Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018)

Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by sweetheart on Thursday May 06, 2021 @10:50PM (#27071499)

> It's also worth keeping in mind that living off plants generally kills more total animals

This is untrue, as the animals you are eating are fed and raised on plants, which are harvested with the machines that potentially kill the field animals. So even accounting for that, fewer animals will die.

Also, animals tend to migrate out of fields during harvesting, and relocate (which is still not good! But better than being ground up by machines)

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Re:Beyond Meat’s Beyond Burger life cycle assessment (2018) by wyager on Thursday May 06, 2021 @11:01PM (#27071601)

> as the animals you are eating are fed and raised on plants

The animals I'm eating aren't fed by slash-and-burn soya or insecticide-grown vegetables.

> animals tend to migrate out of fields during harvesting,

Farmers don't deal with rodents and other pests by encouraging them to migrate.

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