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Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by kibwen on Sunday June 23, 2019 @09:57AM (#20255518)
Though all meat production is not made equal; beef production is overwhelmingly more emissive per serving (6.61 lbs of CO2 per 4 oz) than pork (1.72 lbs) or poultry (1.26). Even without giving up eating meat, substituting most of your beef meals for chicken would still be a step in the right direction (and is essentially zero-cost, considering that this requires no significant lifestyle changes and anywhere that sells beef is almost certainly also going to sell chicken).

http://css.umich.edu/factsheets/carbon-footprint-factsheet

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Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by JamesBarney on Sunday June 23, 2019 @07:42PM (#20259458)
This might have ethical implications considering how much worse chicken lives are than cows lives and how many more chickens you need to kill per calorie.
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Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by jogjayr on Monday June 24, 2019 @04:12AM (#20261439)
Inaction will lead to climate change killing millions of humans. If someone won't consider eating vegetarian more often, switching to chicken is far better from an ethical standpoint than doing nothing.
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Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by JamesBarney on Monday June 24, 2019 @03:57PM (#20267784)
People killed by climate change 250,000/year

Assuming switching to chicken reduces carbon by 12%, assuming carbon responsible for 250,000 death then meat consumption is responsible 30,000 ppl/year

Number of cows in u.s. 30,000,000 for 3% of global market

US market responsible for 900 deaths / year 140 chickens / cow(calorie wise)

estimated 20 years of life lost per death

18,000 QALY for 4.1 billion more chickens

Rough estimate of 2.3 minutes of human life gained per chicken raised

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Re:Cement Produces More Pollution Than All the Trucks in the... by jogjayr on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @03:15AM (#20282581)
Thanks for doing that calculation. I really appreciate that you put in that much work.

> People killed by climate change 250,000/year

Is that a current number? Or a projection of what might happen with 2 degree or 4 degree Celsius increase in temperature?

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