Re:Earth had hottest 3-months on record; unprecedented sea t...
by acdha on Sunday September 10, 2023 @01:25PM
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> It's absolutely not given that removing beef from our diet would make things much better.
It is - the food input & land requirements are less efficient - and it’s absurd to say that eating pork or chicken instead is so miserable that people won’t abide it.
There's and easier way
In the US, dogs and cats consume about 19% ± 2% of the amount of dietary energy that humans do (203 ± 15 PJ yr-1 vs. 1051 ± 9 PJ yr-1) and 33% ± 9% of the animal-derived energy (67 ± 17 PJ yr-1 vs. 206 ± 2 PJ yr-1). They produce about 30% ± 13%, by mass, as much feces as Americans
Wetlands are responsible for a third of all the greenhouse gases emitted in the atmosphere, followed by agriculture and livestock (in general) at 25%.
It's absolutely not given that removing beef from our diet would make things much better.
Also considering the fact that billions of people have just entered the club of those who can afford eating red meat and won't stop now.
The most likely scenario is that we will slowly switch to other sources of proteins and they will replace us as meat eaters, basically making no change whatsoever in the output.