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Re:Adding a metre between meals boosts vegetarian appeal – s... by OnlyOneCannolo on Saturday August 15, 2020 @01:40PM (#24170654)
It implicitly distorts the contribution of agriculture to greenhouse gas emissions relative to other sources. And it ignores the health effects of going meatless.
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Re:Adding a metre between meals boosts vegetarian appeal – s... by tito on Saturday August 15, 2020 @01:43PM (#24170678)
What most people miss is that methane (ie from cows) is more than an order of magnitude as impactful as carbon dioxide.

This source says methane is 84x the impact of carbon dioxide: https://www.edf.org/climate/methane-other-important-greenhou...

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Re:Adding a metre between meals boosts vegetarian appeal – s... by OnlyOneCannolo on Saturday August 15, 2020 @01:50PM (#24170747)
That article you linked also says that the largest source of man-made methane is the oil and gas industry.
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