Methane rises to highest level on record

Re:Methane rises to highest level on record by DangitBobby on Thursday July 16, 2020 @09:42AM (#23858861)

Keep in mind that it takes much more fertilizer to feed a cow that is then converted to food than it would to just grow the food. The 30% likely doesn't take into account the gigantic portion of fertilizer emissions that wouldn't exist if we weren't feeding so many cows, etc.

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Re:Methane rises to highest level on record by gridlockd on Thursday July 16, 2020 @02:08PM (#23861880)

I'm aware of that, but beef is a vastly superior food than the produce that is fed to the cows. If it was just about calories, you could just drink HFCS all day.

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Re:Methane rises to highest level on record by DangitBobby on Thursday July 16, 2020 @10:04PM (#23866200)

Even with the inefficiency of nutrient variety to support a healthy diet, it would be so.

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Re:Methane rises to highest level on record by gridlockd on Friday July 17, 2020 @04:35AM (#23868478)

I don't believe there's such a thing as a healthy plant-based diet. That's just me speculating though, nobody even knows what a healthy diet is.

From a nutritional perspective however, animals can do things for us that we can't even do in the lab, let alone at industrial scale.

It might be possible to create some sort of fortified plant-based diet that has all the nutrients in a form that the body can actually absorb, but even then, that doesn't mean this is the route free people will go.

Even if you could change western food culture to make people to stop eating animal-based-food in favor of that plant-based Frankenfood, you will not change the food culture of rest of the world, which is shaking its head at white saviorism.

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