feed.

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Re:Less Processed Meat, More Plant-Based Foods May Boost Lon... by ShlomoS on Thursday June 13, 2019 @11:35AM (#20175846)

Pasture is not harvested or stored, so there is no rodent or bird deaths from harvesting equipment, and no mass rodenticide usage as there is with grains.

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