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Re:Giving Up Meat Won’t Have Much of an Effect on Climate Ch... by dasd99 on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @08:59AM (#20939582)
this fact:

> requiring 5x agricultural land and fertiliser

can certainly not be paraphrased as:

> marginally more expensive, ecologically

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Re:Giving Up Meat Won’t Have Much of an Effect on Climate Ch... by JoeAltmaier on Wednesday September 11, 2019 @09:12AM (#20939727)
That origination cost is added to the cost of harvest, transportation, refrigeration, distribution etc. Is it then so significant? That's the interesting question.

Because its one cost in a whole column of costs, reducing that entry is what makes it 'marginal'. Meaning, one part of a large total.

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